Example sentences of "but [conj] it happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once it happened , I suppose it was inevitable . ’ |
| 2 | A private firm is also trying to start a luxury train — the Occident Express , I suppose — but if it happens the fare will be over 1500 pounds . |
| 3 | But if it happens again , please know that you can call someone — that 's what we 're here for . |
| 4 | She said : ‘ I 'm disappointed I did n't catch them but if it happens again I 'll get ‘ em . ’ |
| 5 | So , putting it another way , you do n't agree with the principle of a new settlement , but if it happened to be found elsewhere , other than Hambledon , you 'd let it ride ? |
| 6 | But until it happens , if it does happen , there 's little point in discussing it . ’ |
| 7 | She says before you were aware of it but until it happens , it really gives you such a jolt . |
| 8 | On the prototype a 100VA transformer , which was unnecessarily big , but because it happened to be standing on the shelf , was used . |
| 9 | But since it happened , in these days |
| 10 | But while it happens , the big banks will be taking the strain of the smaller ones . |
| 11 | Today there are other causes for a decline but when it happens unemployment spreads in the same way , from one industry to another . |
| 12 | But when it happens in our waking life , we tend to dismiss such incidents as meaningless . |
| 13 | ‘ But when it happens to you in that way it 's another ball game entirely . |
| 14 | ‘ We have contingency plans for a major incident like this but when it happens it is very difficult to cope . |
| 15 | The marriage , which was a political one , took some time to complete , since bride and groom passed a whole month in Saint-Jean before the ceremony ; but when it happened it was very splendid , with much bestowing of jewels , especially by the wealthy minister , Cardinal Mazarin , whose niece Louis had originally been most anxious to marry but who was opportunely exiled by her uncle in the interests of the nation . |
| 16 | I 'd always known he was going to die , and so had he , really , but when it happened — it was a long time before I could really face it . |
| 17 | But as it happens , I have something to convey to you . ’ |
| 18 | But as it happens , I do have something to say . |
| 19 | They were lies , but as it happens I had met him before . |
| 20 | South America could easily have had a marsupial anteater , alongside its marsupial sabre-tooth " tiger " , but as it happens the anteater trade was early filled by placental mammals instead . |
| 21 | ‘ It suggests nothing of the sort but as it happens you are partly right . |
| 22 | I wondered how I should broach this subject but as it happened , Dame Edna opened her heart . |
| 23 | One did not have to attend school meals with the boys over the week-end if one was off duty ; and the only master who might have noticed I had been away was Méli himself , but as it happened he 'd been in Athens . |
| 24 | One of the factors that led me to sign up with the DIA was the idea that I might be able to do something for my friend Jerry Levin , who had been taken hostage in Beirut by Hezbollah , but as it happened he was released before I got out there . |
| 25 | They had to pass the restaurant in order to reach the right road ; but as it happened nobody even looked at them . |