Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's the kind of place that no one ever hears of , where nothing ever happens . |
| 2 | I was on bass , David was on acoustic guitar and we got this guy called Tex , he was a black conga player and came around with us doing a few gigs , although nothing really happened . |
| 3 | In the discussion I have taken the necessity of quantification for granted ( although it sometimes happens in such communities that some patterns of variation are obvious without formal quantification ) . |
| 4 | SIR — It has already been reported that , contrary to official policy , the scientific merits of candidates for academic promotion in Italy are not given primary consideration by the members of the judging commission , so it often happens that a loser has a curriculum vitae ( c.v. ) clearly superior to that of a winner . |
| 5 | She wants the sentences increased so it never happens again . |
| 6 | First , you should examine what the terms of your contract require rather than what actually happened during the existence of that contract . |
| 7 | Perhaps it was important erm because as as as erm , as I 'm I 'm fond of saying that in history perhaps what you believe is more important than what actually happened . |
| 8 | However , with the sticky label approach and the possibly dangerous method of fitting the power supply — the mains hum will affect the picture quality if nothing else happens — the unit slips into the second rank . |
| 9 | If nothing else happens , we are in the world of monetary base control . |
| 10 | as if nothing bad happens here . ’ |
| 11 | And if you just happen to think of one that is n't here — just tell Jimmy and I 'm sure he 'll accommodate you . |
| 12 | If you just happen to stick around here you 'll learn to sing his praises . |
| 13 | Hong Kong and Bangkok tend to be lumped together in holiday brochures under the same Far East tag , and indeed , it makes sense to visit both if you just happen to find yourself in that part of the world . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps the best we can hope for is to conduct here a kind of uneasy holding operation until something else happens in another place ’ — but in most other respects , certainly in conclusions and prescription , they diverged to the point of confrontation . |
| 15 | So the vicar signed a missing person report to be added to the dozens of others filed that day all over the country and that until something else happened would be that . |
| 16 | So it , it 's not until something really happens |
| 17 | If they also happen to be living alone , we can make all the difference to the monotony of their existence by arranging to take them out regularly . |
| 18 | It 's the kind of thing you do n't think of until it actually happens to you . |
| 19 | When you do this what you will see in the cell is either a 0 ( meaning False ) if what is actually in B10 is n't Bach or 1 ( meaning True ) if it just happens to be Bach . |
| 20 | If it still happens , then try a smaller main hook , which will be lighter and more easily sucked into the barbel 's mouth . |
| 21 | exactly , so if it still happens in the future we have n't moved full forward have we ? |
| 22 | They have accepted the idea that matter is formed as the Universe expands , and will possibly be destroyed if it ever happens to contract . |
| 23 | But they promise solemnly to retire forever if it ever happens , so you can enjoy their sharp and amusing little ditties in the secure knowledge that you 're not creating a Barron Knights for the '90s . |
| 24 | She had so much wanted to be fancied , it seemed a cruel blow to think that if it ever happened it might only be by someone as awful as Sean Walsh . |
| 25 | You 're not kidding he certainly ai n't kidding you now now it 's happened to me I know if it ever happened I know never to do it again . |
| 26 | ( If it so happens that yellow wallpaper does take away your appetite , then for you it is relevant . ) |
| 27 | Moreover we can discuss the meaning of what is being said even if it so happens that there are no trees in the park , or if all the trees happened to be the same age and none of them was an oak . |
| 28 | The reader should not reject them outright if it so happens that they do not correspond to his own personal impressions . |
| 29 | Now if it so happened that the A sixty one was seen as a marginally shorter route , then the model would have sent all the through traffic along the A s sixty one and none along around the bypass . |
| 30 | But that 's easier said than done , and you will be lucky indeed if it never happens to you . |