Example sentences of "[indef pn] happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He nearly kills people and nothing happens to him . |
| 2 | I mean you will you will go on merrily your own sweet way and erm I I hope nothing happens to sort of |
| 3 | Just nothing happens to it . |
| 4 | and they revolt against it and you 've just got ta keep your fingers crossed that nothing happens to them in that period . |
| 5 | They say that ‘ nothing happens to the bad ‘ uns ’ , but it seemed unbelievable that misfortune should strike Arthur yet again directly after his triumphs at the Horse of The Year Show . |
| 6 | Nothing happened to either Bitov or Yurchenko on their return to Russia so obviously both were planted in the West to cause confusion and also to show their colleagues back home how badly they were treated by the Americans and British . |
| 7 | Nothing happened to me until I got off the Moon . |
| 8 | Nothing happened to me on the way to the theatre . |
| 9 | No , nothing happened to me . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , nothing happened to me . |
| 11 | But nothing happened to the man ; disappointingly , when his lorry was full he simply climbed into the cab and drove away . |
| 12 | Nothing happened to them , and that is the way institutions and local democracy will be de-valued . |
| 13 | Something happening to the horses ? ’ |
| 14 | I detect something happening to the profile of the flying binbag ; at the top of its arc the shape bulges in its upper surface , a small clenched fist bursts through , punching the dark . |
| 15 | I 've always had a rather ambivalent attitude towards something happening to my father , and it persists . |
| 16 | Playing football , telling a joke or making model aeroplanes are normally seen as second-order experiences , unless one happens to be a professional footballer , a comedian or a model aeroplane manufacturer . |
| 17 | Provided that an object is conceived to be real , reactions to it are the same in kind whether one happens to be perceiving or imagining it ; and if in the latter case one reacts less strongly , that is because one is also less aware of it . |
| 18 | It is clear that what is necessary in such a case is research , not dogmatic and perfectly arbitrary claims , based on analogies to that small part of the experimental literature in which one happens to be interested . |
| 19 | For instance , someone contemplating a sentence like the following ( from an issue of Women 's Journal ) might be excused for suspecting that so-called ‘ natural gender ’ is natural only if one happens to be male : |
| 20 | The pressure of this or that requirement or directive , together with the environment in which one happens to be , for example working under an agnostic headteacher , or a staunch Christian one , or with an enthusiastic multi-faith team , etc. , governs what happens . |
| 21 | Okay , and that one happens to be Ethel Bethel . |
| 22 | Accidents can and do happen , but if something happens to the horse , however minor , tell the owner — do n't let her find out that it has overreached or whatever , when she next looks at her horse . |
| 23 | It is always news when something happens to a tram ! |
| 24 | A trumpet arrives offering a million ducats and freedom : I 'm not going to surrender when I know I 'm going to win anyway — or at least get supplies to hang on until something happens to Zacco . |
| 25 | It 's so easy to do in rehearsal and yet , when that moment comes , something happens to your throat . |
| 26 | But , as an exile friend says , threatening to throw himself in Chihana 's footsteps , ‘ It seems the only way the media will be interested is if something happens to someone else . ’ |
| 27 | Er but again if you er something happens to them you 're more in a , you 've no other leads to your life and so you 're left on your own . |
| 28 | The fact that something happens to be legal as a matter of tradition going far back into history does not mean that it is not a vice in society . |
| 29 | Look , Fred , there 's something I think you should know , just in case — well , in case something happens to me . ’ |
| 30 | Something happens to people when they get behind the wheel of a car . |