Example sentences of "would [verb] [num] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | He forgot for a moment that it was pot and thought of nicotine , and then of cancer , cells in delirium , the inroads that living would make one day even on this varnished little icon of the exempt : the flab of tiredness , children , overwork , sitting up too late at night listening to people , indulging buoyant childish appetites as a device to sustain good nature against foreshadows of the senile self . |
| 2 | ‘ But , I mean to say , I did always think I would inherit one day , with Jack being such a confirmed … ’ |
| 3 | His eyes gleamed ; he smiled as he recited what it would do one day . |
| 4 | I would choose one day with you , |
| 5 | The therapist helped them to agree to carry out mutual tasks which were that they would spend one day out together during the next weekend and visit a friend together on another day during the week . |
| 6 | Most of the weekend exercises started off with a para drop on to a drop zone somewhere in the British Isles , after which we would spend two days marching with large packs , practising attacks and fieldcraft . |
| 7 | He hurried her out of the restaurant and she took a last look at the castle as he drove past , promising herself she would return one day . |
| 8 | Here , then , in a temenos , a holy place , cut off from the profane , she would have ten days of solitude . |
| 9 | Aunt Sarah was right in saying that it would take five days to reach Liverpool , since the barge could go no faster than the horse which pulled it . |
| 10 | Ten weeks of fighting had achieved what Haig had calculated would take two days . |
| 11 | He estimated it would take three days a week for nine months or so , but it turned out to be very much a full time job . |
| 12 | We knew it would happen one day . ’ |
| 13 | Sometimes he said he knew it would happen one day . |
| 14 | Thomas requested a postponement of the Senate vote so that the charges could be investigated , and it was agreed that the judiciary committee would hold three days of public hearings from Oct. 11 to 13 . |
| 15 | The war , she told herself , would end one day , but love was timeless and she would fight for it , just as she would fight to give her child his father 's company . |
| 16 | She had always known this moment would come one day . |
| 17 | It seemed as if all the magical power in the world was being trapped in the centre of the storm that would last three days . |
| 18 | Presidential campaigns would last 21 days , and ( unlike at present ) presidential and legislative elections would not take place simultaneously . |