Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] happens " in BNC.
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| 1 | However when cheek meets apathy , nothing apparently happens . |
| 2 | One of them , Mr Bob Monkhouse , the entertainer , said : ‘ Nothing ever happens here and we never see the police unless our burglar alarm goes off unexpectedly . ’ |
| 3 | Nothing ever happens there . ’ |
| 4 | Please have an article on this situation , not in London , not in Manchester , but a small town where people believe , rightly or wrongly , that nothing ever happens . |
| 5 | Er n nothing ever happens up there that 's why people are so disillusioned with politics altogether . |
| 6 | The intersection is on your route home , and you do it every day , and nothing ever happens . |
| 7 | Nothing ever happens on Just Like Home — that 's the name of the planet I live on . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's the kind of place that no one ever hears of , where nothing ever happens . |
| 9 | It 's too quiet in the countryside , nothing ever happens . |
| 10 | Whatever that one was , and , and coming rushing out of the place waiving your hand , and nothing ever happens , the guy never sends is . |
| 11 | Just Like A Man , As Soon As The Tide Comes and Surface Of The Moon all received favourable receptions from the polite audience but it was left to Spit In The Rain , Stone Cold Sober and the band 's ode to suburbia Nothing Ever Happens , to set Middlesbrough Town Hall alight . |
| 12 | Great chart success has eluded the band , but they made a dent on the charts two years ago with Nothing Ever Happens . |
| 13 | Once a strip of new ocean floor has been formed , and acquired its magnetic recording , nothing further happens to it , but it continues to move away slowly from the ridge , at a rate of anything up to several centimetres per year . |
| 14 | Something just happens … it 's not very often … once in every three weeks about … |
| 15 | Something just happens . |
| 16 | Well they 'd see there were problems , you see , faith does n't mean that everything just happens , because faith has got ta do something , faith without works is dead . |
| 17 | Something always happens and someone always has to deal with ( or avoid ) what has occurred . |
| 18 | So it , it 's not until something really happens |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps the best we can hope for is to conduct here a kind of uneasy holding operation until something else happens in another place ’ — but in most other respects , certainly in conclusions and prescription , they diverged to the point of confrontation . |
| 20 | Erm , but we are n't going to the sort of , end of degree , that er , I say this , and then you sort of enter stage left and say this , and I respond like this , and then erm , something else happens , and then somebody comes crashing in through the door . |
| 21 | Everything nice happens to me in the autumn . |
| 22 | Whatever you call it , this is the department that makes sure that everything actually happens , working in close liaison with the account executive . |
| 23 | ‘ Close to Eden is a good looking film let down by a convoluted and complex plot in which nothing really happens . |
| 24 | as if nothing bad happens here . ’ |
| 25 | Assuming nothing else happens . ’ |
| 26 | However , with the sticky label approach and the possibly dangerous method of fitting the power supply — the mains hum will affect the picture quality if nothing else happens — the unit slips into the second rank . |
| 27 | If nothing else happens , we are in the world of monetary base control . |
| 28 | Probably what goes in and nothing else happens . |
| 29 | In the absence of a clock pulse to CK2 , nothing yet happens at the second flip-flop and X2 remains off . |
| 30 | She made me promise to destroy them , ‘ if anything ever happens to me ’ , she said . |