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Example sentences for "see what would happen"

  • Then Jack let go, and, standing in front of him, waited to see what would happen, while the Englishmen approached nearer and looked on silently.

  • As it was, he crouched round the corner of the shed, and, Mauser in hand, watched to see what would happen next.

  • Darting down the street they came to a turning, and waited there to see what would happen.

  • Accordingly they turned into the farm, and having entered a cattle kraal which was close to the road, they glued their eyes to the chinks between the boulders of the wall, and waited to see what would happen.

  • The Soldier hid himself in a corner, and remained there, hardly knowing whether he was alive or dead, but waiting to see what would happen.

  • He picked up the coffin-lid and remained standing beside his cart, waiting to see what would happen.

  • So he followed his grandfather's advice, provided himself with a bridle and an aspen cudgel, took his seat in a corner, and waited to see what would happen.

  • Reluctantly he obeyed, and stood with the rest watching with breathless interest to see what would happen.

  • He followed the crowd to the store to see what would happen.

  • All were waiting to see what would happen next.

  • Hank was always mixing things to see what would happen and he pretty near blew his house up at one time.

  • They turned and stood there, the whole twelve of them, looking so mad that we stopped running and waited to see what would happen.

  • The rest of us waited to see what would happen to Bill.

  • The landlord, who was no fool, on receiving this strange warning, and seeing the precious stones sparkling through the canvas of the sack, was most anxious to see what would happen if he used the forbidden word.

  • Curious to see what would happen, he took up one of the garments, and leaving his horse loose, to wander about the adjoining fields, he hid himself among some willows and waited.

  • The watches were delivered up to Sumi and they went their way, while I remained behind curious to see what would happen.

  • And so he crawled back to his own piece of seaweed and twisted his tail around it, and waited to see what would happen next.

  • Then he went up on the seawrack again and twisted his tail around it, and hung there with his head down to see what would happen next.

  • So he wound his tail around a stem of seaweed and hung with his head down, waiting to see what would happen next, and then he saw another little sea-horse hanging on another seaweed.

  • Just to see what would happen I inquired about the provision of The Hague Conventions, prescribing that no collective penalty can be imposed for lawless acts of individuals.

  • Just to see what would happen, I went to the telephone after lunch and asked to be put through to the Embassy at London.

  • Just to see what would happen, we then proceeded to put our cable in its original form into cipher, and send it back to the General with a written request that it be sent immediately to Washington.

  • The eldest brother tried to persuade them to remain at least one other year longer, to see what would happen; he was not able, however, to succeed in this.

  • As had been agreed upon, the eldest brother now went out into the field at night; but, instead of going up into the tree as his brothers had done, he lay quietly down on a heap of hay, and waited to see what would happen.

  • Having let the dog free, the youngest brother came back to the kettle, to see what would happen to the water on the fire.

  • Delaherche, too, was curious to see what would happen; his curiosity made him valiant.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "see what would happen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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