Example sentences of "things that [verb] happen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a unique event , Karen could file it away in her snapshot album as one of the interesting things that had happened during her holiday in France . |
| 2 | This is not a book about the experience of watching them , a collection of weird scenes inside the cinema : ‘ We were chewing the fat , telling stories about peculiar things that had happened to us at the cinema , trying to top each other . |
| 3 | Recently someone came to talk to me about things that had happened to him in his childhood . |
| 4 | It was more than 10 years before Serfaty could bring himself to speak and write about the terrible things that had happened to him and his colleagues . |
| 5 | Not for more than a few minutes ; just time enough to look around with his eyes , around and back at things that had happened to him . |
| 6 | We were disliked because of things that had happened in the past and we did n't need any motivation when we kept hearing that sort of talk . |
| 7 | Out of habit the Brigadier treated everybody as though they were local National Service boys who had grown up in the village and so knew every blade of grass as well as he did but who might be a bit hazy about certain family backgrounds and about things that had happened before their time . |
| 8 | And that night Ruth arrives home to tell Naomi of all the wonderful things that has happened to her and she hands over the result of her day 's labour . |
| 9 | But could I say to the minister that she will be aware that the South Thames tech actually is the first tech to get involved in kids club network and that one of the very useful things that has happened in my constituency is the setting up the first kids after school club in in in Vauxhall . |
| 10 | Yes it 's it 's it was one of the er advertisements or programmes that went out on radio er again this is why I 've been trying to get over to people the sad things that have to happen to animals . |
| 11 | Perhaps there have been odd , amusing little things that have happened during our day 's work , and we share these . |
| 12 | ‘ Not Dynasty -type scripts , just about normal working class families and things that have happened to me ’ |
| 13 | I usually mention the little happy things that have happened to me . |
| 14 | One of the marvellous things about this record is that there 's so many references to all sorts of things that have happened to us over the last couple of years . |
| 15 | But when times are hard , when you 're upset by things that er are wrong with patients or by things that have happened to you , then it 's nice to know that God 's always there for you . |
| 16 | erm , I like to talk , so he 's wound down , you know , really sleepy , comes to bed , and I 'm like , that 's when I wind down by chatting away and saying , you know , little snippets of things that have happened to you during the day , and he 's just like , oh , shut up , go to sleep , you know . |
| 17 | I only look towards someone like Dylan because I see the things that have happened in his career and the conclusions he 's come to and the way he 's responded to outside forces , the audience , the press … and I recognize a similarity to how I feel in my career . |
| 18 | These may be interpretations of current experiences , predictions about future events , or recollections of things that have happened in the past . |
| 19 | Being a single parent brings extra stresses to childcare , and there may be lots of things that have happened in your life that you have n't included in your letter . |
| 20 | And we may not be able to rejoice in certain things that have happened in our past . |
| 21 | We have no answers at all to the strange things that have happened in London . |
| 22 | What it actually means erm is that er there is unlikely to be a by-pass for some time , but in effect that would be likely to be the case anyway , one because of the cost of the by-pass overall and secondly because of the erm position with regard to other aspects of the roads programme and the level of T S G that we are currently receiving er even if there was an agreed line as of today erm bearing in mind the th the other things that have happened in the roads programme , it still would be unlikely that the by-pass would be er programmed in such a way that it would allow housing or other development to take place in East Grinstead within either the structure plan period or the local plan period and hence the points that then er that the report moves on to erm come into play . |
| 23 | Erm , if I could just bring the committee up to date on one or two things that have happened in relation to the district auditor 's report . |
| 24 | Yeah and erm yeah I mean that 's one of the things that tends to happen to kids and it 's almost like when you 're a kid your body is n't your own |
| 25 | They 're able to share in the joys , they consider the great things that 's happened to them . |
| 26 | And one of the things that 's happened in our business I think , erm , is that , is the fact that during the recession people stopped keeping stocks and now they do need a fairly quick delivery of , of their products . |