Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , if you or I should happen to chance on a second , battered and with a dozen pages adrift , we should be happy to buy it for a modest sum . |
| 2 | Politically , therefore , the inducements to continue what the Plowden Committee call ‘ excessive social services ’ are much stronger than the inducements to discontinue them or to supplement any which may happen to be ‘ inadequate ’ . |
| 3 | A further luxury Excise Duty of 10% will be assessed on specific expensive cars , which may happen to be imported cars , but simply coincidence , boats , furs and electrical goods . |
| 4 | When that aim is kept in view , it will be found that English as a subject should occupy not any place which may happen to be vacant , but the first place ; and that English as a method must have entry everywhere . |
| 5 | Subject to Section 310 of the Act , every Director or other officer of the Company shall be entitled to be indemnified out of the assets of the Company against all losses or liabilities which he may sustain or incur in or about the execution of the duties of his office or otherwise in relation thereto , including any liability incurred by him in defending any proceedings , whether civil or criminal , in which judgement is given in his favour or in which he is acquitted or in connection with any application under Sections 144(3) or ( 4 ) or 727 of the Act in which relief is granted to him by the Court , and no Director or other officer shall be liable for any loss , damage or misfortune which may happen to or be incurred by the Company in the execution of the duties of his office or in relation thereto . |
| 6 | Subject to Section 310 of the Act , every Director or other officer of the Company shall be entitled to be indemnified out of the assets of the Company against all losses or liabilities which he may sustain or incur in or about the execution of the duties of his office or otherwise in relation thereto , including any liability incurred by him in defending any proceedings , whether civil or criminal , in which judgement is given in his favour or in which he is acquitted or in connection with any application under Sections 144(3) or ( 4 ) or 727 of the Act in which relief is granted to him by the Court , and no Director or other officer shall be liable for any loss , damage or misfortune which may happen to or be incurred by the Company in the execution of the duties of his office or in relation thereto . |
| 7 | Anderson came here on a visit after tidying up his affairs before leaving for Britain He is free from bitterness , and speaks bluntly of the change of motive which must happen to white settlers in a country passing under black majority rule . |
| 8 | In contrast , any misfortune which might happen to a person accused before a spirit might be attributed to sorcery . |
| 9 | Because it had taken place so long ago and was one of those things which could happen to anyone , she was quite unconcerned about the accident itself . |
| 10 | Not only on , on the expenditure and the changes required , but also on planning our response to changes which will happen in the future , because it is unlikely that we will ever be able to forecast everything which will happen to us exactly . |
| 11 | To see a disturbed animal rehomed several times and to witness the disastrous consequences and schizophrenic mess of a dog which results , one soon realises there are worse things which can happen to a dog than to be humanely destroyed . |
| 12 | But if he wins , it 's possible that something may happen to me . |
| 13 | If something should happen to him , there might be no institution prepared to take over . |
| 14 | the thing is that something must happen to them by the time they reach the age of twenty three that makes us want to marry them . |
| 15 | I mean , if he did go off into the wilds of Anatolia , or somewhere remote like that — something might happen to him in some village , where he is n't known . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Frightened something might happen to me ? ’ he sneered . |
| 17 | He held the sleeping baby and was alternately happy and tortured with fear that something might happen to her . |
| 18 | Det Insp Eddie Muddle , who is leading the hunt for the kidnapper , said : ‘ It was a very traumatic experience but she acted very sensibly by co-operating with her abductor for fear that something would happen to her child . |
| 19 | She just knew , she knew with absolute certainty , that in this vast , noisy , busy city , something would happen to her , and it was bound to be something good . |
| 20 | Something would happen to the L |
| 21 | I think he was frightened something would happen to us . |
| 22 | He would n't give me his name because he was concerned that something would happen to him if he gave me his details . |
| 23 | ‘ Patsy was told by both fortune tellers that something would happen to her before the New Year — that an attempt would be made on her life , ’ he said . |
| 24 | This was only part of a general sort of pattern as it were , where people were beginning to impinge on their lives , there was another well-known local alcoholic there who was knocking on doors trying to get money off people , and there 's several elderly people who gave this woman money , because they were frightened that if they did n't something would happen to them . |
| 25 | ‘ This promotes the refocusing of attention from a region where there may happen to be high quality accidental word matches to events whose word match quality may not be as great , but are the best matches in their regions . |
| 26 | Some of the equipment in here must have cost a small fortune — it would be dreadful , would n't it , if there should happen to be an accident ? ’ |
| 27 | The Emperor spoke to him and said that as long as he did not speak to anyone in that underground place , nothing would happen to him . |
| 28 | But what had happened to her could happen to any woman . |
| 29 | There have been several kidnappings for ransom recently and I 'm just taking precautions to ensure that nothing will happen to you . |
| 30 | Your wife will be frightened , but nothing will happen to her , of course . |