Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | From being someone who simply happened to fail his first driving test , he becomes a person who ‘ always goes to pieces when sitting beside the examiner ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Close to Eden is a good looking film let down by a convoluted and complex plot in which nothing really happens . |
| 3 | Which I just happen to have with me somewhere in here . |
| 4 | The speed at which everything then happened made it all seem rather unreal : |
| 5 | To this end , he has bought part of the disused airfield at Breighton , in North Humberside , set up a Clubhouse with excellent facilities , and employed some genuine craftsmen in the workshops to restore several lovely vintage aeroplanes which he just happens to have acquired . |
| 6 | As well might I have risen and said , ‘ I will tell you what really happened , for this trial and the real issues involved will one day become the subject of a great novel , and I am a man from two centuries into your future who read that book as a lad … ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't sleep without telling you what really happened . ’ |
| 8 | It was all a routine , a schtick he 'd pull on any sucker to convince them something really happened when you ‘ interfaced ’ . |
| 9 | However , he rejects this view on the ground that although the redness of a red object is not something which merely happens to look red to us , since a redness which did not look red would not be redness , nonetheless ‘ red ’ does not mean ‘ looks red ’ since only one who understands ‘ red ’ can know what ‘ looks red ’ means . |
| 10 | Question four is a very simple one what actually happens to the music at bar nine . |
| 11 | If they themselves also happen to be immigrants they can be deported . |
| 12 | Make sure nobody 's let one off and I do n't know about it which often happens . |
| 13 | When these result in avoidable death , and they do , then it could be anyone who just happens to be there — employees , consumers , ordinary citizens . |
| 14 | ‘ Is n't it about time you told me what really happened back at your flat in Radnor Walk ? ’ |
| 15 | Tell me what really happened . ’ |
| 16 | It seems to me what actually happens if you think about it is that , is that technology and culture builds on trends that already have a natural foundation . |