Example sentences of "happen to [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I go past , I wonder what has been happening to her in the intervening years , and that 's very odd . ’ |
| 2 | He remained silent , watching her , and her embarrassment grew until in the end she set her glass down with a bang and in desperation said , ‘ So are you going to tell me what 's been happening to you in the last five years ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ What happens to them in the wood ? ’ |
| 4 | Everything nice happens to me in the autumn . |
| 5 | So what happens to me in the great cultural revolution ? |
| 6 | So nothing that happens to you in the course of your life can possibly change your genes , because they 've already been copied . |
| 7 | If one accepts such a theory , then it gives a reason to all that happens to us during the course of our lives . |
| 8 | Yesterday a Teesside Crown Court jury was told by James Spencer QC , prosecuting : ‘ That lady survives today but she is permanently brain damaged and disabled and she is unable to say what happened to her on the morning on Wednesday , August 29 , 1990 . ’ |
| 9 | 1 Make a list of the main things that happened to her in the story . |
| 10 | ‘ We are at the bedside of the girl and are now starting to piece together what happened to her in the six hours she was in the hands of this maniac . |
| 11 | Exactly the same thing happened to me at the same stage when I was pregnant . ’ |
| 12 | Nothing happened to me on the way to the theatre . |
| 13 | And it was girls in school then that s s you know when you started talking about , Ooh what happened to me on the beach and that . |
| 14 | This happened to me on the Seven Mile Straight at recently , a lorry coming in the opposite direction in spite of road signs . |
| 15 | I can answer that by telling you what happened to me during the Tencel plant opening at Mobile in December . |
| 16 | It will always be a mystery , a thing that happened to me like the seasons , like floods and lightnings , without question or escape . |
| 17 | No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week . |
| 18 | ‘ Only one thing of importance happened to me in the Argentine . |
| 19 | I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’ |
| 20 | If randomized control and experimental groups end up substantially different , something that happened to them in the experiment almost certainly caused this . |
| 21 | The magazine Der Spiegel recently published the results of an opinion poll revealing that 14 per cent of Germans still think Jews were partly to blame for what happened to them in the second world war , 36 per cent believe Jews ‘ have too much influence ’ , and more than 50 per cent believe it is time for Germany to forget the past and move on . |
| 22 | If anything happened to him during the mission , Coleman was worried there might be a problem in claiming on life insurance policies taken out in his real name . |
| 23 | ‘ Do you know what happened to him during the reign of the Great Criminal ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Not the usual kind of student 's flat , ’ muttered the Marshal , surprised to find his feet walking on fitted carpet , a thing that only happened to him in the lobbies of hotels he was checking on . |
| 25 | ‘ Do you ever think about that thing that happened to us in the park ? |
| 26 | ‘ Maybe that 's what happened to you in the engine room . |
| 27 | ‘ He told me a little about what happened to you in the States , ’ I encouraged . |
| 28 | ‘ I think , ’ she said , deliberately lowering the tone of her voice , which was bordering on the hysterical , ‘ that something happened to you in the past , you loved someone else , and it 's turned you into a bitter man . |
| 29 | the thing is that something must happen to them by the time they reach the age of twenty three that makes us want to marry them . |
| 30 | ‘ Patsy was told by both fortune tellers that something would happen to her before the New Year — that an attempt would be made on her life , ’ he said . |