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

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1 The best bit 's when the light 's out , and I can listen to her breathing , and if I want to say summat — you know , summat that happened in the day — I can just speak soft and she 'll hear me .
2 To him everything that happens in the natural world is rational through and through and subject to a rigid norm .
3 Everything that happens in your life will naturally bring about a change in you as a person and , to that extent , your future will therefore be affected .
4 His journals , which he has published at regular intervals ( the fourteenth volume appeared recently in France ) bear witness to the enormous interest he takes in everything that happens in the world outside him , and to a human being scornful of bourgeois conformity , almost an anarchist , and a convinced pacifist .
5 An amino acid is a chemical sub-unit of a protein , and ultimately everything that happens in a cell it produces some kind of protein , so you can see that erm the triplet or produces erm which is one of the , one of the er amino acids and so on and there are also punctuation marks U A A or U A G means stop , as does U G A , so when , when a R N A template running through a gets to a sequence which reads , where was it now , U A A it stops reading because it knows it 's got to the end of the gene .
6 This was not done for imperial purposes , but once the navy had been developed it affected everything that happened in English policy .
7 It was true what was said of him — he knew everything , but everything that happened in the hotel , even , it seemed , what took place in the ladies ' lavatories .
8 Everybody working for the Maquis knew about her loss , but no one helped — although their local information gathering was first-class , and they seemed to know just about everything that happened in Paris .
9 John was unlike anyone Anne knew with his views on everything that happened in the world .
10 Write a letter to Sherlock Holmes to tell him everything that happened in chapters 7 , 8 , and 9 .
11 Worried by their absence , it was only when he had contacted the superintendent of the building — who seemed to know everything that happened in the neighbourhood — that he 'd learned exactly what had happened to Laura and the twins .
12 Much useful research can originate from the idea that just turns up , the hunch or the observation of something that happens in the street which triggers off a line of thought .
13 A positive symptom is something that happens in the brain-damaged animal that does n't happen in the normal .
14 It 's just something that happens in my brain . ’
15 You waste time in the present lamenting over something that happened in the past .
16 ‘ Yes , but that 's just something that happened in the outside world .
17 But er unfortunately , this is something that happened in the past and the government have been prosecuted for it , they 've been found guilty , but Blackpool 's name has been dragged way down with them .
18 For her , war was something that happened in other people 's lives , and even the most recent conflicts had failed to win her to the view that war could be , upon occasions , both right and just .
19 The star of the Professionals went on : ‘ Why you want to write about something that happened in 1977 I do n't know .
20 It is so different from anything that happens in the islands today .
21 Whenever we blame luck , fate , circumstances , heredity , our childhood , society , the government , other people or God — for anything that happens in our lives — we are stuck in ‘ victim mentality ’ , and so disempowering ourselves .
22 It is a sensitive area , well placed for keeping an eye on anything that happens in the Thames , and , seaward , in the North Sea .
23 Anything that happens in this town is of interest to me , as it is to you , being in the business of reporting what goes on yourself . ’
24 Did any any of you three see what anything that happened in the first one .
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