Example sentences of "one [noun] [pron] would [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One moment he would radiate class and talk about acting with insight and intelligence . |
| 2 | One day he would pour petrol over that snot stained rag then stuff it into Smith 's mouth and set fire to it . |
| 3 | And home he would stamp with his bat beneath his arm , vowing that one day he would become Minister of Agriculture and plough up the whole bally field . |
| 4 | One day he would find Corbett exposed and vulnerable and deal with him in his own sophisticated way . |
| 5 | She had always told him how proud she was of him , that he should work so hard to support his son in a far-off country and how one day she would tell Oreste it was due to his father 's efforts that he had been so well looked after . |
| 6 | One day she would tell Star , the moment when it was right to tell . |
| 7 | That companion of his undergraduate years , who obviously hoped that one day she would replace Vivien , was visiting England during the school vacation . |
| 8 | One day I would sing torch songs in Rio , write five best-sellers in London , have no children , or live in a brownstone in New York , all by myself . |
| 9 | But here 's a toast to all those who played a part in this fall of a climbing journalist : my climbing friends , the helicopter rescue team , the doctors and nurses and our superb National Health Service ( coming from Ebbw Vale I knew one day I 'd have cause to be thankful to Aneurin Bevan ) . |
| 10 | But I knew she was giving a series of lectures somewhere , and they were n't being reported , and there 's only one thing you 'd ask Dot to lecture on , so … ’ |
| 11 | Yet a combination of gut anti-European prejudice and some strange part-ideological , part-mystical belief in a largely bogus economic sovereignty ( witness the events of last week ) prevents her from taking the one step which would give credibility to the fight against inflation . |