Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] happened " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 2 | Right , why do n't we erm give Derwent two free bookings , you know bookings that have already happened or are about to happen for free , |
| 3 | ‘ Nearly all supporters feel that their relative is not safe outside on their own , they spend a lot of time sitting around at home doing nothing , they can not occupy themselves , they seem unsteady on their feet , and naturally forget things that have just happened … . |
| 4 | The same thing , if somebody 's annoying you like that , ignore them like I said , I do n't mean I wo n't just let them sit there I 'll touch my brakes a couple of times perhaps do the old bit with the mirror and like I said , normally if they 're if they 're responsible drivers that have just happened , they got a bit close then maybe they 'll drop back as I 've done |
| 5 | These things happen , and have always happened . |
| 6 | The numbers involved are about 700 and most of these job losses have now happened and indeed the bulk of them happened on the last Friday of the financial year which was last week when about 150 people took early retirement . |
| 7 | All too easily , if you pin the whole plot on something that seems to you a tremendous novelty , you can find that some writer you have n't happened to read has had much the same idea before you . |
| 8 | And we were also way off beam about unemployment being the greatest political force of the 1980s in the Third World — we predicted riots among the urban unemployed all over the world which simply have n't happened . |