Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [pron] happen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It happens in religion and it happens in politics . |
| 2 | She must wait months , if not years , for an interview with an Entry Clearance Officer at a British diplomatic mission on the Indian subcontinent , go through endless interrogations about such subjects as the colour of the family 's goat or the number of rooms in the house she lives in or how many guests there were at the wedding and what happened on the wedding night . |
| 3 | ‘ She deserves recognition and what happened in court does n't alter that . ’ |
| 4 | He was saved by a radio engineer who had studied in England and who happened to be monitoring the audition . |
| 5 | Right , something there 's something inside the glass bulb and what happens to it ? |
| 6 | We 've er added extra staff in , in er credit control departments where it 's been necessary and by a process of education , at every Pearson seminar we rang home the message of the importance of cash and James provides examples of different methods of operating and the effect it has on cash and what happened to market share ? |
| 7 | This occurred on take-off one evening and I happened to be in the Met Office at the time . |
| 8 | If your master 's away at the race meeting and anything happened to a horse I do n't carry my respons I do n't do it on my shoulders , I go and get a vet . |
| 9 | Interior shots of rare types are scarce , this Heinkel was apparently captured intact by the RAF but what happened to it is not recorded . |
| 10 | If the overlap were to be complete we would have perfect communication : both parties would have identical perceptions and whatever happened in one bubble would happen in the other . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Er I did ask the question as well what what 's going to happen to these trees or what happens to these trees when the City Council removes them and I 've never got an answer yet and I 'm going to keep asking somebody some day will give me an answer . |
| 13 | He nearly kills people and nothing happens to him . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's a mug 's game and I happen to be very good at it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | What happens to your spirit and what happens to your body ’ ? ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ I did n't see Francis or anything happening to him if that 's what you 're getting at . |
| 21 | I mean I think the , I , I think it can effect this , but not that materially erm there are many as you know different provinces round the world and what happens in the C I S is , is obviously very important for the Middle East and so erm it will have an impact . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 25 | The duty officer promised to get in touch but nothing happened for two days . |
| 26 | The essence of the skill lies in diagnosing a mismatch between the designer 's intentions and what happens in the classroom and then deciding if the mismatch is such that modifications in the unit are necessary . |
| 27 | 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 ! |
| 28 | 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 . |