Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you 're not satisfied with what is happening or not happening you should say something but grandma insists that she must n't upset |
| 2 | It helps if you play for Swindon Town , or just happen to be a Formula One motor racing champion , but could we persuade Peter to add a Television Presenter to his collection ? |
| 3 | Physical co-ordination can suffer : plates are dropped , and more serious accidents can happen , or nearly happen , as one steps off the kerb or pulls out without looking . |
| 4 | He drops , or there happen to be dropped , sore words like ‘ Napoleon ’ and ‘ axe ’ into his discourse . |
| 5 | The smoke is probably unburnt fuel If the carb is a little bit worn it will do this The Solex carb is more prone to this than the later Zenith It may also be slight oil burning which is also very common as the engine starts and only happens for a few seconds This is a ‘ feature ’ of Land Rovers and is not really cause for concern |
| 6 | In some cases the two components of a double are not genuinely associated , and merely happen to lie in almost the same line of sight as seen from Earth . |
| 7 | They plan to rob a toy store on Christmas Eve and just happen to bounce up against Macaulay in a busy New York street . |
| 8 | You 've been bothered by something for ages and just happen to mention it somebody as you 're walking by , Oh yes . |
| 9 | Roger Yeoman was passing one morning , and just happened to notice movement under the surface . |
| 10 | So it should be assumed that a similar number of those who changed in the ‘ right ’ direction were similarly ill-informed about their new choice , and just happened to end up in the ‘ right ’ group by chance . |
| 11 | I was chatting to her one lunch-time and just happened to mention that I kept and bred barn owls . |
| 12 | ‘ I was feeling that was a pity when some hours later I was coming out of a supermarket and just happened to bump into Sheena again , and we arranged to make contact again , ’ says Betty . |
| 13 | Well from the hotel , we walked down and just happened to take , and where , where this chap that we met at that had this hotel in Eastbourne . |
| 14 | ‘ He is warning me about my death , ’ Alexander announced quietly , ‘ Violent and soon to happen ! ’ |
| 15 | Look what was threatened and nearly happened to the Falls Women 's Centre , and it 's not just in West Belfast ; the same is happening in Ballybeen on the other side of the city . |
| 16 | Note however that the assertion unc is certainly one which is meaningful — and also happens to be true ! |
| 17 | Next week is the last programme from the current batch of Ideas in Action , and also happens to be our hundredth programme . |
| 18 | He had fought the Japanese and also happened to be Communist . |
| 19 | Only talk about things that are true and really happened . |
| 20 | I railed at the NSS typesetters and then happened to look at my own copy and saw that the mistake was entirely mine . |
| 21 | If something with an improbability of one dealion was predicted and then happened , we should diagnose a miracle unless , which is more probable , we suspected fraud . |
| 22 | I do n't want vast numbers of rare and special tropicals in the tank ( on this occasion ) but do want to indulge my taste for shoals of fish , which is what nature intended in most cases but rarely happens . |
| 23 | The Hyades , extending from the bright orange star Aldebaran in Taurus ( the Bull ) cover a much wider area than the Pleiades , and are also somewhat overpowered by Aldebaran , which does not actually belong to the cluster at all , but merely happens to lie about midway between the Hyades and ourselves . |
| 24 | Less on on er less unless unless we split full pages and go into halves and that brings in the same sort of revenue thereabouts but just happens to spread |
| 25 | The Swiss-based firm , Ciba-Geigy , says that the spraying of unsuspecting individuals is ‘ rare ’ but still happens . |
| 26 | Their exposure to the property market is unusually large ; a sharp fall in Japanese property values , long predicted but yet to happen , could make them wobble . |