Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] what [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might seem a bit academic to worry about what would happen when the universe collapses again , as it will not start to contract for at least another ten thousand million years . |
| 2 | As yet , no one was prepared to worry about what might happen in the distant future . |
| 3 | Your students may have seen you play a sequence without sound then rewind for a second viewing , or pause to speculate about what might happen next . |
| 4 | I could not fail to speculate about what might have happened had Leslie remained in his original regiment . |
| 5 | Professor Hoskins was right to reflect on what might have happened if parliamentary enclosure had taken place today . |
| 6 | ENGLAND B were left to reflect on what might have been after missing a couple of vital tackles in their 20-16 defeat at the hands of South Africa at Bristol . |
| 7 | It is tempting to speculate on what would have been the form of the Foreign Office had this union occurred . |
| 8 | It is the belief of at least some hypnotherapists that the inability of some patients to be hypnotized is due to their subconscious fear that they will be unable to cope with what may come up and that they might go to pieces . |
| 9 | She had tried hard not to think about what might happen to them when the men returned , but , as evening began to draw in , panic fluttered in her chest . |
| 10 | To be honest , I ca n't bear to think about what might happen myself . ’ |
| 11 | She has encouraged me to talk about what happened before I got to that stage , and to think about what might have led up to it . |
| 12 | She did n't want to think about what would happen next until it happened . |
| 13 | Fenella pulled the velvet folds of the cover about her and tried to sleep and not to think about what would happen and whether they would be let out of these rooms and what stories she might have to tell the Gruagach about Star People and the Fire Court and the other fictional places they were supposed to have travelled to . |
| 14 | She focused all her concentration on getting it right , not daring to look at Nathan , or even to think about what would happen next . |
| 15 | He did n't want to think of what would happen if his mother discovered that he had been out of the house . |
| 16 | I ca n't bear to think of what would have happened if I had n't told you . |
| 17 | Folly shook her head , trying resolutely not to think of what might have been . |
| 18 | ‘ I dread to think of what will happen , ’ the Under-Secretary said , ‘ when the Home Rule Bill is passed . |
| 19 | I remembered that they had never flown in a light aircraft before today ; I shuddered to think of what could happen if they panicked . |
| 20 | Leicester , scoring only once more despite concerted attacks , were left to ponder on what might have been . |
| 21 | So , is n't it rather difficult to adapt to what must seem like some of the trivial aches and pains suffered by his patients in England ? |
| 22 | The Committee was generally critical of the universities ' past role , and clearly hoped that the CNAA might be persuaded to take on what might prove to be a very substantial validating function . |
| 23 | Meanwhile conscious awareness is freed to survey the landscape , to plan a route , to talk with fellow cyclists , or to dream on what might have been or what once was . |
| 24 | As coachloads of pensioners arrived at Westminster from around the country on a suitably chilly day to protest about what might happen to their heating bills when V A T's introduced . |
| 25 | He can not equate it with ‘ ought ’ since , according to him , to speak of what one ought to do is simply to speak of what will have the best consequences . |