Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nothing like me has ever happened in the rap world — ever ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I think an MP is there to respond to correspondence , and I 'm very surprised that he takes issue with one of our officers because she does n't happen to be the Chief Officer , and I 'm very sad about that . |
| 5 | ‘ We think the big one has not happened yet , ’ said Leonila Bautista . |
| 6 | It might not be easy , but even if something has already happened that you have never told before , try to tell now . |
| 7 | A moment 's thought will show that this ideal state can not possibly exist , since a gyro can not react to something until after that something has already happened . |
| 8 | Many of the pieces can not be the beginning because they suggest that something has already happened . |
| 9 | A statement that something does not happen both creates an event and abolishes it in the same act ( 1976k:21–2 ) . |
| 10 | They have n't told us anything , but if something does n't happen by nine , I reckon they 'll stand us down . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ … if something does n't happen by nine … ’ |
| 12 | I think that er quite honestly , if so if something does n't happen shortly we 'll all be making ping-pong |
| 13 | When you get angry you pump all sorts of different chemicals around your body and they do n't do your body any good that 's for sure , you know you get the adrenalin that starts making everything well making the blood move faster heart beat faster you get other chemicals ready and if those chemicals are n't used properly or if something does n't happen and it uses those particular chemicals and they 're left inside the body then that causes eventually physical illness in some sort of physical wearing of some sort or another , so gradually just the opposite of this where you 're you 're not internalising your throwing it out , but there 's a hell of a lot in there that 's been stored up there and bottled up there before it throws out , and when you do tend to be aggressive it 's not because you 're being aggressive on purpose it 's because it 's just something that just happens and wells up when you get to a particular point and whoosh out it comes . |
| 14 | If he does n't turn up at his yard in the morning I 'll believe something 's really happened to him . |
| 15 | There does n't happen to be a pen in there does there ? |
| 16 | It has not happened since the end of the Second World War , but before the 1987 election , when some commentators were predicting a hung parliament , much thought was given to what the Queen would do about forming a government if they turned out to be right . |
| 17 | The fact that it has not happened says a great deal both about the appointments process and the legal profession . |
| 18 | It has not happened yet . ’ |
| 19 | The underlying attitude is perhaps that most people accept mentally handicapped people and are sympathetic towards them , but remain inwardly glad that it has not happened to them or to their children — ‘ there but for the grace of God , go I. ’ They also continue to believe the many myths surrounding the handicapped which have been passed on for decades . |
| 20 | But it has not happened this way . |
| 21 | They are negotiating with Canada to allow them to do it there , but it has not happened yet and the weapons are due here in six months time . |
| 22 | We shall carry on as if it has not happened . |
| 23 | I 'm sorry , Dad , but I ca n't just let this thing pass — sit back and pretend it has n't happened . |
| 24 | I 'm not prepared to simply brush it under the carpet and try to pretend it has n't happened . |
| 25 | Although it has n't happened yet I 'm sure it 's only a matter of time before he makes a pass at me . |
| 26 | It has n't happened yet . |
| 27 | It has n't happened yet , but it still might . |
| 28 | Since it has n't happened , in other words , it is n't wyrd , and so need not a explained . |
| 29 | If it has n't happened already , it 's going to happen any time now , and when it does , software developers could get the impetus they need to start shifting products capable of useful work . |
| 30 | But I think it was , " it has n't happened so far , so why should it ? " |