Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb -s] [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | To expect a sudden conversion to spiritual belief is to expect too much ( although it does sometimes happen ) and fortunately it is completely unnecessary . |
| 2 | She had been standing on the pavement , holding some silly banner — ‘ EDUCATION CUTS ARE NOT COMIC ’ , or something like that — talking and laughing excitedly with a big-bosomed woman stuffed into a scarlet ski-suit and pink moon boots , and he remembered thinking to himself : so it 's finally happened — designer industrial action . |
| 3 | It might not be easy , but even if something has already happened that you have never told before , try to tell now . |
| 4 | I 'd better go to the embassy to check if anything 's actually happened today . |
| 5 | And I think that 's the , the problem with your focus , because what has really happened , over the last , well I suppose since your government 's been in power even , or even before . |
| 6 | Madam Speaker I r the er honourable gentleman must have a rather er curious source for his statistics because what has actually happened is not merely that the government have protected the real value of the state retirement pension but the combination of our policies both in social security , in the pensions field and in the economic world have led to a position in which pensioners average real incomes have risen more than forty percent since this government took office . |
| 7 | Matthew Spender 's writing is at its best remembering the past as though it has just happened . |