Example sentences of "but [pron] [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 31 | But it so happens , you might say well all these years retired I ca n't be much good at the job , you 'll be interested to know that I give talks to groups which include retiring tax inspectors . |
| 32 | Yes , I wanted to do a production with Balanchine , but it never happened , and now there is no one I can think I would want to do it with . |
| 33 | Without giving it much thought , we all assumed that after the present infatuations had cooled down , Andrew would marry Judith , but it never happened , although he did marry twice during his later years in Toronto . |
| 34 | We were once promised something of the sort from Anna Ford back at ITN , but it never happened . |
| 35 | The friend said : ‘ The ideal solution would have been for Camilla to break off with Andrew , but it never happened . |
| 36 | Well they were meant to go in a chicken but it never happened . |
| 37 | One RUC officer said : ‘ If you wrote that into a play or novel , people would n't believe it , but it actually happened . |
| 38 | But what exactly happens to your body during this exhausting festive assault ? |
| 39 | But what else happened remains unclear . |
| 40 | But what usually happens is that unacceptable ( as opposed to lethal ) levels of toxins stress the fish , leaving them abnormally vulnerable to attack by opportunistic organisms . |
| 41 | So it 's an attempt on , on , on the second level to minutely reconstructing historical , the lost , the truest but what really happened and in that on that level , it 's important for Freud to establish that Moses was not Jewish but Egyptian , because this gives him the link with Egyptian monarchism and the events of the exodus and explains it as well . |
| 42 | I am sorry I d d , I agree with you on one one point that the Middle Eastern er , er government that of the super power from , from the reception , but what really happened in the Gulf War is a typical reflection of the injustice of how the war was being conducted . |
| 43 | In actual practice you could find an analysis that very often the things that have been repressed have not been repressed in the sense that they 've been totally submerged from your consciousness and totally forgotten without any trace , but what often happens is they 've become isolated or , or divorced from their context in your memory . |
| 44 | ‘ But what actually happened ? ’ |
| 45 | If he comes to court , what happened at the police station does n't matter because he 'll then give direct evidence , not what he said in the police station but what actually happened on that night in the , in the estate . |
| 46 | ’ But what basically happens is , if we see someone acting suspiciously in our store , we phone up a store in the next block and warn them , giving a description of the suspect . |
| 47 | But what ever happens at the end of the day , neither is going on the scrap heap because they are a diamond , so someone will snap up a diamond and it will retain it 's value and they will do very well . |
| 48 | ‘ Pardon me asking , sir , but what ever happened to your pilot 's licence ? ’ |