Example sentences of "[pers pn] would soon be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little did I think I would soon be playing , or trying to play , this one . |
| 2 | The King of Blefuscu , however , replied that I was too strong to be taken prisoner , and that I would soon be returning to my country anyway . |
| 3 | Annabel , who always excited more by her appearance than her standard of play , knew she would soon be going to the ball as Cinderella and she was only playing in the National Championships on a whim . |
| 4 | And if she decided not to renew her contract she would soon be joining the ranks of the unemployed . |
| 5 | He concluded the scene by saying that we would soon be stopping at Newmarket , but that British owners should n't get off the train as they would find no races there . |
| 6 | We tried to tell ourselves that it was all some terrible mistake , and that we would soon be returning home . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I am sure that , if those on the Treasury Bench had been in local government , they would soon be facing surcharges for the abuse of public funds . |
| 9 | Notwithstanding experience and observation , she was still somewhere inside her convinced that if a man and a woman lived under the same roof , even if the roof covered a very large area , they would soon be cohabiting in a sexual sense . |
| 10 | Fr Morrow said he would soon be lodging the same application at Keighley County Court in Mr Bland 's home town . |
| 11 | When asked how he was , he replied ‘ Almost well ’ meaning that he would soon be leaving his feeble body for an eternity of glory with Christ . |
| 12 | The group 's press officer , Mick Houghton , thought it was Gregory 's departure that he would soon be explaining to the press when suddenly he was told Charman was out . |
| 13 | About three kilometres before he reached Fontanellato each morning he began to sound the whistle on the engine to warn us that he would soon be arriving . |
| 14 | Only the realisation that he would soon be arriving at her door finally roused her from her misery , spurred her into action . |
| 15 | John told Anne that this was embarkation leave and he would soon be going to France but warned her not to mention it to anyone . |
| 16 | The company also insisted that he learnt a bit about the business he would soon be running , sending him to work in the busy Birmingham store for a month . |
| 17 | Eleven days after he had taken Estabrook to the encampment in Streatham , Chant realized he would soon be having a visitor . |
| 18 | The result is that if a Japanese firm was systematically making investments using its earnings yield as a measure of the cost of capital , it would soon be making a loss . |