Example sentences of "[pron] would happen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Det Insp Eddie Muddle , who is leading the hunt for the kidnapper , said : ‘ It was a very traumatic experience but she acted very sensibly by co-operating with her abductor for fear that something would happen to her child . |
| 2 | She just knew , she knew with absolute certainty , that in this vast , noisy , busy city , something would happen to her , and it was bound to be something good . |
| 3 | Something would happen to the L |
| 4 | I think he was frightened something would happen to us . |
| 5 | He would n't give me his name because he was concerned that something would happen to him if he gave me his details . |
| 6 | ‘ Patsy was told by both fortune tellers that something would happen to her before the New Year — that an attempt would be made on her life , ’ he said . |
| 7 | This was only part of a general sort of pattern as it were , where people were beginning to impinge on their lives , there was another well-known local alcoholic there who was knocking on doors trying to get money off people , and there 's several elderly people who gave this woman money , because they were frightened that if they did n't something would happen to them . |
| 8 | None of the Corporals were forthcoming , explaining with a shrug of their shoulders or a smile that everything would happen at Marseilles . |
| 9 | Caspar , who distrusted most magic on principle , thought that probably nothing would happen at all and the evening would end as so many evenings were ending lately ; with the heating of the squares and the terrible screaming of the victims . |
| 10 | The Emperor spoke to him and said that as long as he did not speak to anyone in that underground place , nothing would happen to him . |
| 11 | Whatever was to happen to him would happen without any provocation on his part , and nothing he did in conciliation could ward it off . |
| 12 | Aye , now , wait a moment , wait a moment show common sense , if , if , if it 'd happen in America in five minutes there 'd be a hundred bloody policemen out there |
| 13 | ‘ It would happen to Howard ! |
| 14 | He had never dreamed that it would happen to him . |
| 15 | Rosemary Burns never thought it would happen to her . |
| 16 | ‘ Never thought it would happen to me ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You always read about others getting these awards , but I never thought it would happen to me . ’ |
| 18 | I never thought it would happen to me ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I never thought it would happen to me , but I have been left quite a large sum in a will . |
| 20 | Everyone they knew was so amazed — ‘ I never thought it would happen to you ! ’ |
| 21 | No , well except that it would , it would happen to some extent , I mean the key is whether you , whether or not when a complaint comes in whether you can assess that it 's likely to go |
| 22 | Just praying er just praying that it would happen for her . |
| 23 | er just praying er just praying that it would happen for her . |
| 24 | And hopefully it would happen before too long . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | But what would happen about that loan if you were unable to meet the repayments ? |
| 27 | But what would happen about that loan if you were unable to meet the repayments ? |
| 28 | Considering the walking legs as two limbs of a compound pendulum , one straight , the other jointed , McMahon computed what would happen at various velocities and limb lengths , applying the classical mechanical equations of the early-19th-century mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange . |
| 29 | BES companies lasted for a minimum of five years , and shareholders were interested in what would happen at the end of this period . |
| 30 | " When I discovered I was pregnant , Michael was more worried for me and what would happen at school and with my mum than anything else . |