Example sentences of "[indef pn] could happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing could happen until the evening , but then Lucy got her chance to see the inside of Charlie 's office much sooner than she 'd expected . |
| 2 | It was only much later that it hit me and that was more shock than something could happen again . ’ |
| 3 | So you leave them naive and stupid and then something could happen and they |
| 4 | By then , anything could happen . |
| 5 | With any of these two about , anything could happen , and usually did . |
| 6 | You feel anything could happen . ’ |
| 7 | Her mind refused to believe that anything could happen the first time one had intercourse . |
| 8 | I have had to send the girls home because anything could happen and their safety is paramount . |
| 9 | In election year , anything could happen , and because January is traditionally the month for hopes and dreams , here are a few of mine . |
| 10 | No one knows if this is the final chapter or not , but judging by the story so far , anything could happen . |
| 11 | ‘ Anything could happen before then . ’ |
| 12 | Almost anything could happen . |
| 13 | And besides , anything could happen yet . |
| 14 | Jesus ! anything could happen . |
| 15 | ‘ Anything could happen to her out on those hills alone , anything … ’ |
| 16 | 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 … |
| 17 | " Good God — yes — anything could happen , " Dada said anxiously . |
| 18 | Not until the 1760s did Britain begin to live down her reputation ( based on the violence of the period 1640–1714 ) as an inveterately turbulent and factious country where almost anything could happen . |
| 19 | ‘ What I 'm gon na do is … ’ ( he raises one finger then looks at it suspiciously , as though it may attack him or at worst disagree with him ) ‘ What I 'm gon na — what I 'm planning — ; all things being — ( thirty-second meaningful pause ) ‘ I mean , anything could happen , right ? |
| 20 | Why , anything could happen in her nightmare . |
| 21 | A cup of wine and a pretty girl in an empty room and anything could happen . |
| 22 | Gumboots and Pearls is the story of army officers ' wives continues and after four anything could happen when the goody and the baddy meet head on . |
| 23 | Anything could happen at any time . |
| 24 | Anything could happen on the last hole at Royal St. George 's , with its six bunkers , the out-of-bounds line twelve yards beyond the green and the ever-present Duncan 's Hollow . |
| 25 | Lukic and Newsome 's nerves were throughly shot , however , and there were several Newsome-Lukic 1-on-1 's where it seemed anything could happen . |
| 26 | Anything could happen . |
| 27 | Anything could happen under a general anaesthetic , could n't it ? |
| 28 | But you understand that anything could happen to change it . ’ |
| 29 | At her age , anything could happen , but this condition , once it 's operated on , should n't cause any more problems . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ When you are carrying a lethal load like that anything could happen whether or not police are looking after it . ’ |