Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] happen [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Nothing apparently happened for two months after the Institute 's delegation .
2 In Ardeevan we just lay and rotted and nothing ever happened between Doctor Staples 's weekly rounds – except that someone died .
3 Robin and Jenny were the ones who had adventures , fell walking or sailing on the lake , always coming home with hair-raising stories ; but nothing ever happened to Ruth .
4 Nothing ever happened to him .
5 Nothing ever happened in Broadstairs .
6 Nothing ever happened in terms of stab wounds . ’
7 Once a strip of new ocean floor has been formed , and acquired its magnetic recording , nothing further happens to it , but it continues to move away slowly from the ridge , at a rate of anything up to several centimetres per year .
8 ‘ Perhaps the best we can hope for is to conduct here a kind of uneasy holding operation until something else happens in another place ’ — but in most other respects , certainly in conclusions and prescription , they diverged to the point of confrontation .
9 Everything nice happens to me in the autumn .
10 ( However we should still heed Mr Castro 's warning that nothing now happening in Europe is going to help the desperate problems of the Third World .
11 In the absence of a clock pulse to CK2 , nothing yet happens at the second flip-flop and X2 remains off .
12 She made me promise to destroy them , ‘ if anything ever happens to me ’ , she said .
13 Did anything ever happen to you ?
14 ‘ Has anything ever happened to the messengers ? ’
15 ‘ If anything else happens to me , ’ he murmured , wetting his lips , ‘ look round my house .
16 Anything else happen at this dinner ?
17 Now is anything else happening in the sporting world tonight Mickey ?
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