Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were all over the place , trying to lean on you , trying to make out that they cared about what happened to you . |
| 2 | They were all over the place , trying to lean on you , trying to make out that they cared about what happened to you . |
| 3 | I ca n't answer for what happens to the horses there . ’ |
| 4 | It 's as if Tom Robinson ( the negro ) has no say in what happens to him and a white woman has the right to push him around and refer to him as nigger , overpowering him in all senses of the matter . |
| 5 | it 's your own body and you have got some say in what happens to it , or what does n't happen to it . |
| 6 | ‘ Labels ’ seemed to be highly constraining ; once applied , the receivers seemed to have little say in what happened to them . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't know , but to guess from what happened to the people before you , you will be sent to Germany . |
| 8 | Research should focus on what happens to children when a parent infected with HIV dies and on the role of fostering and adoption services . |
| 9 | This chapter looks at what happens to our bodies as they grow older , and how our different systems are affected by illness and disease . |
| 10 | Tonight Mike Rowbottom looks at what happens to the prisoners after they leave Grendon , in the final part of his series , Inside Story . |
| 11 | And they know about what 's happening to them , and know that at the end of the day , it does n't matter about what their behaviour is , it does n't matter about what happens to them , because nobody cares . |
| 12 | He comes into close contact with both a teacher and other children of his own age and many of his future feelings about himself will result from what happens to him at this time . |
| 13 | ‘ Listen to what happened to me , ’ I said , and I told my story a third time . |
| 14 | The composition of a team depends on who happens to be doing what at the time . |
| 15 | Researchers are now looking at what happens to pesticides and industrial organic solvents , which will probably be the next threat to groundwater quality . |
| 16 | ‘ I was real sorry to hear about what happened to your family , Mike — ‘ |
| 17 | When you know that they are sort of negative and they do n't really talk to you as a person , you know that they 're not really bothered about what happens to you . |
| 18 | So I think we have to do them , but I think it is very important that we do not erm , er talk to the , or communicate with the other member authorities in a way that looks as if this is Wiltshire saying , well we want to find a way of flogging off this asset without worrying about what happens to the future of the service . |
| 19 | ‘ I am still waiting for what happened to Dylan to happen to me . |
| 20 | ‘ Look at what happened to Gomez in 1990 . |
| 21 | The above pattern may be correct for very slow speech , but we must now look at what happens to the rhythm in normal speech : many English speakers would feel that , although in ‘ twenty places ’ the right-hand foot is the stronger , the word ‘ twenty ’ is stronger than ‘ places ’ in ‘ twenty places further back ’ when spoken in conversational style . |
| 22 | Analyses tend to stop at higher education ; they note that few working-class pupils or few black people or few women go on to university or polytechnic ; they fail to look at what happens to those who do . |
| 23 | So you can look at that , not just sort of little symbols er not really meaning much but we 're going to look at what happens to the current . |
| 24 | I 'm going to look at what happens to helium at low temperatures , and in particular I 'm going to see what it does when it 's stuck onto carbon , which it will do very readily . |
| 25 | He has only to look at what happened to Colin McFadyean at Bristol and Malcolm Lewis at Nuneaton to see that the job has far more snakes than ladders . |
| 26 | It 's all to do with what happens to the fragments of pumice while they are in mid-air , suspended in the ash cloud above the volcano . |
| 27 | ‘ Listen , this has got nothing to do with what happened to Debbie . |
| 28 | The whole thing about his migraine and his dead mother had , I think , a lot to do with What Happened To Eric . |
| 29 | Both were naturally affected by what happened to them . |
| 30 | The economics of Sunday journalism were different , being much affected by what happened to the staff and printing plant during the rest of the week . |