Example sentences of "about [pron] [vb mod] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have seen the bloodcurdling letters that he has sent to electors about what may happen if Labour is returned . |
| 2 | On board the steamer the two of them were talking about what would happen to the title if Lord Woodleigh was to die before they had any children , and Lord Woodleigh said — Sven Hjerson 's ears heard it — although now you get the estate . |
| 3 | Right or wrong , the incident showed that people cared about what would happen to the Louvre . |
| 4 | He said yesterday : ‘ I 'm sure I had been making inquiries ( in 1945 ) about what would happen to people who we sent back . |
| 5 | There 's blood in your body , and I get to thinking about what would happen if your blood froze . |
| 6 | I think about what would happen if I did it … |
| 7 | There was also a debate about what would happen to the most dangerous substances in the Windscale cocktail , particularly plutonium . |
| 8 | Birdwatchers had always worried terribly about what would happen to Brownsea after the owner , Mrs Bonham-Christie , died . |
| 9 | Every few years , people in industrial circles murmur about what would happen if supplies were cut off , for political or commercial reasons . |
| 10 | In other chambers men , lords and their retainers sat and gossiped about what would happen next . |
| 11 | If the intention , in the week before the election , was to scare people about what would happen if the Tories won again , it did n't work . |
| 12 | ‘ We always have a laugh about what would happen if these things went to court . |
| 13 | She was a child , he should have thought about what would happen when she went through the usual adolescent trials . |
| 14 | The University had filed for patents , believing that millions of dollars could accrue if test-tube fusion were commercially practical , and the patent lawyers were concerned about what would happen if other groups found out the results and duplicated them . |
| 15 | They had not worried for themselves , only about what would happen to Emily . |
| 16 | Many local folk who earned their living on or from the river were still worried about what would happen in the end , but one man busy in his small yard behind the bustling Tower Bridge Road market did not give international events a second thought . |
| 17 | Some of the designer 's ideas about what would happen and what pupil and teacher activities might occur were : ( i ) children and teachers would be amused by the screen presentation ( ii ) that the screen might dominate the situation ( iii ) that teachers would possibly be engaged in a new activity ( iv ) it could be used across a range of teachers and children ( v ) children would be busy drawing graphs themselves ( vi ) discussion on the interpretation of the graphs would be instigated . |
| 18 | She did n't want to think about what would happen next until it happened . |
| 19 | His famous ancestor , Mbatian , made a prophecy about what would happen after the arrival of the white man . |
| 20 | I ca n't remember what he said — I was too worried about what would happen when he stopped — but he looked supremely confident . |
| 21 | The year before in the Pit , we 'd talked often about what would happen when we went home . |
| 22 | Terry Sangwin , the nurse manager for the medical unit , thought staff in the hospital still needed much more information about what would happen , and she feared the planners did n't realise the impact community care might have on acute hospitals . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Imprisonment has to be seen in the context of the German breakthrough in France , and fears about what would happen in Glasgow on May day 1918 ; it removed him from influence , even though he stood as candidate for the Gorbals in Glasgow in the 1918 election and attracted 7,436 votes against G. N. Barnes [ q.v . ] . |
| 25 | They were worried only about what would happen to the monetary value of the paintings and their business as dealers . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Captain Burrows may have been the head of the household but Mrs Burrows was definitely the heart.Joyce used to have terrible nightmares about what would happen to " all the little children " if God did not answer her prayers to keep mother " safe and well and strong " . |
| 28 | She focused all her concentration on getting it right , not daring to look at Nathan , or even to think about what would happen next . |
| 29 | So although the two models are observationally equivalent they are different in that they make different predictions about what would happen if the economic environment changed . |
| 30 | Sarah talked excitedly about what would happen when I became pregnant — what a wonderful child we would have , and all the things we could teach him . |