Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill and Kath , along with their loyal staff have put virtually a lifetime 's effort into acquiring the immense amount of stock contained at PAS , and the one thing that really concerns them is that if anything should ever happen to either of them , what would be the future for all the stock ? |
| 2 | It was dispiriting to live with such an example of what might conceivably happen to us . |
| 3 | I never expected them to , I 'll tell you the truth , but then again at that age you do n't think they ever will or it 'll ever happen to you do you ? |
| 4 | Moreover , if the moral judgment which we require to make is one which involves our own personal interest we might reasonably look to the relevant law as representing a less partial view of the matter than our own ; for , without attributing to the law a non-partisan impartiality at variance with most available knowledge about the actual political and legal processes , it might still happen to be less partial and more informed than we are when making judgments about cases which affect us closely . |
| 5 | As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages , let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach , who have passed several days in the company of each other : and who , notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road , generally make up at last , and mount for the last time into their vehicle with cheerfulness and good humour ; since after this one stage , it may possibly happen to us , as it commonly happens to them , never to meet more . |
| 6 | Perhaps , when she 'd grown stronger , she could slip away into the night and keep on 166 walking … after all , what was the worst that could possibly happen to her ? |
| 7 | And even if you think you are in a rock-solid job , it could still happen to you . |
| 8 | ‘ It is the most awful thing that could ever happen to me . |
| 9 | And that that made a big influence on me and I swore it 'd never happen to my kids . |
| 10 | They both probably thought it could never happen to them . |
| 11 | Do you think it could never happen to you ? |
| 12 | Do n't think it could never happen to your child — every year 300 children in the UK die as a result of accidents at home and a staggering 870,000 are treated in hospital accident and emergency departments . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought this could never happen to me — but now I know it already has . |
| 14 | The history of the Community is the history of the pooling of policies previously attributed exclusively to nation states ; so the same may well happen to foreign and security policy . |
| 15 | I never ever thought , my darling , that it would ever happen to me , that a man , a real man , a man with … . ’ she gave a little , happy gurgle , ‘ shoulders , and legs and eyes and things to say … would look at me … . ’ |
| 16 | that nothing rude would ever happen to me again . |
| 17 | It 's just , you 're my idea of someone who this sort of thing would never happen to . |
| 18 | Because farmers , like people in other industries , thought it would never happen to them , the safety angle probably did not assume the importance it deserved . |
| 19 | Like you , these people probably thought an accident would never happen to them . |
| 20 | And he said he would n't be able to cope , but it was in the pretext that it would never happen to us . |
| 21 | I thought it would never happen to me . |
| 22 | This shall never happen to you ! ’ |
| 23 | Also into this category comes fear of death which , although based on genuine reason because obviously it will eventually happen to us all , is quite abstract in healthy people . |
| 24 | But unfortunately companies seem to prefer to believe that ‘ it will never happen to them ’ ; until it does . |
| 25 | He added : ‘ People probably think something like this will never happen to them . |
| 26 | It 's amazing how much we all trust to luck and hope that it will never happen to us . |
| 27 | Because , by obvious reasons that can only happen to one person . |
| 28 | And as those talking in this book illustrate , what has happened to them can easily happen to any girl . |
| 29 | You see , it can even happen to the coolest of dudes . |
| 30 | Again , however , many things can then happen to it ; if it is to produce TL , the electron must recombine with another type of defect , and the recombination process must produce energy in the form of light . |