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"Nottingham Forest players will have been going into pre-season thinking, 'we've got to stay up', whereas Leicester and West Ham will have been thinking about getting back into Europe," Perch says.

From BBC • May 1, 2023

Every time you've seen that hopeful swing of a boot - and you might have seen it a thousand times - Radford will have been going about the rest of his existence.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2015

CHALMERS, who will have been going through a similar pantomime with your gun, will make some decently complimentary remark about it, and each of you will think the other a devilish knowing and agreeable fellow.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 8, 1892 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir