Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nothing like me has ever happened in the rap world — ever ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Instances of police racial harassment which had always happened to other people , were now happening to us . |
| 6 | While Nails was still reading his comic , she lay down and got up twice , which had never happened before . |
| 7 | No no that was , that was erm a com a completely er something which had never happened before |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I love her and have never , ever , wished she had n't happened , but I have had no youth , no fun , no life worth living . |
| 10 | Apparently he was under the impression that she had arranged to see Richard again tonight ; he was also under the delusion that Richard was a Belgian whom she had just happened to pick up . |
| 11 | That small problem solved itself readily : one door stood open with Bruce Davidson leaning on the side in a careful presentation of a man who had just happened to be passing . |
| 12 | So if you had n't happened to of gone you know |
| 13 | All too easily , if you pin the whole plot on something that seems to you a tremendous novelty , you can find that some writer you have n't happened to read has had much the same idea before you . |
| 14 | ‘ We think the big one has not happened yet , ’ said Leonila Bautista . |
| 15 | It might not be easy , but even if something has already happened that you have never told before , try to tell now . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Many of the pieces can not be the beginning because they suggest that something has already happened . |
| 18 | I was convinced that something had happened in our absence ; something had indeed happened — it had rained hard during the night and early morning — which was strange for that summer when we had a period of almost drought conditions . |
| 19 | I also had a look at the fact that Toby might well be — or have been — the man I 'd been waiting for , though God knows I 'd never have recognized him in a million years if we had n't happened , entirely by accident , to stumble into each other 's arms . |
| 20 | If he does n't turn up at his yard in the morning I 'll believe something 's really happened to him . |
| 21 | His first comment was : ‘ I have n't seen much of Matthew recently ’ — as though they had n't happened to meet in the street for a week or two — not that they had n't spoken for nearly thirty years . ’ |
| 22 | I mean someone who would just sit down and tell you things , as if they had just happened on the way home . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The fact that it has not happened says a great deal both about the appointments process and the legal profession . |
| 25 | It has not happened yet . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But it has not happened this way . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | We shall carry on as if it has not happened . |
| 30 | I 'm sorry , Dad , but I ca n't just let this thing pass — sit back and pretend it has n't happened . |