Example sentences of "[pron] happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | To our colleague from London , let me say I happen to be a boilermaker , not because I 'm a dinosaur with me head in the past , but because that happens to be the occupation that I follow and that 's what I am . |
| 2 | And should you happen to be archaeologist , geologist , botanist , ornithologist , indeed any other sort of -ologist , then Inchnadamph National Nature Reserve will please and delight . |
| 3 | Should you happen to be driving in the vicinity of one of these ‘ sealed lorries ’ extreme caution is advised as a number of motorists have found to their cost , sometimes the spills are more substantial . |
| 4 | ‘ Should you happen to be driving in the vicinity of the lorries , extreme caution is advised . |
| 5 | Kelly notes that builders are constrained by the threat of lawsuits should something happen to a structure built outside normal building codes . |
| 6 | I will offer up these sacrifices , they 're nothing I know , but what can I do , I want to do something , give me a cart load of prickly pears and I 'll do it , I 'll spin them into fripperies for sorceresses , but please please do n't let nothing happen to me . |
| 7 | Why do they happen to me , these numb , flushed , unanswerable , these pornographic things ? |
| 8 | will it happen to me ? |
| 9 | Gradually trust developed and themes emerged : sadness , ‘ A grief with no end ’ ; anger , ‘ Why did it happen to me ? ’ ; and frustration with the professionals who could not fully understand their plight . |
| 10 | I must make it happen to myself ! |
| 11 | ‘ Why should it happen to me ? ’ |
| 12 | In addition , at a time of bereavement many people ask searching questions of the ‘ why should it happen to me ? ’ variety . |
| 13 | I 've seen it happen to a lot of good MDs that got fired . |
| 14 | Her advice is , ‘ Let it happen to you . |
| 15 | Let it happen to your partner . |
| 16 | Does it happen to you ? |
| 17 | ‘ We must n't let it happen to us , however we feel . ’ |
| 18 | I 've seen it happen to new people coming in as well . |
| 19 | Do n't let it happen to you , kids . |
| 20 | The question has to be asked : ‘ Is it me , or does it happen to other climbers as well ? ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ Why did it happen to him ? ’ |
| 22 | So why should it happen to me ? |
| 23 | In a wedding photograph , the interesting faces are not those of the bride and groom , but of the encircling guests : the bride 's younger sister ( will it happen to me , the tremendous thing ? ) , the groom 's elder brother ( will she let him down like that bitch did me ? ) , the bride 's mother ( how it takes me back ) , the groom 's father ( if the lad knew what I know now if only I 'd known what I know now ) , the priest ( strange how even the tongue-tied are moved to eloquence by these ancient vows ) , the scowling adolescent ( what do they want to get married for ? ) , and so on . |
| 24 | And dear Lady , Mother of God , please do n't let it happen to me . ’ |
| 25 | She had seen it happen to others many a time . |
| 26 | Will it happen to me , she thought , when , or if , I ever have a child ? |
| 27 | Does n't it happen to us ? |
| 28 | Fran could n't in all conscience let it happen to Luke Calder now if there was a chance that she could help prevent it . |
| 29 | Do not let it happen to you also . ’ |
| 30 | And frankly I think it and I hope to God that John I d I know he does n't want to see it happen to him , I hope to God it does n't . |