Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In order for them not to happen the law would have to be changed and , with the time it would take to change the law , we would n't be able to do so before the elections are due to happen . |
| 2 | Yeah well I was talking , I was talking to a friend and they said that , you know , there 's some homophobic attacks and some of them just happen to occur because people are walking in a gay area |
| 3 | For her there was always a strange excitement in his presence of something about to happen . |
| 4 | I should hate him , only it seems so unreal sometimes , as though none of it ever happened . |
| 5 | Though in view of what eventually happened , I did regret thinking that . |
| 6 | I — I 'm not proud of what just happened . ’ |
| 7 | But you 'll get a clearer idea of what exactly happened when you watch the post-mortem . |
| 8 | Twelve year old Emma Butler died during a kickabout after a five a side football match … she 'd been watching her younger brother , Matthew , play in a tournament organised by the St Edmunds Football Club at the European School in Abingdon … details of what exactly happened are still sketchy … but it 's believed a hockey goal post which was leaning against a hut fell down crushing Emmas chest … |
| 9 | The phrase group conversion is simply an easy inexact description of what really happens . ’ |
| 10 | If the approach to be found here can be tied to a previous tradition , it will be to the modern speculative grammar of which Jespersen and Sapir were eminent exponents earlier in the century ; this tradition has become unfashionable in the past two or three decades , though distinguished work in this mode has still been produced by various scholars , for instance P. H. Matthews in England and Dwight Bolinger in America ; in particular , if there are any worthwhile results in the present text , they owe much to Bolinger 's example of investigation through careful scrutiny of what really happens grammatically when a given expression is used . |
| 11 | Noticeboards have been scrubbed clean of posters , walls of daubed slogans and minds of memories of what really happened . |
| 12 | on top of what usually happens annually . |
| 13 | Most women gain most of their knowledge of the criminal justice process from the media since few will have attended actual court cases or learnt from friends of what actually happens in the criminal justice system . |
| 14 | The point I would like to put over is , I 've listened to one or two erm , radio programmes , and television programmes about this and I personally would like to have more evidence of what actually happens to the animals . |
| 15 | We are arguing , on the basis of what actually happens in classrooms , that a purist adherence to any methodological orthodoxy can generate considerable problems , that these need to be addressed openly , and that in any event the notion that the act of teaching can be made the subject of procedural mandates is suspect and unrealistic . |
| 16 | The implicit curriculum is what is received through the total impact of what actually happens in school . |
| 17 | There are two perceptions of what actually happened in the village that day . |
| 18 | Self-representation in this way was never as systematically developed as the products of modern propaganda machines , but , as with the study of portraiture , it can be very revealing about the aspirations and claims of any regime , matters which are as interesting to the historian as the reality of what actually happened . |
| 19 | Accounts differ as to who was present and how many vehicles they had , so what follows is an approximation of what actually happened . |
| 20 | The Video-wall presentation attempts to give an impression of what actually happened over those 18 tumultuous days between the reading of the Proclamation and the execution of James Connolly . |
| 21 | For a variety of reasons this type of explanation must be rejected today and the explosive diversification of Metazoa across the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary , as recorded in the strata , is now generally accepted as being a true reflection of what actually happened ( Stanley , 1976 ; Seilacher , 1977 ) . |
| 22 | But whether or not it is a completely accurate report of what actually happened is perhaps not the point . |
| 23 | This may not be very accurate as a depiction of what actually happened , but it is extremely valuable in showing the myths and popular interpretations that have grown up afterwards . |
| 24 | Gregory 's account of what actually happened is laconic in the extreme . |
| 25 | If he had , he supposed that he would now have been in a much better position to help Celia , would have had a better understanding of what sometimes happened after giving birth . |
| 26 | He 's acting like it never happened . ’ |
| 27 | Apart from that , it is almost like it never happened . |
| 28 | So the pictures you see are like it sometimes happens . |
| 29 | However , if lenders and borrowers can be assumed to look further ahead than the immediate moment , and if their guesses about the future are anywhere near what eventually happens , the level of real interest rates in 1984–5 may be better represented by one of the last two columns of Table 8.3 . |
| 30 | Great chart success has eluded the band , but they made a dent on the charts two years ago with Nothing Ever Happens . |