Example sentences of "something [vb mod] go " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the fact that polite letters of rejection are a matter of common courtesy there is also the more pragmatic point that something may go wrong with the new arrangement — the employee may change his/her mind , become ill , move away unexpectedly , take up another job at the last minute . |
| 2 | Now at this st this stage usually the do-gooders who do n't know any better and put and insist that something should go in the mouth and it should n't , you never ever put anything in anybody 's mouth at all . |
| 3 | They were deeply involved in the welfare of their families — apprehensive that something might go wrong . |
| 4 | No-one slept that night , worried something might go wrong . |
| 5 | They adopted the time-honoured device of spending the night together at an hotel , but Herbert , nervous that something might go wrong , overtipped the chambermaid , who then through misplaced gratitude would not give the required evidence against him . |
| 6 | And the third servant says Well no if I if I go out and buy something something might go wrong and I 'll lose the talent , and so he hides it away in the drawer . |
| 7 | ‘ Because she was premature , as they were pulling at this thing I was thinking , ‘ Do n't touch … ’ , and one worries that something might go wrong , and then there 's this tremendous sense of relief , and elation and exhaustion . |
| 8 | But what are the chances that something might go horribly wrong ? |
| 9 | Now four English teenagers are dead following a canoeing accident off the Dorset coast , intensifying the concerns of parents all over Britain as they watch their children set off with their mates , while wondering what the chances are that something might go horribly wrong . |
| 10 | Something might go wrong . |
| 11 | Something might go wrong . |
| 12 | Something 'll go up on that land behind the house . |
| 13 | I guarantee something 'll go . |
| 14 | Each surgeon has his own way of doing things and I know something could go wrong . |
| 15 | And I 've been wondering if something could go wrong with the telephone system of Foulness . " |
| 16 | ‘ Taking this into account it is feasible that something could go wrong . ’ |
| 17 | Skiers there said there was always a chance something would go wrong . |
| 18 | On the first occasion something will go well , but maybe after a time you will see that it was not right . |
| 19 | I always have a premonition that something will go wrong : either that the plane will blow up or crash . |
| 20 | The tube I was in on Wednesday had to go slowly through a deserted and evacuated Victoria Station and one 's heart beats a little fast wondering if something will go off . |
| 21 | Such people , in Clarke 's view , exhibit either a failure of nerve or of imagination , History is littered with examples of eminences who said such items as the aeroplane or the telephone were impossible , Yet Clarke himself demonstrates , unwittingly perhaps another well-known human maxim : if something can go wrong , it probably will , Thus in his 1962 edition , he predicts that nuclear rockets , translating machines and efficient energy storage devices would be around by 1970 . |
| 22 | ‘ Even when you do everything right , there is a possibility that something can go wrong with them . ’ |