Example sentences of "[pron] that happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Weismann realized was that nothing that happens to your body can be translated back into your genes as it were . |
| 2 | So nothing that happens to you in the course of your life can possibly change your genes , because they 've already been copied . |
| 3 | It was almost as if nothing that happened to children could surprise them any more . |
| 4 | ‘ They see everything that happens to me . |
| 5 | Everything that happens to you has been chosen by your spirit so there must be a reason , even If you are unable to see it at the time . |
| 6 | They have become devalued as people in their own right and everything that happens to them subsequently serves to reinforce this impression . |
| 7 | Everything that happened to Millie during that first week in the House of Christ the Saviour she objected to . |
| 8 | And the other way round — during her whole life so far everything that happened to her mother went to shape what happened to herself . |
| 9 | From that moment on , everything that happened to Pamella for the next month or so is a closely-guarded secret . |
| 10 | He stares at the streets near him and hopes the grief he sees there is something that happens to other people . |
| 11 | The following remark of Dennis Altman 's , even if not strictly correct historically , rightly implies how the negation of desire and the negation of difference are in practice often inseparable : ‘ the original purpose of the categorization of homosexuals as people apart was to project the homosexuality in everyone onto a defined minority as a way of externalizing forbidden desires and reassuring the majority that homosexuality is something that happens to other people ’ ( Homosexualization , 72 ) . |
| 12 | We can be in danger of saying or feeling that bereavement is something that happens to everyone else , and that ‘ those people ’ need support , but we are perfectly able to manage on our own . |
| 13 | And something that happens to us at least five days in every month — that affects , amongst other things , our sexual feelings , and our body size and shape — why should that be unimportant ? |
| 14 | Growing old is something that happens to all of us . |
| 15 | It seems that young heterosexuals still think the disease is something that happens to others . |
| 16 | And when he talks about a means of grace , he means something that happens to you that can bring you to faith . |
| 17 | It 's just something that happens to me , I do n't know why . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's something that happens to me when I come back home , ’ he says . |
| 19 | " Development is not something that happens to the poor . |
| 20 | CRIME is no longer something that happens to other people . |
| 21 | It must be something that happens to men once they 've served on the Western Front . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Wipe your nose first , and then I 'll tell you something that happened to me . |
| 23 | With a sexual history spanning more than twenty years and including fifty or sixty different partners , he regarded VD as something that happened to other people , and was somewhat surprised to develop a mild urethral discharge five weeks after first sleeping with his new girl-friend , Angela , who was younger than him and relatively sexually inexperienced . |
| 24 | If randomized control and experimental groups end up substantially different , something that happened to them in the experiment almost certainly caused this . |
| 25 | You start by telling them a short story — something that happened to you as you came to work , something you heard on the news . |
| 26 | By now I had a baby sister Clare , and it was something that happened to her which helped to shape my destiny and provided the first step on my road to Koraloona . |
| 27 | This poem describes something that happened to the poet . |
| 28 | Choose one of the beginnings that reminds you of something that happened to you . |
| 29 | I mean , for instance , in my dreams er cars have taken on a very distinct personal symbolism that has really nothing to do with what you might think , because of personal experiences of mine , and I now know that whenever I dream about cars it always always has this but that 's because of something that happened to me and because of my personal erm kind of experiences , so cars have become a dream symbol . |
| 30 | Now a day 's residue is some association which relates the manifest content usually to what happened to you that day , and often i they 're very oft it 's often that the day 's residue is built into the manifest dream , so it 's quite obvious , you had this dream because of something that happened to you on that day . |