Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] happen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earthworms are the main item in a badger 's diet and cow grazing pastures just happen to be a good source of earthworms . |
| 2 | Frederick Campbell , when District Judge at Tangalla , also noted that cattle stealing prosecutions were identical : ‘ For example , no two parties ever happen to be together , and witness the removal of a stolen animal , one sees the removal at one , and another at another place , whilst a third sees the removal of the flesh . ’ |
| 3 | but I realised that big weight losses often happen to very overweight people at the beginning of their diets , so I did n't expect to continue at anything like that pace . |
| 4 | The orderly American " dating " we saw in films or heard about in pop songs never happened in my adolescence . |
| 5 | Very often , these mutually unintelligible and exclusive ethnic cultures just happen to be the same as the groups which common sense tells us are ‘ races ’ . |
| 6 | Paranormal experiences never happen to some people . |
| 7 | Where the shareholders also happen to be the directors , and a close personal trust and confidence is involved , the courts have been willing to look at the settlement of arguments on the basis of equity rather than strict legal principle . |
| 8 | Why was it , she wondered , that weird things always happened to her ? |
| 9 | I wonder why things always happened on a Monday , but it seemed to be the case . |
| 10 | ‘ Things always happened around Julie and Elizabeth , ’ he says . |
| 11 | It was a profound philosopher ( or maybe The Hitch-Hiker 's Guide to the Galaxy ) who said bad things always happen on Thursdays . |
| 12 | To my right was still a morass of broken glass , brickbats and son-of-metal-pipe ( good things always happen in pairs do n't you find ? ) , all under three inches of water . |
| 13 | Thus in the case of ( 38 ) it might be " terrible things always happen in war , that 's its nature and it 's no good lamenting that particular disaster " ; in the case of ( 39 ) it might be " calm down , there 's no point in worrying about whether he 's going to come because there 's nothing we can do about it " ; and in the case of ( 40 ) it might be " it 's no concern of ours ' . |
| 14 | But doctors did notice that the epidemics usually happened in the hot months of the year ; and that was when the miasmic smells from primitive or non-existent sewerage were at their worst . |
| 15 | It was not exactly what we were after but that is the way things often happen in our job . |
| 16 | I do n't think it will make very much difference to the way things actually happen in practice . |
| 17 | Pilkington disliked the impression conveyed that these friendly personalities just happened to be recommending products as though they were disinterested parties . |
| 18 | These situations sometimes happen in life . ’ |
| 19 | The grass was lucky if it grew , was shone upon and rained upon , and was not burned , and was not pulled up by the roots , or poisoned , or buried when the ground was turned over , and some bits just happened to be on a line that humans wanted to walk on , and so got trampled , broken , pressed flat , with no malice ; just effect . |
| 20 | As a middle-aged bishop he was reluctant to believe that miracles still happened in his world as they had in the time of the Lord and his apostles . |
| 21 | Most of us believe that accidents always happen to someone else , which I suppose is how we are able to go about our everyday lives . |
| 22 | In my experience very few genuine disasters ever happen in the school playground . |
| 23 | All these developments certainly happened within a few months of each other . |
| 24 | If the fields below happen to be large , they may get down safely , but a safe landing is often due to luck rather than to good judgement . |
| 25 | The police just happened to be checking cars today . |
| 26 | The two counties also happened to be playing a 2nd XI match at Stratford , where Cranmer made both his first and last appearance as a Warwickshire 2nd XI player . |