Example sentences of "[pron] happens to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He nearly kills people and nothing happens to him . |
| 2 | I mean you will you will go on merrily your own sweet way and erm I I hope nothing happens to sort of |
| 3 | Just nothing happens to it . |
| 4 | and they revolt against it and you 've just got ta keep your fingers crossed that nothing happens to them in that period . |
| 5 | They say that ‘ nothing happens to the bad ‘ uns ’ , but it seemed unbelievable that misfortune should strike Arthur yet again directly after his triumphs at the Horse of The Year Show . |
| 6 | Would n't you agree that in normal day to day language if we see a line of cars going down a road and one of them happens to be a Rolls Royce we would say , that 's the quality car ? |
| 7 | And over the whole six-year period 1979-85 the average growth of M3 was 13 per cent , which happens to be exactly the same as it was between 1965 and 1973 , the period analysed by William Rees-Mogg in his famous article in The Times ( 13 June 1976 ) , ‘ How a 9.4 per cent excess money supply gave Britain 9.4 per cent inflation ’ , which denounced the conduct of economic policy in the early Seventies . |
| 8 | Last week 's ‘ new cruzados ’ , ravaged by inflation , are blocked and replaced by cruzeiros ( which happens to be what the currency was called up till 1986 ) . |
| 9 | Any significant stroke or head injury which happens to a person within a marriage , friendship or family situation alters your possible future plans as well as your day-to-day life . |
| 10 | It collapses onto the ground , which happens to be a deep pile of manure , and it lies there until it is trampled to death by the other cows which are milling continually around it . |
| 11 | The last sentence of each of ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) is structurally ambiguous between putting some biscuits into a bowl which happens to be on the floor , and putting some biscuits , which happen to be in a bowl , on the floor . |
| 12 | A gradual change or deterioration of each of the body 's systems which happens to everyone between childhood and old age . |
| 13 | The ideal , preferred temperature for feline food is 86°F , which happens to be the same temperature as the cat 's tongue . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , the Cane Toad does n't warrant inclusion , because anybody who scrapes the skin off the toad would find themselves in possession of a substance called Bufotenine , which happens to be listed as a Class A drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 . |
| 15 | Are you , the haulier , agreeing , for example , to supply a particular vehicle for haulage or to supply any lorry which happens to be available at the time the contract needs to be undertaken ? |
| 16 | Only if it means ‘ Because it is presenting a larger appearance ’ is it to give an answer , one which happens to be wrong . |
| 17 | Furthermore , since learning is something which happens to the individual and not to the group , the value of the individual to the group should be stressed . |
| 18 | Is there any reason to suppose that individual decisions on family size will result in an average which happens to be the replacement rate ? |
| 19 | So a Gettier counter-example is one in which a has a justified but false belief by inference from which he justifiably believes something which happens to be true , and so arrives at a justified true belief which is not knowledge . |
| 20 | And there , as someone else said , erm earlier , organizing their party , the day of their life which happens to be also their wedding day , and those sort of parties are far more fun to work at than the far more stilted family affairs that do happen for younger people . |
| 21 | And what I mean by that is for example er a pan like that we can buy for a quid which happens to be a . |
| 22 | It 's just a graph of a function which happens to be a straight line . |
| 23 | But because you do n't that amount has n't been withdrawn from that two twenty five , so that in the next year you put in your eighteen hundred and at the end of that year you get interest on three thousand eight hundred and of course the two twenty five which happens to be three seventy seven , so at that second year you start getting interest on the fifty six pounds that you have n't been required to pay . |
| 24 | These journeys , operated by Edinburgh Transport and S.M.T. under contract to Lothian Regional Council , are specified so as to give residents of Ratho an opportunity to reach the nearest large shopping and business centre , which happens to be Edinburgh . |
| 25 | My hon. Friends and I feel justified in asking for a special debate to call attention to the ridiculous fact that , at Humberstone , which is part of the EDDR route , a mile of new road costing £1.5 million has stood finished and unopened for over a year , while the county and city councils argue about a proposed route by the side of the clinic on Scraptoft lane through a recreation area which happens to be owned by the city council . |
| 26 | Now we 're part of government policy which happens to be hear no evil see no evil … one bloody monkey 's enough if he 's in the top job . |
| 27 | ‘ Something to do with the Second World War , Superintendent , which happens to be an area I 've written about myself . ’ |
| 28 | As I understand it the Cleveland structure plan proposes the same number of dwellings for erm its next period which happens to be fourteen years , as it did for the last fourteen of the of the previous structure plan , fifteen thousand seven hundred . |
| 29 | Now what , what was left was a guideline for economic development other , of sixty five thousand , which happens to be equivalent to pollution prevention schemes at one , but was certainly not earmarked to anything in particular , it was just a guideline that they were thinking of , and I , I think it would be a help to Policy Panel and Policy and Resources Committee , to obtain a response to that non-identified sixty five thousand pound item . |
| 30 | The R Y A does n't need an enormous subscription income and so if we could increase personal membership to say four hundred and eighty thousand , which happens to be the aggregate membership of our member clubs , this could be at a very much lower individual subscription and this in turn would facilitate selling membership to the nearly two million yachts persons who are not members of clubs . |