Example sentences of "would ever come " in BNC.

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1 Although Sir Frederick Dainton , formerly a chairman of the University Grants Committee , spoke in 1984 of the need for a ‘ global , school-based assessment including profiles to end universities ' reliance on A levels ' for their admissions selection , it is exceedingly unlikely that entry to higher education would ever come to rely on profiles , or any other in-school method of assessment alone .
2 He never thought that he would ever come to love the rain , but he did now .
3 Until now , he 'd given up hope that such a burgeoning time would ever come again .
4 This was the closest Neil had ever come to Wembley and on the way home that night he came to the conclusion that this was the closest he would ever come in his entire life .
5 So Creggan became interested in the Sweeper , and wondered if he would ever come up to his cage and say something , in the way Men did .
6 Thus 1848 and 1849 were the years of great reform of the Austrian school system ; the defeat of the army by France/Piedmont in 1859 was followed by the establishment of constitutional government ; and the defeat of the army by Prussia in 1866 brought liberalism to as close as it would ever come to full state power and led to the establishment of the dual monarchy the following year .
7 Mandela and Botham — whoever thought that day would ever come ? ’
8 The realisation of her feelings for Rourke had come as a shock , the more so because there was no chance he would ever come to care for her in return .
9 She took up a late cancellation for a holiday and photographed the leaning tower of Pisa ; in Florence sat drinking a cappuccino near the Piazza San Felice , thinking of those two English lovers , the Browning poets , who had lived there ; threw a coin in the Trevi Fountain in Rome , wondering if she would ever come back .
10 I had never supposed , by Jupiter , that that part of the will would ever come to pass ! ’
11 His heart was solid , and if the time would ever come
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