Example sentences of "it happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that the other worrying feature about the potentially obsessive nature of programming is the point Dr Frude makes about it happening to people who are already ‘ introverted and socially inept ’ . |
| 2 | Sometimes they see things — people embracing , people dancing , people undressing — and they 're terrified of it happening to me . |
| 3 | Everybody gets phone calls like that , unfortunately occasionally , but it kind of I went through a phase of it happening to me so I therefore had to change my phone number because it was er it was really unpleasant being woken er up by these calls . |
| 4 | And did did you see th w was it widespread , did you see it happening to other people ? |
| 5 | I 'd never do that to anybody and I do n't like it happening to me . ’ |
| 6 | Nothing can bring David back but I 'm trying to stop it happening to someone else . |
| 7 | We have lived in this peaceful west Stirlingshire village for 32 years , and thought the risk of it happening to us was negligible . |
| 8 | I mean she had plenty of warning it happening to her |
| 9 | And it 's it i Seriously , it has happened a few I in my experience over the years I can remember it happening to me at least half a dozen times . |
| 10 | In this generation it happens to be me . |
| 11 | ‘ I hope I know how I would behave , but you do n't know until it happens to you . |
| 12 | But then again , how is the individual management to know if it happens to be one of those which ought to acknowledge a responsibility to maintain or lower prices , or whether it is one of the lucky ones which can be let off that responsibility ? |
| 13 | It happens to many scientists . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's a shock when it happens to you . |
| 15 | It happens to be the case that we can not , in our language , refer to the sensible properties of a thing without introducing a word or phrase which appears to stand for the thing itself as opposed to anything which may be said about it . |
| 16 | Then it happens to another dancer and , as I am watching the same pattern of recovery , the man next to me throws his arms into the air , totters forward and begins to experience apparently involuntary spasms . |
| 17 | The other conclusion is that , when it happens to you , it is an overpowering sensation . |
| 18 | It happens to the best of us . ’ |
| 19 | Luckily , it happens to one of the highest calibre . |
| 20 | I suppose that 's what every candidate thinks but in my case it happens to be true . |
| 21 | There is nothing to be ashamed of in having your tank go wrong from time to time — it happens to me too you know ! |
| 22 | This is enviable good luck and financially profitable , and when it happens to a writer whose standards are not thereby lowered only prigs will think less of the work . |
| 23 | ‘ But when it happens to you in that way it 's another ball game entirely . |
| 24 | It happens to be part of a small chain of hotels , but you can ignore the broader aspects of the company 's activities for the purposes of this particular case and treat it simply as a problem in unit management . |
| 25 | Although Uaru are not noted for equipment bashing , they have been known to move it gently aside , or even to spawn on it if it happens to be in their chosen spot . |
| 26 | ‘ If it happens to both machines it 's obvious the common factor is you , yourself . ’ |
| 27 | The fact that students ask a question about something fairly commonplace and then it happens to me must be pure co-incidence . |
| 28 | Thus free enterprise — the pursuit of fair profit , the generator of wealth and employment , the backbone on which social welfare is possible — can be viewed , at least by corporate officials , as the primary ethic for and of an industrial society , and conformity to this neutralizes any obedience to the law merely because it happens to be the law . |
| 29 | I hope that the succeeding chapters will go at least some way towards building flesh and sinew , face and character — even if it happens to be , as on Tafahi island , a North German face and character — on to the dry , lifeless bones of economists ' figures . |
| 30 | There is one summit , however , that can be attained by red-blooded fellwalkers and , by great good fortune , it happens to be a magnificent belvedere for appraising the surroundings . |