Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , what was happening to us was also happening to others , notably the Germans , and could of course happen to anyone . |
| 2 | My reason for being there was that this particular bit of coast happens to be the northern end of the Offa 's Dyke footpath , which winds for 168 miles along the English/Welsh border to Chepstow . |
| 3 | About 85pc of SIDs happened to babies aged less than six months , of which 60pc were between one month and four months . |
| 4 | About 85% of SIDs happened to babies aged less than six months , of which 60% were between one and four months . |
| 5 | This will never happen if the law of reflection happens to be true , but no logical contradiction would be involved if it did . |
| 6 | And I think that 's a , you know and it 's the fact that society allows a lot of abuse to happen to women and therefore it 's not seen as hatred to women , it 's seen as perfectly acceptable . |
| 7 | ‘ Only one thing of importance happened to me in the Argentine . |
| 8 | Oh , I 'm not suggesting that these groups , if they come together and mix will cause problems , I 'm suggesting that if there is only one kind of person that 's attracted to a particular site and that type of person happens to be socially irresponsible , then then you 're it 's a recipe for disaster , is n't it ? |
| 9 | ‘ That congregational aspect — which is a pretty Presbyterian word and I quite like the connotation — of the emotional effect of things happening to people while they 're gathered together , that was the big thing in the early acid clubs , that feeling that you were in a place with 200 people all going the same way as you , all into being there , enjoying being in this mass of people … … |
| 10 | Not only are our brains equipped by nature to assess risks of things in a short time ; they are also equipped to assess risks of things happening to us personally , or to a narrow circle of people that we know . |
| 11 | Our brains are probably equipped by nature to assess the risks of things happening to ourselves , or to a few hundred people in the small circle of villages within drum-range that our tribal ancestors could expect to hear news about . |
| 12 | ‘ Everybody dreams of success happening to them . |
| 13 | Yes , this , this kind of thing happens to people who 've been in traumatic situations , like erm er prisoner of war camps , severe accidents and stuff like that , and Freud himself of course saw quite a lot of these cases after the First World War . |
| 14 | We do n't expect this sort of thing to happen to us . ’ |
| 15 | Rumours of the dispersal of families and the deportation of good working stock to forced-labour camps abounded ; but this sort of thing happened to other , less educated people . … |
| 16 | Ca n't have that sort of thing happening to me , he thought . |
| 17 | ‘ You read about this sort of thing happening to others but you never think it 's going to happen to you . ’ |
| 18 | Did this sort of thing happen to Babs Osborne or Miss Blundell ? |
| 19 | not content to sit at home and wait for things to happen to her . |
| 20 | Your relationship with Janice happens to be very much my damned business , particularly now that I understand the truth ! ’ |
| 21 | My white of the month is the 1989 Dry Muscat from Portugal 's Joao Pires winery , where the man in charge happens to be an Australian . |
| 22 | They in turn , have consultants in Japan , erm , in Europe , and in the United States , and their particular consultant in America happens to be in Pittsburg , run by this chap called Simon who , by the way we feel is , is very effective and very good at his job . |
| 23 | She felt herself to be still very slightly dazed , disorientated enough to give the impression that she was a disinterested observer of the scene and not quite able to realise that these things were in fact happening to her . |
| 24 | ‘ I am still waiting for what happened to Dylan to happen to me . |
| 25 | Alison , a personnel director , said : ‘ The doctor on call happened to be the unit director , which did n't come cheap . |
| 26 | Alison , a personnel director said : ‘ The doctor on call happened to be the unit director , which did n't come cheap . |
| 27 | I asked her what on earth happens to people who do n't live in a small town where they are known and therefore helped . |
| 28 | And then Clelia sighed heavily , and looked sadly at Clara 's Japanese wooden egg puzzle , which she had been trying all this while to do , and said , " How very dull for you , to hear all about my affairs , but I do so like to tell the story of my life , it makes me feel as though things hive re ally happened to me , whereas otherwise they seem not to happen . " |