Example sentences of "[that] [adj] [modal v] happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And these final comments , addressed over the child 's death , seem to justify themselves in the sense that the playwright is speaking not only from experience , but for all the parents who dread that this might happen to them . |
| 2 | ‘ God forbid that this should happen to anyone ever again . ’ |
| 3 | I felt disbelief , and some sense of outrage that this should happen to me . |
| 4 | That this should happen to one he knew and an elder of the church . |
| 5 | ‘ People have got to realise that this could happen to them , ’ says Pauline Hoare . |
| 6 | There is still a real fear among the very old that this will happen to them ( see page 27 ) . |