Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [adj] day " in BNC.
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1 | Hakim said he never knew what it was going to be used for next ; on an organisation chart he left a column for Africa , since North had hinted that he might one day do something there too . |
2 | The appointment of court organist there was finally offered to Mozart , with the indication that he might one day become Kapellmeister . |
3 | He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 . |
4 | John , like Clement , worked hard to secure the king at home and abroad so that he might one day embark on the crusade : the barons , the Scots , and the French were all pressured by John on Edward 's behalf . |
5 | But underneath this camp humour lay the constant dread that he might one day incur conviction and imprisonment . |
6 | He might one day get it into his head to dismiss Tom . |
7 | Furthermore , he proclaimed that he would one day rule again over the Roman Empire , that he would vex dishonest priests , and that he would not cease from battle until the Holy Land was delivered into Christian hands . |
8 | After his arrest he threatened officers by drawing his finger across his neck to suggest he would one day kill them . |
9 | He confessed that he had ‘ missed playing Test cricket over the past couple of years ’ but had never lost the belief that he would one day play for his country again . |
10 | Ifor the idol he would one day have to dislodge . |
11 | Ask the thousands of FOBs — friends of Bill — why they have long thought that he would one day be a great president and their replies will sooner or later share the same point . |
12 | At the age of twenty-one , after some years as a clerk in a dry goods store , Marshall went to Chicago , telling his sceptical boss that he would one day own a store so big that the doors alone would be worth more than the boss 's entire business . |
13 | Perhaps the knowledge that he would one day die actually gave the poet comfort . |
14 | He kept thinking of Jelka , and of the grandchildren he would some day have . |
15 | It may be predicted with confidence that he will one day be one of the greatest masters of his art . |