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 | Instances of police racial harassment which had always happened to other people , were now happening to us . |
| 5 | While Nails was still reading his comic , she lay down and got up twice , which had never happened before . |
| 6 | No no that was , that was erm a com a completely er something which had never happened before |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It might not be easy , but even if something has already happened that you have never told before , try to tell now . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Many of the pieces can not be the beginning because they suggest that something has already happened . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If he does n't turn up at his yard in the morning I 'll believe something 's really happened to him . |
| 15 | I mean someone who would just sit down and tell you things , as if they had just happened on the way home . |
| 16 | But it has also happened for formal reasons which are not good ones at all . |
| 17 | Matthew Spender 's writing is at its best remembering the past as though it has just happened . |
| 18 | And it has just happened to Kate Moss at the tender age of 18 . |
| 19 | Maybe it has just happened . ’ |
| 20 | It has already happened with Victorian England , for example . |
| 21 | It has always happened , of course , but in the old days , when the stock market was a smaller and more human place , the intimacy of dealing lent some protection . |
| 22 | The answer , of course , is that it has never happened , and if it ever did there would be immediate and radical constitutional change to ensure it never happened again . |
| 23 | Yet it has often happened that attacks on such alternative groups , by established opinion , have shifted them into conscious opposition as distinct from conscious dissent or the offering of a conscious alternative . |
| 24 | It has all happened before , he wrote , and it will all happen again . |
| 25 | It has all happened since the story appeared in the EADT appealing for sponsors . ’ |
| 26 | It has all happened in the past and may well happen again — and again — in the future . |
| 27 | And it has all happened . |
| 28 | In a move which has upset Leeds ' manager Howard Wilkinson , Batty said : ‘ I had heard that Blackburn were interested but it has all happened so quickly . |
| 29 | It was a completely unique event as far as we were concerned it 'd never happened before and hopefully it 'll never happen again . |
| 30 | After all these years it had finally happened ! |