Example sentences of "happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are , or pretend to be , indifferent to whatever may happen to your reputation . |
| 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 | She was after everything in trousers , young or old , she 'd have had Mr Pepper in the end , you mark my words , and then what 'd happen to the Company ? |
| 4 | It 's just , you 're my idea of someone who this sort of thing would never happen to . |
| 5 | will it happen to me ? |
| 6 | American travellers became stranded in Europe and turned into expatriates or exiles in Henry James 's novels , shadowy amalgamation of foreign manners with shreds of familiar accents that were up to the narrator to decipher , but it could n't happen to her , not in 1928 , even with a crash . |
| 7 | But what will happen to the quality of the product ? |
| 8 | Right or wrong , the incident showed that people cared about what would happen to the Louvre . |
| 9 | ‘ Internally she has to say , ‘ It wo n't happen to me ’ or , ‘ It 's part of the job . ’ |
| 10 | And what , he asks , will happen to the child who does not , bureaucratically speaking , have special educational needs but who never manages to get past Level 2 in any given attainment target ? |
| 11 | He said yesterday : ‘ I 'm sure I had been making inquiries ( in 1945 ) about what would happen to people who we sent back . |
| 12 | Mr Rampton suggested if Lord Aldington had not known what would happen to the Yugoslavs , he was the only person in his corps who did not . |
| 13 | ‘ America is doing very well , there is a lot of liquidity in the market — and what might happen to the market if Hoylake succeeds in its bid for BAT ? ’ asks Mr Tora . |
| 14 | ‘ I could n't bear to think of the future , of what would happen to her when we got old , if we got ill , when we died , or worse — whether she would only live a few years , ’ she says . |
| 15 | What would happen to US monetary policy guided by a Treasury Secretary like Donald Regan , who proclaimed that ‘ deficits do not matter ’ ? |
| 16 | How could it possibly happen to him ? |
| 17 | I remember thinking , well this ca n't happen to me . |
| 18 | Mrs Thatcher was determined that this would not happen to her . |
| 19 | Ensure that you are the one to decide what will happen to everything you own . |
| 20 | Politically , therefore , the inducements to continue what the Plowden Committee call ‘ excessive social services ’ are much stronger than the inducements to discontinue them or to supplement any which may happen to be ‘ inadequate ’ . |
| 21 | What would happen to us all if everyone were to behave like you ? |
| 22 | What would happen to these two women who had done nothing to deserve her evil body and heart between them , what would happen to them when she was dead ? |
| 23 | What would happen to these two women who had done nothing to deserve her evil body and heart between them , what would happen to them when she was dead ? |
| 24 | There was then the decision about what should happen to the foods division . |
| 25 | This has happened to me today , it will happen to you tomorrow . |
| 26 | This does n't happen to mineral waters . |
| 27 | In it , he imagines what would happen to London if it became so choked with cars that no-one could move . |
| 28 | The brochure continues : ‘ A lot of things will happen to you during your time with the Volunteers . |
| 29 | What would happen to him if he were sent packing ? |
| 30 | ‘ What will happen to his small world when it all stops ? ’ she asks . |