Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nothing like me has ever happened in the rap world — ever ! |
| 2 | It was wet on the ground , + I slipped , but unfortunately the same bench that I mentioned previously happened to be in my way again . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't happen to want to get killed . ’ |
| 4 | I must try to remember , Celia said to herself , that I am only a statistic to Dr Shalcross , possibly a case history she might wish to quote , anonymously , because I do n't happen to run true to form . |
| 5 | I enjoy my privileges but that is one I do n't happen to want . ’ |
| 6 | I do n't happen to think bolting is in the least bit environmentally damaging ( at least not compared with other activities going on around it ) but mechanical drills are bound to give it a bad image — the message her is ‘ bolters , do your stuff in winter or at night . ’ |
| 7 | All of us as women have the right and and the ability to give birth , that is if we can , there 's nothing , er , medically wrong with us but then added to that there are those who have the ability to be good mothers , un unfortunately I do n't happen to fall into that category . |
| 8 | But I do n't happen anyway . |
| 9 | Well I do n't happen to believe in public authority sites . |
| 10 | Oddly enough , I did n't happen to be in my room again when Terry Wogan came to see me before the show on the second occasion . |
| 11 | When all the time I had actually been with him I had always realized he was the type to make a pass at the nearest girl with his last gasp , and I had just happened to be that girl . |
| 12 | It may also have been that the government was unwilling to lend further strength to the clamour for the reform of the Official Secrets Act ( which has now happened ) that had been mounting for some years . |
| 13 | I am glad to say that immense capital investment is going into that , which did not happen under the last Labour Government . |
| 14 | Other regions , which did not happen to pick up a rotation , would become oval-shaped objects called elliptical galaxies . |
| 15 | Tony was supposed to have been singing in a Black Sabbath ‘ reunion ’ in the States , which did n't happen for him in the end , but that gave us some breathing space . |
| 16 | It becomes open to rational criticism , and to historical and other empirical checks , in ways which do not happen within the closed system of a community of fellow-believers . |
| 17 | ‘ You see things here which do n't happen in London . |
| 18 | The only problem will arise if somebody thinks you 've simply lost a will , which does occasionally happen , and then they turn to the copy to try and prove it . |
| 19 | After Hitler had again suggested in a speech in mid-March 1941 that Britain would be conquered and the war ended finally in Germany 's favour within the next year , people were heard to remark that ‘ the Führer had never held out a prospect of something which had not happened ’ , and that one could therefore unquestionably rely upon the imminent defeat of Britain and end of the war . |
| 20 | Instances of police racial harassment which had always happened to other people , were now happening to us . |
| 21 | While Nails was still reading his comic , she lay down and got up twice , which had never happened before . |
| 22 | No no that was , that was erm a com a completely er something which had never happened before |
| 23 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 24 | ‘ What do you think really happened ? ’ asked Mary . |
| 25 | Mr Kinnock hoped a Labour government would be so successful ‘ as to diminish the support for several parties who do n't happen to be our political allies and are unlikely to become so . ’ |
| 26 | It is unnecessary as regards persons whom the husband has not by his previous conduct induced to look to him for payment ; it is ineffectual as regards those who do not happen to see the advertisement . |
| 27 | Thus we should guard against any immediate and unreasoned reaction to the idea that they might ultimately be widened to encompass individuals who do not happen to be human . |
| 28 | It was the main reason the party stayed so long the creature of the Magic Circle and the explanation for the exclusion , time and again , of otherwise talented party-members who did n't happen to have the right pedigree . |
| 29 | You did n't happen to notice another big button with SECRET VAULT FULL OF STOLEN TREASURE printed in big letters above it then ? ’ |
| 30 | You did n't happen to see this new series last night Mulberry did you ? |