Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb mod] happen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean it could be nothing may happen at all may descend on us and everybody 's and we 've run out of money . |
| 2 | Nothing could happen until the evening , but then Lucy got her chance to see the inside of Charlie 's office much sooner than she 'd expected . |
| 3 | But if he wins , it 's possible that something may happen to me . |
| 4 | If something should happen to him , there might be no institution prepared to take over . |
| 5 | the thing is that something must happen to them by the time they reach the age of twenty three that makes us want to marry them . |
| 6 | I mean , if he did go off into the wilds of Anatolia , or somewhere remote like that — something might happen to him in some village , where he is n't known . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Frightened something might happen to me ? ’ he sneered . |
| 8 | He held the sleeping baby and was alternately happy and tortured with fear that something might happen to her . |
| 9 | Something might happen within the next few days . ’ |
| 10 | Det Insp Eddie Muddle , who is leading the hunt for the kidnapper , said : ‘ It was a very traumatic experience but she acted very sensibly by co-operating with her abductor for fear that something would happen to her child . |
| 11 | She just knew , she knew with absolute certainty , that in this vast , noisy , busy city , something would happen to her , and it was bound to be something good . |
| 12 | Something would happen to the L |
| 13 | I think he was frightened something would happen to us . |
| 14 | He would n't give me his name because he was concerned that something would happen to him if he gave me his details . |
| 15 | ‘ Patsy was told by both fortune tellers that something would happen to her before the New Year — that an attempt would be made on her life , ’ he said . |
| 16 | This was only part of a general sort of pattern as it were , where people were beginning to impinge on their lives , there was another well-known local alcoholic there who was knocking on doors trying to get money off people , and there 's several elderly people who gave this woman money , because they were frightened that if they did n't something would happen to them . |
| 17 | None of the Corporals were forthcoming , explaining with a shrug of their shoulders or a smile that everything would happen at Marseilles . |
| 18 | Is there anything immediately that gives you hope that something will happen for the better ? |
| 19 | The film viewer sees a wide range of technical devices — split-screen , slow motion , fast motion , various kinds of fades — that enable the storyteller to indicate that something happened earlier ( the ‘ flash-back ’ ) or that something will happen in the future , or that something is being dreamt or fantasized . |
| 20 | Caspar , who distrusted most magic on principle , thought that probably nothing would happen at all and the evening would end as so many evenings were ending lately ; with the heating of the squares and the terrible screaming of the victims . |
| 21 | The Emperor spoke to him and said that as long as he did not speak to anyone in that underground place , nothing would happen to him . |
| 22 | There have been several kidnappings for ransom recently and I 'm just taking precautions to ensure that nothing will happen to you . |
| 23 | Your wife will be frightened , but nothing will happen to her , of course . |
| 24 | If people are n't interested in , in evaluation of something that concerns them , then nothing will happen at the end of it . |
| 25 | If people are n't interested in an evaluation of something that concerns them , then nothing will happen at the end of it . |
| 26 | ‘ Nothing can happen to a new ship like this . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , I have a bit of trouble at the moment , and if … well , if anything should happen to me , I think Cabochon should know . ’ |
| 28 | If anything should happen to a diver 's umbilical , mask or helmet , this air supply can be used , either through a demand valve , a hose connected by a quick connect , or a hose end fed up through the neck dam of the helmet . |
| 29 | Maisie sat in the corner of the kitchen with one chocolate bar in her mouth , another in her right hand , another in her lap and a fourth beside her on the draining board , in case anything should happen to the other three . |
| 30 | If anything should happen to you … ’ |