Example sentences of "things that happen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a matter of fact , all the playing that I do , the fingering and the fast stuff that I try to do , does n't turn me on half as much as the accidental feedbacks and things that happen with the more experimental side of my guitar playing . |
| 2 | Is n't it awful , ’ said Breeze , ‘ that so many of the nice things that happen to one person have a sort of reflex action on another ? |
| 3 | Despite all the things that happen to us , such as religious conversion , dreams , accidents , bereavement , psychological shock — all those things that pull us out of everyday reality — we tend to slip back to a belief that there is a bedrock of common sense and sensibility at the heart of things . |
| 4 | The observable things that happen to the child immediately after the problem behaviour occurs . |
| 5 | You will make decisions , have adventures and then describe the things that happen to you . |
| 6 | She was encouraged , because it seemed she could rely absolutely on that devoted attention , but discouraged , too , because he looked and was so young , and what could he know of marriage and widowhood , and the things that happen to women ? |
| 7 | If we equate God 's blessing with the nice things that happen to us then they were not blessed ! |
| 8 | I mean , I 'm not into things that happen for effect or for taste ; I like doing things that mean something . |
| 9 | It would enclose within it , a traditional economic development strategy for the work this Committee 's helping , but it should look in a wider issue , and seek to influence wider , wider things that happen within the county . |
| 10 | Then , as Alex Saward , Harlequins ' press officer , put it , ‘ one of those things that happen in rugby ’ happened . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ There are things that happen in life over which you have no control . |
| 12 | Erm I was looking through some of the books for some of the startling figures and things that happen in world trade . |
| 13 | And how they choose to spend it can affect things that happen in the world . |
| 14 | ( a ) Why might society wish to ban drugs that neither help nor harm the diseases they are claimed to cure ? ( b ) It is sometimes argued that regulatory bodies will be blamed for bad things that happen in spite of the regulations ( e.g. a plane crash ) but not blamed so much for good things that are prevented ( e.g. the quick availability of a safe and useful drug ) by stringent tests and regulations . |
| 15 | Erm there are different things that e effect consumer policy , environmental policy , and there are lots of things that happen in the educational field . |
| 16 | Yeah it 's for some er it 's for somebody to get a general idea of the kind of things that happen in lectures . |
| 17 | It 's almost always about the sort of fringe things that happen in schools , the not strictly educational erm organisational matters about when to bring bits of equipment and which day the term 's going to finish , but very few schools put much into writing about how they teach maths , or what the children are going to be doing that term as a topic . |