Example sentences of "[vb past] happen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They used to get petrified out of their their lives you know before they knew anything about it it it 'd happened to you . |
| 2 | Suddenly , the cafe stopped being the place where I worked and once again it became the bizarre oasis that I 'd happened upon all those months earlier . |
| 3 | It all seemed to happen at once . |
| 4 | Now everything seemed to happen at top speed . |
| 5 | From then on it was the ‘ Dark Ages ’ when nothing seemed to happen at all . |
| 6 | ‘ All seemed to happen at once . |
| 7 | It was in 1918 , the last year of the war , when everything seemed to happen at once . |
| 8 | Jack nodded and took a step towards Steve where he lay surrounded by his family , and then everything seemed to happen at once . |
| 9 | There were charming carillons on the Continent , but something dreadful seemed to happen to Catholic bells when they crossed the Channel . |
| 10 | This never seemed to happen to other diving reptiles such as the ichthyosaurs . |
| 11 | Most would agree , with hindsight , that everything seemed to happen in slow motion , during and after the murder . |
| 12 | After that everything seemed to happen in a hurry . ’ |
| 13 | As I sat in the bus on my way , strange things began to happen to me . |
| 14 | In Britain , this began to happen at about the same time as the emergence of positivist criminology — though , again , this is not to suggest any simple causal relation , in either direction ( see Garland , 1985b ) . |
| 15 | I did n't realise , at first , that my friends were gradually being pushed away , until it began to happen with my family too . ’ |
| 16 | This defect was ingeniously got over by developing a hardener which could be painted by itself on to one half of the joint while the glue was painted on the other half , nothing began to happen in the glue until the two halves were brought together . |
| 17 | And when something odd began to happen in her own body , a sensation she wished to call ugly because she had never felt it before and did not wish to feel it now with him , she released her temper again , thrashing about quite wildly beneath him to hurt herself and make the treacherous feeling go away . |
| 18 | I kept this dark secret for 15 years — but when it started happening in front of the children , I knew I had to do something about it . |
| 19 | How could he report to his girls the tortures he knew happened in the city prison ? |
| 20 | We asked some children what they thought happened to food inside their bodies . |
| 21 | Maybe what I thought I saw happen to them both did n't really happen at all . ’ |
| 22 | There was thirteen years difference between my elder sister and youngest brother — two girls and then three boys , of whom Basil was the eldest — and though this arrangement was not ideal when we came of an age to meet husbands among our brothers ' friends , it did mean that we all got along very well together and as sisters were not looked down upon by older and superior male beings as I often saw happen in other families . |
| 23 | I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face . |
| 24 | It is rare for counsel to be stopped from corss-examining on what actually did happen during the currency of an agreement , or addressing the court on this , even if such events were not reasonably foreseeable . |
| 25 | ‘ Something very bad definitely did happen at Shingle Street in 1940 , ’ he says . |
| 26 | It did happen at times but they were usually people who fancied their power , such as city councillors . |
| 27 | It is also possible to get data for past populations of countries , and to make alternative projections towards the present day , thus comparing what did happen with what might have happened . |
| 28 | What did happen to Manitas de Plata or Julian Bream ? |
| 29 | That was in her favour , and if she did happen to be a female tea leaf , well , he was the last person entitled to throw stones . |
| 30 | And of course , if the object did happen to be the flyaway tent , its owner would need it back . |