Example sentences of "[vb infin] what [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 We can describe what would happen in an elaboration of Cairns-Smith 's description of his hypo experiment .
2 You do n't know what may happen to him .
3 well I can remember him skinny from school , I can , what was you saying you do n't know what 'll last ?
4 I just ca n't see it ending at all and I do n't know what 'll happen when John gets out .
5 Dr because for all that , she says well I do n't know what 'll happen .
6 I could n't have shot any worse I do n't think so I do n't know what 'll happen .
7 If I 've lost it , I do n't know what 'll happen .
8 We wo n't ever know what might have been if the two had met .
9 You do n't know what might have crawled in there for warmth during the night , ’ he advised .
10 ‘ We do n't know what might happen , ’ she said , trying to be firm .
11 If you keep believing in yourself , you do n't know what might happen .
12 You do n't know what might happen , ’ Ashley said happily , spreading her hands .
13 But you need some of this time when there 's nothing to do , and , you do n't know what might happen .
14 For him to brush it off in such a way — I do n't know what would make him say things like that , he 's the sort of man I just would n't expect to have …
15 When one quiet weekend this February Mr Grosz left the country on a short trip to Switzerland , little did he know what would await him on his return .
16 Otherwise I would have been sent back to my country and I do not know what would have happened to us . ’
17 If he had n't been put into the jail , I do n't know what would have been the result today but … before he even had his jail sentence served , applications were coming in from town an in that short space of time about 1966 , our church more than doubled in membership and in churches .
18 If Uncle had n't been there to support me I do not know what would have become of me .
19 We ca n't know what would have happened if it had tried something else , nor ( and this is important ) what would have happened if someone else had tried the original solution .
20 I do n't know what would have been if I 'd stayed .
21 Simone 's gran , Gwen Turner , said : ‘ If it had n't been for the prompt action of these two ambulancemen I do n't know what would have happened .
22 Well I do n't know what would have happened to me .
23 The difference is that we did n't know then what we know now , we did n't know what would become of us ’ ; or ‘ We were so young and spilling over with everything inside ’ .
24 She added that she did n't know what would become of the family now that her brother was no longer around to take care of them .
25 I do n't know what would happen .
26 She did n't know what would happen , she did n't know what was happening now .
27 Do you know what would happen to us if we got caught with this stuff ?
28 They did not know when accident or sickness would hit them , and though they knew that some time in middle age — perhaps in the forties for unskilled labourers , perhaps in the fifties for the more skilled — they would become incapable of doing a full measure of adult physical labour , they did not know what would happen to them between then and death .
29 I do n't know what will happen . ’
30 Why , you do not even know what will happen tomorrow .
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