Example sentences of "happen now " in BNC.

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1 The best thing that could happen now would be for the scheme to be killed by another backbench Tory revolt , like the rebellion which quashed Sir Keith Joseph 's 1985 effort to make student fees income-related .
2 The best thing that could happen now would be for the scheme to be killed by another backbench Tory revolt , like the rebellion which quashed Sir Keith Joseph 's 1985 effort to make student fees income-related .
3 I suppose anything can happen now . ’
4 After obtaining first the engaged tone and then the unobtainable tone — that would not happen now after privatisation — the caller was finally connected to an answerphone which said : ‘ This is Tim and Bridie Wallis 's number .
5 Oh God , she thought , that this should happen now and himself away .
6 I do n't know what will happen now , I suppose she will get a lawyer and I will be shafted . ’
7 ‘ What will happen now , mama ? ’
8 Even the boys wondered what would happen now .
9 What would happen now ?
10 It 's sometimes worth asking that nagging little voice what is really the worst thing that can happen now ?
11 Mr Haselhurst said : ‘ I think on all the previous evidence the last thing that will happen now will be a fall in unemployment . ’
12 What will happen now ?
13 That does n't happen now — so pets sometimes take the place of those other relations because we crave interaction with others .
14 In theory he had been prepared for it all along , but that it should happen now , right now …
15 There are aspects of practice in Michael 's case which probably would not happen now .
16 I hope that 's not a presage of what 's gon na happen now .
17 Surely nothing more could happen now .
18 ‘ So you 're saying that could n't happen now ? ’ she said challengingly .
19 Anne had wondered what would happen now to Margaret and Molly and if they would be allowed to stay in the house , but Margaret confided that the death of the Misses Dolan had solved a problem for her .
20 ‘ It was planned ages ago and it was going to be a big do , but I do n't know what will happen now . ’
21 She 's partly awed by it , and partly cocky , saying on the one hand the sorts of things anyone would say ( ‘ I could n't believe it , all those pictures , all those words , all those newspapers ’ ) and on the other hand she says , in drawly , party-sophisticate tones , ‘ Is n't it funny how men defend their clubs ? ’ or ‘ Anything could happen now
22 Wh What things could happen now in nineteen ninety three which would make fair trade better .
23 ‘ What will happen now , do you think ? ’
24 Wycliffe did not answer and after a pause Maurice went on : ‘ What will happen now ? ’
25 ‘ And if it 's just personal feeling , it 's difficult to see why it should happen now .
26 ‘ I had n't forgotten , and I 've come round to being sorry that you do , but as it 's unlikely that the hatred is going to change , and since we both know that this is ultimately inevitable , it might as well happen now . ’
27 But that kind of thing does n't happen now .
28 I do not know what will happen now .
29 What 's gon na happen now ?
30 That will not happen now .
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