Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] it happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | The instructions about practising will have been given while he was under hypnosis ( although he will , of course , have heard and understood every word ) and so , because he is willing for it to happen , they will be firmly planted in his subconscious mind . |
| 2 | If changes in conditions disrupt the precise replication of parental characters so as to yield hereditary variation , then , providing only that some of it happens to be adaptive , this will suffice in the long run for selection as a cause of adaptive species formations . |
| 3 | I 'm just rather despairing about it happening . |
| 4 | You just had to wait longer for it to happen . |
| 5 | That what she said at Bruges , before any of it happened , was a tablet of stone — so that the nation state is the foundation of her Europe . |
| 6 | He 'd secured her with practised ease , and so fast that she had n't even been aware of it happening . |
| 7 | It was only later , after they had become engaged , that he had seemed to change , so slowly at first that she was scarcely even aware of it happening until , one day at a party given by a fellow student , someone , she could n't even remember who , had planted a playful kiss on her cheek . |
| 8 | Sometimes they see things — people embracing , people dancing , people undressing — and they 're terrified of it happening to me . |
| 9 | Most of it happened thanks to tireless negotiations with opera houses , TV crews and recording companies in the west , but it has not so far turned out to be anything like a pact with the devil . |