Example sentences of "[verb] n't happen [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you talked to judges in the Sixties , they might have told you they did n't happen at all or would be willing to concede that a miscarriage might take place once every 10 years . ’ |
| 2 | We try to keep aberrations like that to an absolute minimum — we 'd rather they did n't happen at all , obviously , but every so often the gremlins creep in . |
| 3 | That did n't happen on 30 June 1989 and it wo n't happen at any time in the future if the Army Catering Corps has anything to do with it ! |
| 4 | Well that was n't why , he did n't , well he did n't happen to that one . |
| 5 | Well I think that er , you know , just did n't happen like that though , except things like that in one way and . |
| 6 | Anyway , it did n't happen like that , and Coffin knew it . |
| 7 | But it did n't happen like that and you 've got to make the best of it . ’ |
| 8 | And I went oh God , that 's probably cos it did n't happen like this and he goes oh right and he goes yeah got a bit excited there for a minute did n't you son like and went er yeah well Andy I like , quite like him , he 's quite sweet but |
| 9 | and it did n't happen in thirty nine because remember how monstrous it was |
| 10 | Marsden explained that hospital social workers had negotiated their role in discharge in the 1970s , when the Freeman Hospital had been built — ‘ discharges do n't happen without social services input ’ — and had then spread the same working practices to Newcastle 's other two acute hospitals . |
| 11 | ‘ Coincidences simply do n't happen in real life … ’ |
| 12 | That do n't happen in real life . |
| 13 | ‘ The Italian referee let things go that do n't happen in this country . |
| 14 | She thought again , Things do n't happen like this — not to people like me . |
| 15 | ‘ So it does n't happen at all ? ’ |
| 16 | But it does n't happen like that . |
| 17 | It does n't happen like that ! |
| 18 | does n't happen like that . |
| 19 | It does n't happen like that . |
| 20 | er the calls are totally confidential and it would depend entirely on the child as to really what happened , because er you ca n't say to a child ‘ right I 'm going to report this ’ , it does n't happen like that . |
| 21 | That does n't happen in any respectable report , of course , but it 's the sort of ever-present risk that those of us who are responsible for production need to beware of . ’ |
| 22 | They have n't told us anything , but if something does n't happen by nine , I reckon they 'll stand us down . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ … if something does n't happen by nine … ’ |