Example sentences of "happen [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People who foresee airplane disasters before they happen are said to have this gift . |
| 2 | Nature , Sickert insisted , is not going to sit still and wait till you have got what is there — all the most interesting things that happen are of the most momentary description . |
| 3 | Mass stranding of whales are quite common , as in East Anglia last autumn But why they happen is still a mystery |
| 4 | Their understanding of how they happen is the same as ours . |
| 5 | Subsequent of that of course to meet the need we had Stage Directions come into being very vibrant thrusting young people theatre 's company and really what 's happen is that Stage Directions in part anyway has taken over the mantle of the old Harlow youth theatre . |
| 6 | And what you tend to see happen is not so much joint intervention after eighteen er fifteen or eighteen eighteen . |
| 7 | To seek it happen is very moving . |
| 8 | Well I would n't actually say nobody 's excited about it I mean I think that the way these things happen is that they they 're gradual rather than er |
| 9 | And the man who 's made it all happen is Glenn Hoddle … for him Wembley … a big match is nothing new … or is it |
| 10 | One of the things I 'd like to see happen is a greater exchange across all the businesses of what they 've learnt and how they 've gone about quality programmes . |
| 11 | As a university member , I think the thing I would most like to have happen is to be accepted as an ordinary person in the place I live and the people I meet with . |
| 12 | Oh well , no what happen was |
| 13 | One of those who saw it all happen was a young actress called Sheila Hancock . |
| 14 | And the next time I saw that happen was when erm Colin who was the coloured guy during the gulf crisis met erm our m John . |
| 15 | and what happen was you had like a , a receiver in your car and all the information was transmitted from , transmitted from like on lamp post |
| 16 | what happen was they kept striking for any reason |
| 17 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 18 | and it 's , John what happen was he finished , I 'll have a bowl this side , a pile this side where they 're |
| 19 | yeah no , what happen was the alarm went off in their block or something and they all had to go into a room , I do n't know |