Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course nothing happened . |
| 2 | Normally during the day I keep it shut because that 's the place we like to keep clean , in case someone happens to come over and does n't want to be knee-deep in children . |
| 3 | People could hardly carry sombre clothes with them , just in case someone happened to die … |
| 4 | We recently did a simple experiment which happens to illustrate how children 's knowledge of where an object is determines their behaviour . |
| 5 | Can anyone help with any information about a nasty scrape to my car which happened sometime during the day at Rutherford . |
| 6 | I had recorded my favourite radio serial one evening , along with twenty minutes of a programme which happened to follow it . |
| 7 | That is probably the worst one day figure which happened , as I say , combination of war and the snow , when the shops were pretty well closed off , and yes we certainly saw figures that , on a day for day basis to last year , they were seventy five per cent down , but cumulative I mean the position 's much better than that erm nowhere near that sort of figure , and erm we are very confident that the summer market for overseas holidays will recover steadily and we 'd be very surprised if , by the end of September , we 're more than five or six per cent down on summer holiday bookings compared to last year , and we 're confident enough to have brought back our campaigns and our advertising starts this week , and we 've even been confident enough to announce to our staff that their annual salary review will take place on the first of April as scheduled . |
| 8 | So we entered a genteel teashoppe/cafe which happened to be handy and ordered coffee , as so often before . |
| 9 | The following interesting account of a waterspout which happened about the middle of the 18th century is copied from Mr. Hutchinson . |
| 10 | ‘ Is it your habit to accept lifts from any stranger who happens upon you ? ’ |
| 11 | A priest who happened to be visiting my mother volunteered to stay on one of these occasions , but the screams drove him out . |
| 12 | This can present a problem id you happen to be the unhappy owner of a particularly noisy air pump . |
| 13 | And that happened at 23 with an actress who happened to take me under her wing , so to speak . |
| 14 | The same is true , whatever kind of PC , workstation or network terminal you happen to choose — from the powerful PC 486 family to the sophisticated Towerview networking X-stations . |
| 15 | And that 's a lot of dead people … and innocent people , whichever side they happen to be on . ’ |
| 16 | A : Neutrality concerning each person 's chances of implementing the ideal of the good he happens to have . |
| 17 | In an aunt 's loft he happened to chance across what he regards as his first hoard : a collection of dust-covered National Geographic magazines . |
| 18 | Unable to see beyond the short-term gain he went from whim to whim , reacting without thought to whatever gossip he happened to have heard last . |
| 19 | If you come out of a swimming pool and stand at the side what happens to you ? |
| 20 | Study what happens in 12 x 9 ÷ 9 . |
| 21 | Within a cell what happens is this right a cell , what happens is that erm D N A is copied on to something called erm R N A , which is a kind of template , messenger R N A , it 's a kind of copy and it 's a single strand , corresponding to one of the strands on the original D N A with the same base structure . |
| 22 | It was not his fault what happened . ’ |
| 23 | And rather surprisingly , bearing in mind what happens in the Endsleigh first division , that there it is goals scored that dis differentiates between teams , in this league it will be goal difference that will determine the final positions , followed then by the highest number of goals and then by the highest number of goals scored away from home . |
| 24 | When I do prison trips , I always have on my mind what happened . |
| 25 | Flushed and triumphant after this orgy of extravagance , they left the store at last , keeping an eye on the time because Mabel must n't be late with the boys ' tea whatever happened and then they had a long , annoying wait at the bus-stop . |
| 26 | th th the building went ahead and people every year or two sometimes twice in a year get flooded and they get sewages the the sewer with the volume of rain water they ca n't otherwise get away , but it brings to light what happens i i i in the ditches and , and the waterways that are spread across the direction of Airport and then out into the river when the tide is low because the switches close when the tide comes in and basically er and this is up to date information the information that I have is that the channels are the responsibility of the er you know responsibilities are either kept cleared or not clogged up and in connection with the , with the incident I , I did hear it said that in , in a place where once said it usually counts that possibly and more than the that the first flood was due because the drains and the ditches could n't take the volume of water after they were cleared and things have been pretty reasonable erm since that time , so it would seem to confirm what , what I have to say about keeping clear erm but it may be that authorities that were n't responsible had the job of cleaning them , I do n't know . |
| 27 | That 's right , and it 's no coincidence because people in the east of London on the whole get it in the neck whatever happens , and particularly with this government . |
| 28 | Can you can you tell me or have you got a pic , where does the picture usually go ? does it go right at the top or do you usually have a bit of headline what happened in that Mirror one there ? |
| 29 | More than fifty people were involved in the fight which happened earlier this month at the King Billy public house in Northampton . |
| 30 | Grunte , he opined , was ‘ a pain in the bum ’ , although he had been quite helpful over the matter of the new motorway route which happened to pass through his garden or , if not his garden , damn close . |