Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time. [from 9th c.]
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On my first day at University, I met the woman who would become my wife.
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1867, Anthony Trollope, chapter 28, in Last Chronicle of Barset:
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That her Lily should have been won and not worn, had been, and would be, a trouble to her for ever.
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1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:
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Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
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2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2-3 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
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Toure would have the decisive say though, rising high to power a header past Kenny from Aleksandar Kolarov's cross.