Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were right about what happened to her , ’ he admitted . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're so sorry about what happened to poor old Goosie Lucy but she gave us no choice . |
| 3 | I interpret it that erm parents saw that they were being asked to do something false , and if I can just correct you on something , these were n't the Governors ' proposals to seek opting out , they were the proposals of a group of parents , some of whom happen to be parent-Governors , but when the Governors themselves came to vote on whether we thought |
| 4 | It is irrelevant that some of them happen to be ‘ beetle genes ’ , while others happen to be ‘ bacterial genes ’ . |
| 5 | But the private world , where people look for both their pleasure and their fulfilment , is a competing world of separate group allegiances , some of which happen to be religious . |
| 6 | If changes in conditions disrupt the precise replication of parental characters so as to yield hereditary variation , then , providing only that some of it happens to be adaptive , this will suffice in the long run for selection as a cause of adaptive species formations . |
| 7 | I suppose she 's afraid of anything happening to her friend as a result . |
| 8 | It therefore follows that , since there 's nothing in any way the matter with your work , somebody at Ardis is embarrassed by what happened to you — and wants to keep it quiet . ’ |
| 9 | Much of what happens to you professionally , or with regard to your major aims , is subject to the actions of others . |
| 10 | It is certainly not strong enough to extract unconditional aid from the developed nations , habitually suspicious of what happens to their money once it reaches Third World administrations . |
| 11 | At this moment she looked to Joe like a witch and her voice and words sounded as ominous as any that could have been uttered by an authentic witch , as she hissed at him , ‘ I am more concerned about what happens to you than what a lot of stupid men do in their aim to kill each other . |
| 12 | Your husband may also be very concerned about what happened to you when Carl was born . |
| 13 | ‘ You felt responsible for what happened to Leakey , ’ I said soothingly . |
| 14 | Would n't you agree that in normal day to day language if we see a line of cars going down a road and one of them happens to be a Rolls Royce we would say , that 's the quality car ? |
| 15 | If any of you happen to be professional philosophers , you will certainly have had this experience in your , in society , you 're asked what you do , and if you make that admission , a slightly lunatic thing happens . |
| 16 | It may be very very relevant to what happens to but with regard to your client , this statement is not evidence against him because his confession is admissible only against the maker . |
| 17 | This is guaranteed by the bank , irrespective of what happens to the spot rate over the next three months . |
| 18 | Sometimes they see things — people embracing , people dancing , people undressing — and they 're terrified of it happening to me . |