Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they reached home that evening , George said , ‘ After what happened to our Tamar , I do n't like you being here on your own all day . |
| 2 | After what happened to the poor idiot , Donny , at Sallins , just two miles down the road , an Arbuthnot would n't be a trouble to their consciences . |
| 3 | ‘ And after what happened to Bath , I think the whole country must be rejoicing ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ After what happened to Flavia , he would never have risked injecting illegal penicillin into you . |
| 5 | All the fish in the country will have to run for cover after what happened to me this week ! |
| 6 | I interpret it that erm parents saw that they were being asked to do something false , and if I can just correct you on something , these were n't the Governors ' proposals to seek opting out , they were the proposals of a group of parents , some of whom happen to be parent-Governors , but when the Governors themselves came to vote on whether we thought |
| 7 | Would n't you agree that in normal day to day language if we see a line of cars going down a road and one of them happens to be a Rolls Royce we would say , that 's the quality car ? |
| 8 | It is irrelevant that some of them happen to be ‘ beetle genes ’ , while others happen to be ‘ bacterial genes ’ . |
| 9 | But the private world , where people look for both their pleasure and their fulfilment , is a competing world of separate group allegiances , some of which happen to be religious . |
| 10 | If any of you happen to be professional philosophers , you will certainly have had this experience in your , in society , you 're asked what you do , and if you make that admission , a slightly lunatic thing happens . |
| 11 | I 've always had a rather ambivalent attitude towards something happening to my father , and it persists . |
| 12 | Minor misdemeanours can place her in a position of great vulnerability , subject to the whim of whoever happens to be on duty , and institutional life , by definition , is less flexible , less forgiving , than the ‘ normal family ’ home . |
| 13 | Daak was always the same : without reference to the-creed , colour , gender or opinions of whoever happened to be around , he was rude , randy , rebellious and always ready for a fight . |
| 14 | If changes in conditions disrupt the precise replication of parental characters so as to yield hereditary variation , then , providing only that some of it happens to be adaptive , this will suffice in the long run for selection as a cause of adaptive species formations . |
| 15 | Sometimes they see things — people embracing , people dancing , people undressing — and they 're terrified of it happening to me . |
| 16 | Everybody gets phone calls like that , unfortunately occasionally , but it kind of I went through a phase of it happening to me so I therefore had to change my phone number because it was er it was really unpleasant being woken er up by these calls . |
| 17 | We have lived in this peaceful west Stirlingshire village for 32 years , and thought the risk of it happening to us was negligible . |
| 18 | This could be termed an uncomely version of what happens to Patrick , whose wife discovers that , at long last , she is pregnant . |
| 19 | What has been seen as an aspect of the Roman catholic intellectual opposition to divorce in Chapter 5 can also be recognized as a feature of the defence of catholic schools too : the opposition contains an interpretation of the moral nature of contemporary society and of what happens to catholics who are not to some degree protected from it . |
| 20 | It is certainly not strong enough to extract unconditional aid from the developed nations , habitually suspicious of what happens to their money once it reaches Third World administrations . |
| 21 | While political consistency can be over-rated as a virtue — Ted Heath being an example of what happens to a politician whose mind remains fixed while the world moves by him — the rapidity with which Kinnock changed position may have damaged him more than his supporters thought it would . |
| 22 | Despite these important advancements , however , the problem of what happens to mentally handicapped people when they reach the later school-leaving age of nineteen remains , and what happens when they may face the prospects of a lifetime of unfulfilment which could quickly undermine the considerable efforts made by teachers , houseparents , parents and guardians to help the mentally handicapped child attain his or her full potential . |
| 23 | The future may be seen narrowly in terms of what will happen to the children when they move out of this class , or this school , to the next stage ; but ultimately whether or not they have been properly educated will be judged in terms of what happens to them later , when they have left school . |
| 24 | Follow through will cost you dearly in time and effort but it may reward you handsomely in terms of what happens to your report . |
| 25 | This is guaranteed by the bank , irrespective of what happens to the spot rate over the next three months . |
| 26 | The second stage of taphonomic modification takes account of what happens to the small mammal carcases shortly after death . |
| 27 | Monk wrote an account of their experience for the Universe , and has been promoted to write a fuller account of the Church 's teaching on death , of what happens to the soul before , during and after death . |
| 28 | Much of what happens to you professionally , or with regard to your major aims , is subject to the actions of others . |
| 29 | We can conveniently neglect the question of what happens to all the assertive little boys and cooperative little girls when they leave the arena of childhood play and enter the adult world . |
| 30 | Now I find myself alone — that is irrelevant in terms of what happens to me , but for the idea that the Lord was homosexual , and for the perverted practices on his dead body not to be seen to be blasphemous if the case is lost — about that I am lost for words ! |