Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ah , child , ’ Jake whispered , ‘ there 's so much to regret in what I let happen to him . |
| 2 | I do happen to believe that certain forms of physical punishment could be effective in some cases . |
| 3 | I 'm a farmer — and if I do happen to be mixed up in other people ’ s extraordinary affairs , it 's no fault of mine . |
| 4 | Yes , I do happen to know that these are critical days . |
| 5 | But we had got on to a subject I do happen to know something about . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course , I realise that as far as you 're concerned I ca n't possibly hope to fill my predecessor 's shoes , but I do happen to be very good at my job . ’ |
| 7 | I do happen to have responsibility for nearly two thousand lives on board , though God knows my powers of concentration have been tested to the full of late . ’ |
| 8 | I mean I do happen to belong to a group of poets and we set one another subjects regularly . |
| 9 | If you do happen to swallow any bits they should pass straight through without any ill effects . |
| 10 | So if you do happen across any documents relating to her … ’ |
| 11 | That was in her favour , and if she did happen to be a female tea leaf , well , he was the last person entitled to throw stones . |
| 12 | ‘ Well — yes — she did happen to — to wonder about that . ’ |
| 13 | We can not let them get too far ahead as it will become too great a gap to close even if they did happen to fall over their showlaces again . |
| 14 | Again these things happen as they do happen , the magic narrative containing spur-ofthe-moment impulse within trancelike inevitability . |
| 15 | It interknits with that world of chances and mischances , improbable or absurd or grotesque or just neutrally happening as they do happen , which we meet everywhere in later Dostoevsky and specially in The Possessed . |
| 16 | NO one seems to take forebodings seriously , but they do happen , and they do come true , although how they work and from where they come it is hard to say . |
| 17 | If they do happen to pick up the wrong isomer erm , these isomers by the way , you 'll find things put in front of them like you often find a little d or a little l in front of the name it means dextarosatory rotated to the right and leverosatory |
| 18 | And they do happen and all . |
| 19 | They do happen , you know . |
| 20 | Then if they do happen to meet it wo n't come as such a shock to her . ’ |
| 21 | Well , at that time my best pal went to the pit , his mother would n't let him enter in th for scholarship , but he did happen to come here for , Well , he seemed to always get a day 's day release from the year dot , I think , and er eventually he got some A levels . |
| 22 | Eye-witnesses insist that it did happen and , further , that 80-odd ( or even very odd ) people showed up . |
| 23 | It did happen at times but they were usually people who fancied their power , such as city councillors . |
| 24 | Well , occasionally , it did happen that a shortage of male Jews was evident . |
| 25 | It did happen . |
| 26 | It did happen . |
| 27 | A security man who worked at Balfour 's Croydon HQ at the time said : ‘ I know it did happen . ’ |
| 28 | Was this the pilot 's dog ? — it did happen sometimes ! |
| 29 | And if it did happen , your physical health could be just the first of many things you lose , that you take for granted now . |
| 30 | It did happen , with Jasper , all the time . |