Example sentences of "but [pron] happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nothing happened to the man ; disappointingly , when his lorry was full he simply climbed into the cab and drove away . |
| 2 | Normally I ask for an appointment , but I happened to be passing and saw the lights — and the chopper . |
| 3 | But I happen to be living here . ’ |
| 4 | I 've been bald from a very early age , but I happen to be in the hairdressing industry and I travel all over the world teaching . |
| 5 | It was n't satisfying in terms of sound , though , because you ca n't get any sound , even though you 've got someone you consider to be the best guy out on the desk , but who happens to be three hundred yards away ! |
| 6 | But one happened to be free for a couple of hours along with the picture editor who cut Nicola 's last report . |
| 7 | Ian was not over-bright , but he happened to be popular with the other boys as he was a good footballer and did quite well at sports generally . |
| 8 | ‘ History is going to be my subject — modern history — Of course it 's a frightfully easy degree , but it happens to be what I 'm most interested in ’ ( even as she was uttering the words she was aghast ) , ‘ that , and literature naturally , and political journalism . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I know it may sound corny , but it happens to be true . |
| 10 | Perhaps you find that hard to believe , but it happens to be true . |
| 11 | Adam may have extended the invitation , but it happens to be my house . ’ |
| 12 | It may sound like a story from Boy 's Own Annual but it happens to be true . |
| 13 | ‘ No , ’ I agreed , ‘ but it happens to be true . ’ |
| 14 | So waits now as Lawrence comes up and bowls to him and this , oooh off the edge and that 's going down up towards the third man , going over the ropes down the far end and and that 's one boundary there off the edge at one hundred and thirteen for four , Lawrence wo n't be to happy about that , but it happens to all fast bowlers . |
| 15 | It was a subjective , not an objective view ; but it happened to be the attitude of a man living in the kingdom which harboured Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 16 | But it happened to be true . ’ |
| 17 | No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week . |
| 18 | I could tell you my story up until then , but it happened to someone else , an imaginary character . ’ |
| 19 | erm I ca n't roll them off and I do n't know if it applies in all of them , but it happened to me in Italy that erm I was fined on the spot . |
| 20 | But whatever happens to particular processes , it remains a general condition of modern cultural technology that it both requires social forms of production and yet , within this , under specific economic conditions , imposes not only a professional but a class division of labour . |
| 21 | For them , energy comes in joules , and force in newtons , but whatever happened to ergs and dynes ? |
| 22 | Admittedly it makes a change from Stratocasters , but whatever happened to originality ? |
| 23 | Local cells of the new party will be formed by 10 November , but what happens to the rest of the apparat is at the moment anybody 's guess . |
| 24 | But what happens to her , to me , if — made to pretend — we pretend too often ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm looking at the partnership agreement now … trm , trm , trm , here we are — death in partnership — well , it dissolves the partnership , course it does , but what happens to the money ? |
| 26 | But what happens to a noble family when it is found guilty of high treason ? ’ |
| 27 | Domestic farmers receive high , higher prices , but what happens to , to the world market ? |
| 28 | But what happens to the real wage rate following a fall in aggregate demand ? |
| 29 | But what happens to those families when they 've been housed and they gradually improve their position , do we send our officers down and say ah , you 've got some money in the bank now , you 're not in need , get out of this council house we 're gon na give it to somebody else . |
| 30 | But what happens to the five years immediately following a decennial census ? |