Example sentences of "that [pron] would one day " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Raglan Road on an autumn day I saw her first , and knew That her dark hair would weave a snare that I would one day rue I saw the danger , then I walked along the enchanted way And I said let grief be a falling leaf At the dawning of the day … |
| 2 | But his lack of affection for her did n't lessen her love for him , nor did she give up hope that she would one day be able to make him feel genuinely fond of her . |
| 3 | His eyes did not leave the view as he said , ‘ Did you ever think when you were living in that flat in Manchester that you would one day own all this ? ’ |
| 4 | The Ali Watch : how absurd that it would one day drop down here on a little hospital on Hilton Head Island , South Carolina . |
| 5 | Furthermore , he proclaimed that he would one day rule again over the Roman Empire , that he would vex dishonest priests , and that he would not cease from battle until the Holy Land was delivered into Christian hands . |
| 6 | He confessed that he had ‘ missed playing Test cricket over the past couple of years ’ but had never lost the belief that he would one day play for his country again . |
| 7 | Ask the thousands of FOBs — friends of Bill — why they have long thought that he would one day be a great president and their replies will sooner or later share the same point . |
| 8 | At the age of twenty-one , after some years as a clerk in a dry goods store , Marshall went to Chicago , telling his sceptical boss that he would one day own a store so big that the doors alone would be worth more than the boss 's entire business . |
| 9 | Perhaps the knowledge that he would one day die actually gave the poet comfort . |