Example sentences of "and [pron] happen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He nearly kills people and nothing happens to him . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't understand what he meant , and nothing happened for a few weeks , so I did not feel so worried . |
| 3 | And Joe waited , cruelly , and nothing happened at the other end of the line . |
| 4 | I was last on the County Council between nineteen eighty one and nineteen eighty five , and I was on the Gipsy Working Party at that time , and nothing happened except scandalous public meetings where officers were , were allowed to be crucified by Conservative chairpersons and not a site appeared , public or private . |
| 5 | This occurred on take-off one evening and I happened to be in the Met Office at the time . |
| 6 | Oh and I happened to be standing in the back kitchen you know and I got hold of this saucepan and I picked my little brother up and put him under my arm in case he got hurt and I oh I belted my father from his head to his feet with the saucepan . |
| 7 | He was exiting the Commons Chamber at the end of Prime Minister 's Question Time and I happened to be walking along the corridor which he was entering . |
| 8 | That 's not too bad actually except the day the young men loaded it back onto the trailer when we 'd finished and it was one of these corners , and I happened to be muggins on the corner where that lever was , and he had n't tied it , it was only in the ratchet , you know , he should have tied it of course . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's a mug 's game and I happen to be very good at it . |
| 10 | I know Gilbert Racy and I happen to be on holiday in Hereward 's parish . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I guess I threw myself at you because of everything that had happened between Jonathan and myself ; I guess I was just looking for a diversion and you happened to be in the right place at the right time . ’ |
| 12 | If you'se happen to be comin' here to Dublin at some time or other in the future — which praise the Lord you will be , for t is God 's own city — and you happen to be driving down O'Connell Street and you see me standin' here like dis , with me arms up ; then whether I 'm here or not , you stop . ’ |
| 13 | Right , that was a very big statement , the youth of the world and you happen to be the youth of the world , there 's a lot of you , so how , there you are , you 're in charge of the world , how are you going to do just that ? |
| 14 | I 'll grantcha if you 're a citizen of the union living in South America , the West Indies or the Pacific and you happen to be a member of the French colonies , you 'll have a vote in the European parliament in the elections . |
| 15 | I know it 's not something that most of you are used to talking on a day to day basis , and if you go back to your workplace and you happen to be in a very male dominated workplace , it 's not necessarily gon na be the easiest thing to broach with your colleagues when you get back . |
| 16 | He was saved by a radio engineer who had studied in England and who happened to be monitoring the audition . |
| 17 | I returned to the spot where my home once stood , looked affectionately at Tony 's bright plastic ball in the knot of pampas , and left a plastic message pad beside it with a message for Mina , in case the area does a timeslip again and she happens to be there . |
| 18 | And she happened to be a Christian . |
| 19 | I could n't see many people ; most of the lights had been turned off , and we happened to be sitting in the patch of light thrown by one small lamp . |
| 20 | We happened on some good 'uns , and we happened on some sort of funny ones when we goo round . |
| 21 | Anything and everything happens around the kitchen table , and if anything nasty occurs , it is aired , talked about and solved . |
| 22 | This is especially evident when there is more than one sergeant and there happens to be a clash of personality and leadership style between them , although senior managers within the station are sensitive to this sort of problem and switch sergeants about when it occurs . |
| 23 | The first one is called geometrical isomerism in some books not that you ever read , will read any chemistry books but just in case you stumble over one day and fall flat on your face and there happens to be a chemistry text book open and you ha , just happen to read one or two of the words as you go unconscious and in Matthew 's case if you wake up ! |
| 24 | It was alleged that at first the railway company denied that they had been travelling on the train at all , and it was indeed suggested that the two children were chance victims of the holocaust and they happened to be wandering by the railway at the time . |
| 25 | This is the first time I 've had someone round to tea in years , and it happens on the very day I become homeless . |
| 26 | Alternatively , it can refuse to accept the whole risk — this is common in car insurance and it happens in practice after thefts in which a considerable mess is created . |
| 27 | It happens in religion and it happens in politics . |
| 28 | We know much more than anyone could possibly want to know about Bill and Hillary 's sex life er than we do er about prospects for economic recovery and this has happened to successive American presidents and it happens in part because in the U S the president and his family , and it has been a his so far , the president and his family take the part , not only the part played in England by the prime minister , but also the part played by the monarchy . |
| 29 | I think at this stage we could define for Sandra though , so that we ensure that this does happen and it happens throughout , as and when things run out . |
| 30 | And it happened towards the end of a lunch or dinner . |