Example sentences of "[to-vb] what [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like to know what would happen then . ’ |
| 2 | And again and again , on my side , I wanted to know what would happen to us . |
| 3 | ‘ If this is what it 's like to be under your protection , I 'd bloody well like to know what would happen if I were n't ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Gradually I got to know what would work , it caught the mood , the shadows held up and the grain was soft , it was like a pastel painting . |
| 5 | You do n't need to see the film to know what 'll happen . |
| 6 | Children read a wide variety of things , from the back of the cereal packet to The Dandy , from a page of the daily newspaper to something written by Roald Dahl , and who is to know what will trigger off ideas , possibilities , expectations , or activity ? |
| 7 | You are entitled to know what will happen if you transgress again . |
| 8 | He writes because ‘ if I do n't write , I suffer ’ ; he writes because he wants to know what will happen in his book ; he is , he says , his ‘ own reader ’ , prey to a phenomenon : automatic writing . |
| 9 | If you are confused about what has happened or curious to know what will happen to a topic , consult the index ; if I have got it right , the index will tell you the story . |
| 10 | He would like to hear any information available on AEAs preferred strategy for privatisation and would like to know what will happen over terms and conditions for staff when Government division and Commercial division diverge . |
| 11 | The trouble is that no-one appears to know what will happen after the Olympics and whether if by then the United Nations ' blacklist will preclude British members of the Tour from competing in certain countries . |
| 12 | Since the Shadow is the complement of our conscious self , it is easy to guess what might lurk in the darkness . |
| 13 | Instead he tried to guess what might have been said . |
| 14 | They came to Corman 's office to establish what would become a lifelong , though intermittent , friendship between them and Nicholson . |
| 15 | It is therefore of importance to establish what will constitute a pecuniary interest . |
| 16 | A contractor could use the actual performance when not working under claim conditions to establish what should have been foreseeable . |
| 17 | The Institute of Employment Research at Warwick University recently carried out a number of macroeconomic simulations to discover what would happen if Britain installed sufficient microelectronic technology to improve its rate of productivity growth by 1 per cent relative to its competitors . |
| 18 | Laboratory experiments were made in the 1950s to discover what might happen to these particular chemical constituents under such conditions . |
| 19 | She digressed , running through in her mind the bag 's contents to discover what could have interested him . |
| 20 | In the meantime we have to find what will suit us best . ’ |
| 21 | Fell wants to simulate loss-of-coolant accident and then use about two-thirds the usual emergency cooling water to mimic what could occur at Sizewell . |
| 22 | Whilst the problematic nature of the traditional pattern by which responsibilities have been divided between them is well recognised , there is little evidence which can be used to evaluate what would happen if other arrangements were tried . |
| 23 | In 1380 it had been the turn of Thomas , earl of Buckingham , uncle of Richard II , to lead what would prove to be the last English expedition to France in the fourteenth century , while in 1383 the religious divisions of Europe were underlined by the sending of a force led by Henry Despenser , bishop of Norwich , into Flanders under the guise of a crusade . |
| 24 | Personality flaws stifle it — and we are left to wonder what might have been . |
| 25 | Afterwards , she was to wonder what might have happened if Mr Sands 's grand party had not turned up . |
| 26 | Neither Jochen Mass nor Patrick Tambay did much to push him towards fresh championships ; his Number One status in the team was assured without effort , and I have often been led to wonder what would have happened if Teddy Mayer had been smart enough to hire a young hot-shot to give Master James a needed shot in the arm . |
| 27 | ‘ You have to wonder what will happen to the trade position when growth really starts to take hold , ’ said Nigel Richardson , economist with finance house Yamaichi International . |
| 28 | It is one of the ‘ ifs ’ of history to speculate what would have happened if Khrushchev had succeeded in getting more of his way — shoe bashing or no shoe bashing at the UN General Assembly . |
| 29 | It is interesting to speculate what would have happened but for the winter of 1709 . |
| 30 | Sea Rover did not have the speed to escape , or the guns to retaliate , but it is interesting to speculate what would have happened if she had been armed or whether she could have been persuaded to stop by less drastic means . |