Example sentences of "[pron] never happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | The content was precisely the same sort of thing as the play 's having begun on Saturn with Helen of Troy in the audience , which never happened . |
| 2 | Had they never happened , you would never have become the person you are today . |
| 3 | Products tend to be misplaced or even completely lost or they get in the way but somehow they never happen to be available when wanted . |
| 4 | The idea is not to block them out or pretend that they never happened — indeed you would be building up a store of problems for the future If you did so — but to prevent them forming part of your future . |
| 5 | In what seems like a big complement on our powers of imagination , Unix System Laboratories chief Roel Pieper and Chuck Reilly , vice president of operations at the Open Software Foundation have been re-writing history , claiming at Utrecht a few weeks back that the press made up the entire Unix Wars all by themselves : ‘ they never happened ’ pleaded Rielly , who did n't join OSF until 1989 , after some of the worst was over . |
| 6 | Bridge-building is empty because it never happens , God-killing and god-making suicide is baffled because there is only a corpse to point at , there is nobody to attach a fulfilled ‘ free intention ’ to . |
| 7 | But that 's easier said than done , and you will be lucky indeed if it never happens to you . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose you feel it 's a way of making sure it never happens again . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We 'll make sure it never happens . ’ |
| 10 | I wo n't tell him if it never happens again . |
| 11 | It never happens completely spontaneously , even if it feels that way . |
| 12 | And we work hard , we get very little money for it , we wait to get to the top and it never happens . |
| 13 | You might say to yourself , well is this a very rare occurrence , so that really this branch is making a fuss about nothing , branches do n't have to go through appeals procedures , cos it never happens . |
| 14 | If you were not contacted please let me know so that it never happens again . |
| 15 | I realize that , you know I would say five of them five people in both departments champion of champions let's hope that it never happens again , you know , these things do happen . |
| 16 | She wants the sentences increased so it never happens again . |
| 17 | Frau Geller murmured something to her companion about it never happening to a woman unless she 'd been asking for it . |
| 18 | Yes , I wanted to do a production with Balanchine , but it never happened , and now there is no one I can think I would want to do it with . |
| 19 | Without giving it much thought , we all assumed that after the present infatuations had cooled down , Andrew would marry Judith , but it never happened , although he did marry twice during his later years in Toronto . |
| 20 | We were once promised something of the sort from Anna Ford back at ITN , but it never happened . |
| 21 | Do they bring the doubt out into the open to examine it or silence it and pretend it never happened ? |
| 22 | Of course it never happened , but he definitely wanted to do it . |
| 23 | The answer , of course , is that it has never happened , and if it ever did there would be immediate and radical constitutional change to ensure it never happened again . |
| 24 | ‘ It never happened to me , but it has happened before , ’ said the Celtic boss . |
| 25 | The friend said : ‘ The ideal solution would have been for Camilla to break off with Andrew , but it never happened . |
| 26 | It never happened in my time . ’ |
| 27 | A year ago he was promising economic growth in the UK , which should by now have been accelerating to three per cent per year but , of course , it never happened . |
| 28 | It never happened . ’ |
| 29 | They insisted it never happened . |
| 30 | If she relied on him for anything , it never happened . |