Example sentences of "something [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something just happens … it 's not very often … once in every three weeks about … |
| 2 | Something just happens . |
| 3 | This respondent echoed the thoughts of the first by concluding that ‘ … it looks as if he 's played around in the paint , trying to create something — or he 's got confused and mixed everything up and something just happened ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Something just happened . |
| 5 | Erm , oh er , in P E , erm , we 're setting up tents , and I was the bats and I 'm amazed , something just happened . |
| 6 | Something always happens and someone always has to deal with ( or avoid ) what has occurred . |
| 7 | So it , it 's not until something really happens |
| 8 | It was all a routine , a schtick he 'd pull on any sucker to convince them something really happened when you ‘ interfaced ’ . |
| 9 | For her there was always a strange excitement in his presence of something about to happen . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps the best we can hope for is to conduct here a kind of uneasy holding operation until something else happens in another place ’ — but in most other respects , certainly in conclusions and prescription , they diverged to the point of confrontation . |
| 11 | Erm , but we are n't going to the sort of , end of degree , that er , I say this , and then you sort of enter stage left and say this , and I respond like this , and then erm , something else happens , and then somebody comes crashing in through the door . |
| 12 | In the black winter of early 1947 , something else happened which was to provide a general justification for the next forty years of dredging and river clearance . |
| 13 | ‘ And after the tonsils something else happened ? ’ she said , looking for more , because he did n't seem a man to make a fuss over tonsils , but he evaded her and said only , ‘ Foul year . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ No , ’ he said , ‘ but I was there when something else happened . |
| 15 | Ooh and there 's ooh something else happened as well ! |
| 16 | So the vicar signed a missing person report to be added to the dozens of others filed that day all over the country and that until something else happened would be that . |