Example sentences of "[vb past] what would [verb] if [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I imagined what would happen if I should tear the sleeves out , or cut it up , or run to the kitchen for the tomato-ketchup and pour it all over the bodice ; if I should rip out the collar with my teeth . |
| 2 | I said that I could n't fault their prices , but asked what would happen if I did n't pay . |
| 3 | This is of course what I did — rather than repeat exactly experiments done on mice or rats that other researchers had already reported , I asked what would happen if I tried a similar procedure with my chicks . |
| 4 | First he told them to lay off me , and when they sneered and said what would happen if they did n't , he merely replied , ‘ A series of inexplicable misfortunes . ’ |
| 5 | She said what would happen if you were ill ? |
| 6 | Lili frowned , and I wondered what would happen if I should say that the wedding was cancelled . |
| 7 | I wondered what would happen if I should say that I wished she had n't . |
| 8 | I wondered what would happen if I ignored the call or pretended it was n't me , but I had a strong feeling that they knew it was me . |
| 9 | He wondered what would happen if he swam to her underwater and surprised her , and decided he would probably be imprisoned by Naseby for rape . |
| 10 | Idly , in a detached way , he wondered what would happen if he collapsed in the orchestra pit , dropped dead in the middle of his new production . |
| 11 | He had n't indicated where Faye 's room was , and she wondered what would happen if she needed to monitor her patient during the night . |