Example sentences of "and [pron] [adv] happen " in BNC.

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1 Probably what goes in and nothing else happens .
2 The intersection is on your route home , and you do it every day , and nothing ever happens .
3 Whatever that one was , and , and coming rushing out of the place waiving your hand , and nothing ever happens , the guy never sends is .
4 In Ardeevan we just lay and rotted and nothing ever happened between Doctor Staples 's weekly rounds – except that someone died .
5 And I just happen to have with me
6 And I just happen to have her long sky-blue evening skirt , that needed the seam stitched .
7 They just put me up for it and I just happened to be about at the time .
8 I knew the sound that I wanted , in my head , and I just happened to find this old AC30 which belonged to a friend of mine .
9 She was going through a traumatic divorce at the time and it was obvious she needed someone to talk to and I just happened to be around .
10 But there were loads of spaces and I also happen to know that if you do n't stay long the hotel management does n't mind . ’
11 and you just happen to be taller and heavier than James
12 We were able to help him … we can see their house from our bedroom and we just happened to be looking out of the window at the time , do n't you know . ’
13 And we just happened to see it as were was coming back from Thurmaston we popped in and sa granddad got a
14 I was received as a thief , a well-mannered rapist , bucketless car-washer , double-glazing runner , not to mention corrupt informant that some of them tiles is loose , Ma 'm , and we just happen to be in the area with a long ladder so why not call it eighty quid ?
15 This respondent echoed the thoughts of the first by concluding that ‘ … it looks as if he 's played around in the paint , trying to create something — or he 's got confused and mixed everything up and something just happened ’ .
16 ‘ Three bottles thrown out to sea and they just happen to meet up a thousand miles away .
17 And they just happen to be two of the best tracks .
18 And they just happen to be attached to a saint !
19 I would n't say they were lucky against Oldham , but everything ran for them today , the underside of the crossbar and the post saved Charlton on a couple of occasions and as Simpson said I think ‘ Bolder on a couple of occasions really knew nothing about the saves he 'd made , they were point blank , and he just happened to be there . ’
20 We were going to have an 80-foot Brussels sprout flying above Battersea Power Station — and it nearly happened !
21 ‘ The fight I 'd love would be against McMillan and it nearly happened before he lost his WBO title .
22 However , practice differs and it invariably happens that express provision is made only regarding two areas : non-competition/canvassing and non-disclosure/use of business secrets .
23 In consequence , many Members who put their names down will have only ill-formed ideas about what they want and it frequently happens that Bills presented are ill-prepared or misconceived .
24 And it even happens where the clays which overlie the chalk , the tertiary clays which you can see for example in the top of the cliffs at Newhaven , and if you look back at the cliff from the western breakwater for example you can see clay sitting on top of chalk .
25 His argument is that the density wave is of a different kind , the so called long wave mode , which propagates from the centre of the Galaxy outward , such a wave pattern rotates much more rapidly than the short wave mode and it just happens that , if this picture is correct , our Solar System is almost exactly at the place in our Galaxy where it orbits at the same speed as the wave ( Astrophysics and Space Science , vol 89 , p 61 ) .
26 And it just happens that Digital is the only company to make it work .
27 There was no colour bar , because normal rules are applied for the selection of recruits and it just happens that black and Asian people fall the tests .
28 And it just happened .
29 Well , we got friendly , Mary and me , and it just happened , then it became regular like … ’
30 So it was , the prophecy was written then by Daniel for our , for our time and it just happened in our , because you know er , when he was er , when he finished the book write written and he said I have seen the , the , the erm visions and I 've heard the voice , but I , and I 've written down what I was told to do , but I do not understand and then the voice said to him well close that down , that book is not for you to understand , the generations that it 's written for , it 's written for the end of the times , they will come to understand it , and you see we actually witnessing what 's happening
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