Example sentences of "[pron] happen when [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nothing happens when I turn the key . |
| 2 | They say children remember things which happened when they were surprisingly young . |
| 3 | ‘ She told me certain things which happened when you were very small . ’ |
| 4 | But nothing happened when I had her served so she had to go . |
| 5 | ‘ Something happened when I first saw you . ’ |
| 6 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 7 | No it was Mark , I can remember it happening when she |
| 8 | if you I think it happens when you 're worrying about something else in the word and you 're concentrating on something else thinking , Ooh what 's he want here is it going to be an E I or an I E or what . |
| 9 | It happens when you 're |
| 10 | It happens when I try to use the Blend command in CorelDRAW 2.1 . |
| 11 | It happened when we lived in Perth , Western Australia . |
| 12 | It happened when she won a national competition in Brides Magazine . |
| 13 | To explain a social phenomenon is therefore to capture its uniqueness and show why it happened when it need not have done . |
| 14 | It happened when I was forced on to a very low fat diet for health reasons ( I had a gall bladder that grumbled very painfully when I ate fatty food ) . |
| 15 | It happened when I went to Mecca . ’ |
| 16 | It happened when I was standing beside Anne , resting between dances . |
| 17 | It happened when he was off-duty in Cheltenham . |
| 18 | And to think I was such a fool as to let it happen when I was thirty-five ! ’ ’ |
| 19 | Clearly , though , the use of observation schedules is putting more control on the behaviour of the observer , so we may now turn to a consideration of what happens when we go further along that axis . |
| 20 | At one level this is what happens when we refine our perception of concepts such as ‘ insects ’ ( from which everything small that creeps or crawls to the more precise ‘ creatures with six legs and bodies consisting of three elements : body , thorax , and head ’ ) or ‘ the Victorian age ’ , or ‘ freedom ’ . |
| 21 | What happens when we sleep or are unconscious ? |
| 22 | But that is precisely what happens when we expect plants to live and thrive , not as nature intended , but on chemical fertilizers . |
| 23 | Right , because the body is acting in order to protect its vital organs and it 's drawing the blood vessels near the skin , shut down , you 're not needed there , you 're needed here , in the core of the body , because your blood is what warms your skin up , it 's taken away from the skin , then the skin feels cold and clammy , yeah , clammy because of course if there 's no heat , we sweat all the time and especially if somebody 's had an accident or is seriously ill they will be sweating , yes , then there 's nothing to dry the sweat off okay , what happens when we sweat excessively in the summer time ? |
| 24 | Observe now what happens when we attempt to set up an equation like 6 using a portion of a sentence which is clearly not a semantic constituent . |
| 25 | It goes a bit weird so we 'll leave that for a while let's have a look at erm what happens when we 're doing times . |
| 26 | What happens when we 're doing times now you did two sets of twelve did n't you ? |
| 27 | Economists can then theorise about what happens when we remove those assumptions one by one . |
| 28 | One O one N , okay so let's see what happens when we try a hundred and one times twenty seven , that just means that N equals seven . |
| 29 | What happens when we expand ? |
| 30 | Let us consider what happens when we fractionally distil a two-component mixture with composition XA(C) ( see figure 6.17 ) . |