Example sentences of "day i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one day I may take you at your word , ’ she said darkly . |
| 2 | Who knows , perhaps one day I may have to play one . ’ |
| 3 | One day I may attempt to buy it back from him . |
| 4 | Who knows , one day I may marry her . |
| 5 | One day I would write it — and them — off the face of the earth … ’ . |
| 6 | On that first brief visit I made up my mind that one day I would return there . |
| 7 | She must have sensed that one day I would be leaving her again , and that nearly broke my heart , knowing the sadness she must feel all too well in my experiences with lovers who never stayed long but left me feeling as if part of me had been torn from my body . |
| 8 | ‘ I do what I can to help and one day I would really like a shop full of Green products . |
| 9 | The next day I would take a brand-new notebook from my bag . |
| 10 | If I had possessed a gun that day I would have shot Frank ; that is how bad I felt . |
| 11 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 12 | Having had to resort to asking passers-by to pull it closed for me , I was worried that one day I would n't be able to get in . |
| 13 | I was asked once if it seemed real to me that one day I would be lifeless inside it . |
| 14 | Little did I know then that one day I would be training a fully grown bird of prey to hunt . |
| 15 | Perhaps one day I would go back to London , and take up my career where I had left off . |
| 16 | Later in the day I would tell Jack the exact distance that the first bunker was from the tee . |
| 17 | If I did it all day I would n't like it — woman 's work is never done , she 's on the go all the time — even before you go to bed , you 've still got something to do — emptying ashtrays , wash a few cups up . |
| 18 | On holiday at my parents ' house in Wales , I locked myself into the ground floor bathroom and swore that one day I would be a paratrooper in the French Foreign Legion . |
| 19 | So great was my obsession that I used to wish that one day I would develop my own American accent . |
| 20 | A profoundly deaf therapist said : ‘ I do feel that if I did n't have this type of job where I 'm meeting different people every day I would withdraw very quickly into myself . ’ |
| 21 | And I decided that next day I would draw an honest sketch of myself , and then one of Blanche Ingram , painting the most lovely face I could imagine , according to Mrs Fairfax 's description . |
| 22 | I knew one day I would get pregnant . |
| 23 | The other day I would n't . |
| 24 | I stored away that plural ; one day I would mimic it to someone . |
| 25 | Deep in my heart there was still hope that one day I would receive a letter saying , ‘ I am alive and I have not forgotten you . ’ |
| 26 | So I would actually do that , but if you 're having pain in the day I would treat that as well . |
| 27 | ‘ As I work with the prints all day I would get so bored if I wore them as well , ’ she once told an American interviewer , who expressed surprise to find her in such plain clothes . |
| 28 | But I believe she always felt that I had leadership potential and that one day I would have great responsibility . " |
| 29 | I stood with the breeze flapping at my collar , watching the spin-drift sand , promising that one day I would write about this place . |
| 30 | Unlike on a school day I would have the chance of getting up at my leisure , for I would begin at ten o'clock . |