Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , love goes on happening to you . |
| 2 | The underlying attitude is perhaps that most people accept mentally handicapped people and are sympathetic towards them , but remain inwardly glad that it has not happened to them or to their children — ‘ there but for the grace of God , go I. ’ They also continue to believe the many myths surrounding the handicapped which have been passed on for decades . |
| 3 | And it has just happened to Kate Moss at the tender age of 18 . |
| 4 | I think the thing that occurs to me , erm , they do n't always know , erm , what has just happened to you . |
| 5 | Like my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon , before considering trust status may I refer to what has already happened to his constituents and to all the other residents in the Basildon and Thurrock health authority . |
| 6 | But the ‘ what might happen ’ has already happened to Jesus so we have nothing to fear . |
| 7 | She was anxious , for no such thing has ever happened to her before , her memory was always clear and rounded as a bell-note and utterly reliable . |
| 8 | Nothing like this has ever happened to me before . ’ |
| 9 | But this is the most flattering thing that has ever happened to Howard ! |
| 10 | ‘ Every day we have women come to us in shock , saying ‘ Nothing like this has ever happened to me before . |
| 11 | Nothing like that has ever happened to me before . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm not sure that this has ever happened to me before . |
| 13 | If this has ever happened to you then Thames police are offering a golden opportunity to improve your driving . |
| 14 | Everything of importance has always happened to me in the autumn , every new departure has always presented itself within a dying context . |
| 15 | A similar thing has also happened to a smaller Oranda , but not severely . |
| 16 | When people make up stories , they often start from something that has really happened to them . |
| 17 | And then not an awful lot has really happened to you . |
| 18 | But that has n't happened to our European competitors , who have more bank holidays than the British . |
| 19 | The sanitation has improved since the merchant 's time , but it 's somewhere to treasure as much for what has n't happened to it as for what has . |
| 20 | First of all there is the inevitable sense of shock , what psychologists call denial : ‘ This thing has n't happened to me , it ca n't be true . ’ |
| 21 | Do n't tell me this has n't happened to you . |
| 22 | Find Sophie again , because something was happening there that has n't happened to me in a hell of a long time . |
| 23 | ‘ But supposing it has n't happened to anyone else , ’ Felicity said . |
| 24 | Right , now that has n't happened to quite the same degree in , in agriculture , because a lot of agriculture erm , the protectionism that we 've given is in terms of high , high prices . |
| 25 | In the old days when there was a possibility of of erm ad hoc payments made , er that sort of thing was taken of , since the takeover of the company , that has n't happened to the same extent so there 's a very strong feeling with the older pay er pensioners that they paid money into a pension scheme which now shows a surplus , but other people are benefiting from it . |
| 26 | In the old days when there was a possibility of of erm ad hoc payments made er that sort of thing was taken care of , since the takeover of the company that has n't happened to the same extent , so there 's a very strong feeling with the older pay er pensioners that they paid money into a pension scheme which now shows a surplus , but other people are benefiting from it . |
| 27 | The primary aims are to establish an analytical framework in which the effects of ownership changes on corporate behaviour and performance can be modelled ; to compare what has actually happened to the organisation of nationalised and denationalised firms in France and Britain : and to devise appropriate tools and data sets for later empirical and econometric investigation . |
| 28 | What has actually happened to them is not always clear from the balance sheet . |
| 29 | What has actually happened to them is not always clear from the balance sheet . |
| 30 | This is not always the case , though — I once had a kestrel that I 'd decided from its plumage was a male and it turned out to be a female , and although this has never happened to me with a barn owl , I know people who 've made that mistake . |