Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [vb -s] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 That way , if the worst happens an' they fire the house an' make a run fer it , we 'll drive most of 'em back towards the highway , where we 'll have a reception committee waitin' to meet ‘ em !
2 ‘ And just in case , ’ I said , ‘ in case the worst happens and the horses prove to have been interfered with , I think I 'll take a sample of what 's in the tank and also what 's in their buckets at this moment .
3 ‘ If the worst happens and it spreads I reckon help should have arrived before it gets serious . ’
4 But the worst happens and you reel from it , you stagger , the shock is enormous , and then you begin to recover .
5 Even if the worst happens and you lose your job , your lover , your hair , your hope of a long life , you 're only defeated if you let yourself be .
6 Professor Hirst ( 1973 ) none the less feels that Stenhouse takes too narrow a view of what is meant by " outcomes " , arising from the " engineering approach " which he finds is encouraged by writers such as Tyler , for many years the key author in the field .
7 But it was n't like I 'd imagined — except for the long silences when I 'd been hoping for laughs .
8 My figures were the best estimates that the senior chief inspector and I could make of the numbers required to carry out the policy that I have laid before the House .
9 If the hon. Member for Livingston ever got into power , no doubt we would return to the longer waits that we experienced under the Labour Government .
10 And such displacement and contamination are made possible by that radical interconnectedness between the two which the lower knows and the higher disavows .
11 The highest requires that we think of the international system as a set of norms or purposes which shape the process of history .
12 ‘ A man no more sees and feels the same thing than he hears and feels the same thing . ’
13 Panel a also shows that there are opposite gradients in the horizontal angular subtense of individual chequerboard squares ( from left to right ) to the two eyes , again as a result of the unequal distances to the two eyes .
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