Example sentences of "would soon " in BNC.
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| 1 | I assured myself that it would be only temporary and I would soon be in a flat again , but ‘ temporary ’ turned out to be five years . |
| 2 | I was given a couple of interviews straight off which , though unsuccessful , were useful practice and I felt confident that something would soon turn up . |
| 3 | She heard that his flat , to which she foresaw she would soon be invited , was a mixture of Victorian ( the furniture ) and deco ( the mirrors , the glass ) . |
| 4 | As she walked from the post office empty handed , she pretended to be an American tourist , one who could leave in a few days , one for whom the trip would soon be nothing more than a few travel stories and postcards . |
| 5 | By the late 1980s regular trainloads were being dispatched from purpose-built transfer terminals in Greater London , Manchester and Avon , and these would soon be joined by a new flow from Edinburgh . |
| 6 | The ‘ tendentious ’ story would soon be out of the way , making possible a return to what Dostoevsky thought was much more important , the Life of a Great Sinner project . |
| 7 | Such listeners would soon be annoyed were announcements to be made too frequently , at intervals of less than say 20–30 minutes , or if programmes were rudely interrupted . |
| 8 | As the narrator explained that ‘ Jane would soon have to move on ’ , because she was reaching the limit of her maximum stay in the council-owned hostel , we watched her rinse the sink , wipe the draining board and hang up the dishcloth . |
| 9 | Road pricing would soon fail if paying the charges could be as painlessly disregarded as parking fines . |
| 10 | He was also confident that Korea would soon liberalise its domestic market . |
| 11 | Dorothea Wilms , minister for intra-German affairs , and Oscar Lafontaine , Social Democrat prime minister of the Saarland ventured to hope that there would soon be changes in East Germany despite the fact that its leader , had not shown the slightest inclination to budge during the 40th anniversary celebrations and talks with the Soviet president . |
| 12 | Commander Ali said SNM ambushes had prevented supplies reaching them and he was confident that Boroma would soon fall . |
| 13 | He fears motorists are no longer held in high esteem and it was time the Government took steps to limit the amount of damages payable after a traffic accident , otherwise there would soon be no motorists left . |
| 14 | You would soon have lumps on your most tender spot . |
| 15 | The sky was now getting fairly light , and it would soon be stand-to , so there would be no going back into the trench to get the head down again . |
| 16 | That evening is I crouched at the back of the slit trench , swatting the mauses and listening to the sound of shells passing over and the rain dripping steadily in through the entrance to the trench , I stared at the pool of water getting larger and hoped that the rain would soon stop , if it does n't I 'm in for an uncomfortable night . |
| 17 | it was a similar story when Haslam moved to become deputy chairman of ICI Fibres in 1969 with the intention that he would soon take over as chairman . |
| 18 | When he would return , the two would feel even closer than before the quarrel and they would soon be moving about the yard together , chatting away . |
| 19 | She pointed out that the plaster would soon fall away without paint . |
| 20 | without worms the earth would soon become cold , hardbound , void of fermentation and consequently sterile . |
| 21 | The beginning was also a time when I was asked if I , too , would soon let them down ‘ like all the others ’ and when being there was expressed for all by Janet : ‘ I 'm only here because my daughter is the way she is . |
| 22 | The United States would dive in from time to time with a huge splash which , however , would soon subside . |
| 23 | Mr Geremek said as a first step Poland would soon seek full membership in the Council of Europe . |
| 24 | Mr Geremek said as a first step Poland would soon seek full membership in the Council of Europe . |
| 25 | Mr Badran , who took office two weeks ago , said that martial law imposed during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war had been ‘ frozen ’ and would soon be formally scrapped . |
| 26 | The Western hemisphere would soon be in range of and vulnerable to Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles , carrying megaton warheads . |
| 27 | As the 1960s went by , cynics began to observe that barrack building in an overseas territory was a sure sign that it would soon be granted its independence ! |
| 28 | Unlikely , say the drinks companies : given its penchant for regulation , the EC would soon bury them in a pile of new directives . |
| 29 | Though private names could still co-exist in this new world , they would soon be the minority . |
| 30 | Normally , any government trying this sort of trick would soon be being ordered to pay out in the courts . |