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Example sentences for "should soon"

  • I was assured by General Patrick that they should be sent along with me to Washington, in the care of the officer in charge, and he hoped and expressed the belief that I should soon be free and get possession of them.

  • However, I consoled myself with the reflection that I should soon be able to get away to my home in the North.

  • I dreaded being suspected as an enemy in concealment more than to be sent out on the streets of Richmond, though I was so poor that I should soon starve, because too weak to attempt any kind of work.

  • We should soon tread a friendly deck, and share again a sailor's home on the deep.

  • What we should soon witness of Arctic Winter.

  • On the other hand, he believed that if they were, after a series of reverses and before any success, to yield all the Boers asked for, they would be so overbearing and quarrelsome that we should soon be at war with them again.

  • Everybody knew that we should soon be dismissed, and everybody knew that the liberals would have a majority, but the size of it was beyond prognostication.

  • These changes in the character of the country convinced me that we should soon arrive at some more important one.

  • This outer feature prevented our seeing the north-west horizon until we gained an elevated part of it, whence it appeared that we should soon have to descend to lower ground than that on which we had been travelling.

  • In that case you must go to Parma alone with the captain, for I feel that, if I accompanied you any further, I should soon be the most wretched of men.

  • I went to get my cloak, said good-bye to my little wife, telling her that I should soon return.

  • Though I was in my father's native city, I had no acquaintances there, but I knew that I should soon find my way.

  • Andre Dolfin, the proveditore-generale, who promised me again that I should soon be promoted to a lieutenancy.

  • For, if these losses continued a few days longer, we should soon be compelled to abandon all the baggage and continue our journey on foot.

  • Here the silver stream of rupees flowed away without intermission, but I consoled myself with the thought that we should soon be in a country where, with the best will in the world, we could not spend a farthing.

  • He told me at parting, that he should soon write; and he spoke in a manner which seemed to promise me many particulars that could not be given now.

  • But he was confident that he should soon be rich: full of life and ardour, he knew that he should soon have a ship, and soon be on a station that would lead to everything he wanted.

  • He repeated the boatswain's advice to Grey and me, and told us that if we followed it we should soon be well.

  • He laughed, and wished me good night, advising me to make the most of my time, as I should soon have to keep watch again.

  • We found, however, that we should soon have a good opportunity of gratifying our pugnacious propensities.

  • I should soon be smothered by such repeated immersions.

  • Though slowly, I perceived that the hollow was getting deeper and deeper; the stave could not be more than an inch in thickness: surely I should soon be through it?

  • As I had not committed any crime, I was quite at ease; I knew that my arrest must be the effect of a slander, and as I was aware that London justice was speedy and equitable, I thought I should soon be free.

  • As I was obliged to keep to my bed for a few days, I knew that I should soon get my health again; but my chief consolation was that at last I was cured.

  • I calmed myself by saying that this strong impression was due to novelty, and by hoping that I should soon be disenchanted.

  • Duppo, since he had finished eating, had been busy scraping away at some of the monkey bones, and he now produced several, with which he intimated he should soon be able to manufacture some hooks.

  • Our leader was already near the edge, and I hoped we should soon be in safety, when I heard Ellen utter a shriek of terror.

  • We drove on, and I thought we should soon be on the other side; but I found that we had not got nearly into the centre of it.

  • They, believing that I should soon be back, did not follow, and I was soon out of their sight.

  • From the information I gained, too, it seemed likely that we should soon be shifting our camp, and we could scarcely expect to reach a place from which we were so likely to make our escape as where we now were.

  • Just as they were going I said that I should soon be coming to Soleure to thank them for the distinguished reception they had given me, as I proposed leaving in a few days.

  • As I retired to rest I felt that I was in love, and foresaw that I should soon be under the rule of my charming housekeeper.

  • I thanked him, and after he had pouched the double-louis I slipped politely into his hand, he went away assuring me that I should soon experience an improvement in my health.

  • Unless I misjudge myself, I should soon tire of perpetual summer.

  • Just as I was prepared to bid them farewell, he gave a deep sigh; and said 'he thought he should soon come to London.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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