Example sentences of "has [adv] happen to " in BNC.

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1 The underlying attitude is perhaps that most people accept mentally handicapped people and are sympathetic towards them , but remain inwardly glad that it has not happened to them or to their children — ‘ there but for the grace of God , go I. ’ They also continue to believe the many myths surrounding the handicapped which have been passed on for decades .
2 And it has just happened to Kate Moss at the tender age of 18 .
3 I think the thing that occurs to me , erm , they do n't always know , erm , what has just happened to you .
4 Like my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon , before considering trust status may I refer to what has already happened to his constituents and to all the other residents in the Basildon and Thurrock health authority .
5 But the ‘ what might happen ’ has already happened to Jesus so we have nothing to fear .
6 She was anxious , for no such thing has ever happened to her before , her memory was always clear and rounded as a bell-note and utterly reliable .
7 Nothing like this has ever happened to me before . ’
8 But this is the most flattering thing that has ever happened to Howard !
9 ‘ Every day we have women come to us in shock , saying ‘ Nothing like this has ever happened to me before .
10 Nothing like that has ever happened to me before . ’
11 I 'm not sure that this has ever happened to me before .
12 If this has ever happened to you then Thames police are offering a golden opportunity to improve your driving .
13 Everything of importance has always happened to me in the autumn , every new departure has always presented itself within a dying context .
14 A similar thing has also happened to a smaller Oranda , but not severely .
15 When people make up stories , they often start from something that has really happened to them .
16 And then not an awful lot has really happened to you .
17 But that has n't happened to our European competitors , who have more bank holidays than the British .
18 The sanitation has improved since the merchant 's time , but it 's somewhere to treasure as much for what has n't happened to it as for what has .
19 First of all there is the inevitable sense of shock , what psychologists call denial : ‘ This thing has n't happened to me , it ca n't be true . ’
20 Do n't tell me this has n't happened to you .
21 Find Sophie again , because something was happening there that has n't happened to me in a hell of a long time .
22 ‘ But supposing it has n't happened to anyone else , ’ Felicity said .
23 Right , now that has n't happened to quite the same degree in , in agriculture , because a lot of agriculture erm , the protectionism that we 've given is in terms of high , high prices .
24 In the old days when there was a possibility of of erm ad hoc payments made , er that sort of thing was taken of , since the takeover of the company , that has n't happened to the same extent so there 's a very strong feeling with the older pay er pensioners that they paid money into a pension scheme which now shows a surplus , but other people are benefiting from it .
25 In the old days when there was a possibility of of erm ad hoc payments made er that sort of thing was taken care of , since the takeover of the company that has n't happened to the same extent , so there 's a very strong feeling with the older pay er pensioners that they paid money into a pension scheme which now shows a surplus , but other people are benefiting from it .
26 The primary aims are to establish an analytical framework in which the effects of ownership changes on corporate behaviour and performance can be modelled ; to compare what has actually happened to the organisation of nationalised and denationalised firms in France and Britain : and to devise appropriate tools and data sets for later empirical and econometric investigation .
27 What has actually happened to them is not always clear from the balance sheet .
28 What has actually happened to them is not always clear from the balance sheet .
29 This is not always the case , though — I once had a kestrel that I 'd decided from its plumage was a male and it turned out to be a female , and although this has never happened to me with a barn owl , I know people who 've made that mistake .
30 I have , on occasion , bought sticks of pastel which have crumbled into pieces when I removed the paper wrapper — this has NEVER happened to me with Schmincke pastels .
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