Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of guarantees that the story really happened , we get promises that it has all been made up . |
| 2 | You 'd think there 'd be fear that the ploughman would suffer damage among the horse 's hoofs , but such was the bond between them that nothing of the kind ever happened . ’ |
| 3 | If it is one of tantrums then the chart should go where the action usually happens — in living room or kitchen , for example . |
| 4 | I think Alone In the Dark just happens to be one of those games . |
| 5 | I think in terms of public order and violence on the streets , then it 's to court disaster to wait until the disruption actually happens . |
| 6 | I tell residents this but the work never happens . |
| 7 | The crash also happened just as NMW was expanding into other markets . |
| 8 | Yet , if this is so , why did the accident not happen earlier ? |
| 9 | Credit was given in the claim to the cost of whatever property the plaintiff would have purchased in any event had the accident not happened . |
| 10 | Many situations where the glider is very low and flying slowly are insoluble quite a time before the accident actually happens . |
| 11 | The vorticity intensification process will be strongest where the vorticity already happens to be large . |
| 12 | ‘ Before the band ever happened I was driving around Hammersmith roundabout and I saw ‘ Nude picture of Patsy Kensit ! ’ on a sign , and I remember being slightly jealous , thinking . |
| 13 | If the population already happens to be dominated by genes for pathway 1 , selection will favour other genes for pathway 1 , and penalize genes for pathway 2 . |
| 14 | The wedge also happens to be erotically fashionable at this time . |
| 15 | As is widely known , the race never happened . |
| 16 | It was only noticed yesterday , although the explosion apparently happened on Saturday afternoon . |
| 17 | And it is of the utmost importance to realise that the pragmatic answer to these questions is itself what makes the revolution never happen . |
| 18 | He said he 'd put them at a friend 's house for safe keeping , and the friend just happened to have gone away on holiday . |
| 19 | He 's a good-looking man , and the smile just happens to be part of the job . |
| 20 | He lowered his eyes and the smile never happened . |
| 21 | Debates on the economy usually happen only when panic has set in — which , so far , it has n't . |
| 22 | The miracle then happened . |
| 23 | A day 's golf with the president of this company or that company when the fellow who makes up the four and plays with the president of the corporation just happens to be last year 's Masters Champion . |
| 24 | The incident reportedly happened in Hollywood in 1989 and involved Gunn and another Norwich player . |
| 25 | Always we are talking only about incidental consequences , events which follow from properties that the replicator just happens to have . |
| 26 | The project never happened , plans were shelved . |
| 27 | Local DUP councillor Mervyn Carrick said the bombing only happened because of the Government 's ‘ ineffective security policy . |
| 28 | Once she 'd taken a room in a village where the bus just happened to stop . |
| 29 | By allowing the NSA to tap the call in Britain GCHQ had not been involved and , since the presence of the NSA in Britain is not officially admitted , the government could claim the interception never happened . |
| 30 | The pile up happened 200m out as the Germans were turned . |