Example sentences of "day he [modal v] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On board days he would wear a tailcoat . |
| 2 | Some days he would follow a man , a man he 'd just seen in the street , for minutes or for hours , thinking he would go up to him and ask him if he knew the way . |
| 3 | In a few days he will catch a boat for South America . |
| 4 | It 's partly because I 'm so lonely , it 's partly deliberate ( I want to make him relax , both for his own good and so that one day he may make a mistake ) , so it 's part weakness , and part cunning , and part charity . |
| 5 | On Father 's Day he 'll have a lie-in and get loads of presents — a chocolate , a jumper and a T-shirt , which he 'd probably like ‘ Daddy ’ written on . ’ |
| 6 | I knew he had a private hope that some day he might make a book with them . |
| 7 | Even at this stage he was thinking of the day he would bring a murderer into court and his evidence would have to stand up to a hostile defence counsel . |
| 8 | One day he would make a mistake , then she would have him . |
| 9 | Often he would shave it off , but the next day he would have a beard just the same . |
| 10 | They did , I mean the docker at that time of day he 'd take a gallon o beer into work with him . |