Example sentences of "[pers pn] do [adv] [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ By a quite exceptional oversight , ’ said Rufus , ‘ I do n't just happen to have any picture postcards of the Acropolis about me at present . ’ |
| 2 | Furthermore , who would guess , if they did not already happen to know , that the huge sum raised by plants was the achievement and gift of one family – the Crawfords ? |
| 3 | Unless they did n't actually happen in September . |
| 4 | over a five year period , I mean they do n't just happen overnight |
| 5 | ‘ It did n't just happen , Dermot . |
| 6 | It did n't really happen overnight , I guess , but through the MainMan News , MainMan kind of mushroomed into this enormous spending machine that really got out of control and I think was a very destructive influence on everyone that was involved . ’ |
| 7 | It did n't really happen . |
| 8 | From the premises a > b and b> c , it does not simply happen to be the case that a> c . |
| 9 | It does n't just happen . |
| 10 | BUT it does n't just happen by accident . |
| 11 | It does n't just happen in nature , and I do n't really see why women should be at a disadvantage , unless it follows in the tail of many of the other disadvantages , which are actually made by society and culture , not by biology . |
| 12 | That 's the bit that people fe find a bit hard to er to accept because in the real world it does n't actually happen because there 's always some other force like air resistance , friction , road resistance from your tyres and , and it grad it always stops eventually . |
| 13 | It does n't usually happen . |
| 14 | It does n't only happen with women : it happened in a different way with Tom Keating and Chris Frayling ( who is Professor of Cultural History at the Royal College of Art ) . |
| 15 | There tends to be , the differences tend to be hammered out behind closed doors and , on the whole , there , there tends to be erm a single voice , it does n't always happen , but there 's more of a single voice in British policy making than American policy making . |
| 16 | It is significant that it does indeed sometimes happen ; we return to the question of when at the end of this section . |