Example sentences of "and [pron] happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He nearly kills people and nothing happens to him . |
| 2 | This occurred on take-off one evening and I happened to be in the Met Office at the time . |
| 3 | Oh and I happened to be standing in the back kitchen you know and I got hold of this saucepan and I picked my little brother up and put him under my arm in case he got hurt and I oh I belted my father from his head to his feet with the saucepan . |
| 4 | He was exiting the Commons Chamber at the end of Prime Minister 's Question Time and I happened to be walking along the corridor which he was entering . |
| 5 | That 's not too bad actually except the day the young men loaded it back onto the trailer when we 'd finished and it was one of these corners , and I happened to be muggins on the corner where that lever was , and he had n't tied it , it was only in the ratchet , you know , he should have tied it of course . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's a mug 's game and I happen to be very good at it . |
| 7 | I know Gilbert Racy and I happen to be on holiday in Hereward 's parish . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I guess I threw myself at you because of everything that had happened between Jonathan and myself ; I guess I was just looking for a diversion and you happened to be in the right place at the right time . ’ |
| 9 | If you'se happen to be comin' here to Dublin at some time or other in the future — which praise the Lord you will be , for t is God 's own city — and you happen to be driving down O'Connell Street and you see me standin' here like dis , with me arms up ; then whether I 'm here or not , you stop . ’ |
| 10 | Right , that was a very big statement , the youth of the world and you happen to be the youth of the world , there 's a lot of you , so how , there you are , you 're in charge of the world , how are you going to do just that ? |
| 11 | I 'll grantcha if you 're a citizen of the union living in South America , the West Indies or the Pacific and you happen to be a member of the French colonies , you 'll have a vote in the European parliament in the elections . |
| 12 | I know it 's not something that most of you are used to talking on a day to day basis , and if you go back to your workplace and you happen to be in a very male dominated workplace , it 's not necessarily gon na be the easiest thing to broach with your colleagues when you get back . |
| 13 | He was saved by a radio engineer who had studied in England and who happened to be monitoring the audition . |
| 14 | I returned to the spot where my home once stood , looked affectionately at Tony 's bright plastic ball in the knot of pampas , and left a plastic message pad beside it with a message for Mina , in case the area does a timeslip again and she happens to be there . |
| 15 | And she happened to be a Christian . |
| 16 | I could n't see many people ; most of the lights had been turned off , and we happened to be sitting in the patch of light thrown by one small lamp . |
| 17 | This is especially evident when there is more than one sergeant and there happens to be a clash of personality and leadership style between them , although senior managers within the station are sensitive to this sort of problem and switch sergeants about when it occurs . |
| 18 | The first one is called geometrical isomerism in some books not that you ever read , will read any chemistry books but just in case you stumble over one day and fall flat on your face and there happens to be a chemistry text book open and you ha , just happen to read one or two of the words as you go unconscious and in Matthew 's case if you wake up ! |
| 19 | It was alleged that at first the railway company denied that they had been travelling on the train at all , and it was indeed suggested that the two children were chance victims of the holocaust and they happened to be wandering by the railway at the time . |
| 20 | No , it was a piece I am very fond of and it happened to be in quite a few programmes at that time . |
| 21 | But because all the men were supporting Tom all the women was in a vast majority was opposed to him and they 'd vote for anybody , and it happened to be me you see . |
| 22 | After about 9 days at Gary and Kaye 's we moved to Caroline Lock 's ; she has a small flat under the house , and it happened to be vacant for a week . |
| 23 | ‘ With a three-stroke lead it 's almost inevitable that you start to look ahead and it happened to me . ’ |
| 24 | What Kafka discovers is that there is no direct relation between what I feel and what happens to me . |
| 25 | A key question is which of the existing ITV companies will win back their contracts — and what happens to their programmes if they do n't ? |
| 26 | What happens to your spirit and what happens to your body ’ ? ’ |
| 27 | So how does the committee operate and what happens to the results of its deliberations ? |
| 28 | And what happens to them , again , through the Occupational Health Centre , th they arra arrange for an optician to give them a full , full eye test and then we get a report back on that situation . |
| 29 | ‘ And what happens to the rest ? ’ |
| 30 | And what happens to the drum ? |