Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] actually happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the kind of thing you do n't think of until it actually happens to you . |
| 2 | His early involvement in this so-called jazz-poetry — which achieved such popularity in the sixties — shows that Leonard , not for the first time , and certainly not the last , was ‘ where it was all happening ’ before it actually happened . |
| 3 | In spite of all the worrying about it the next stage with Edward still took Sally by surprise when it actually happened . |
| 4 | Of course Elmer Rice 's play had been censored and toned down before coming to the screen but Photoplay still needed to ask whether ‘ the public really wants a true cross-section of life presented as it actually happens ’ . |
| 5 | Not as funny as it actually happening and you getting covered in vomit but I mean it 's still vaguely amusing . |
| 6 | A somewhat different case is García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude which recounts the history of the small town of Macondo , not so much as it actually happened , but as its inhabitants experienced and interpreted it and as it was transmitted by popular oral tradition . |