Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] not happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some try to explain the miracles away and say that they did not happen . |
| 2 | They did not happen that often — at least the meals happened , but not often with such unanimity of good humour . |
| 3 | The nemesis for this pure empiricism is that some ‘ megatrends ’ may be greatly exaggerated ; the outcome of some social and political conflicts may be wrongly estimated and some ‘ megatrends ’ may be omitted altogether , if they do not happen to slot into the chosen classification system . |
| 4 | C&P has fully investigated the incidents and is taking steps to ensure they do not happen again . |
| 5 | As we know , it did not happen . |
| 6 | History records that it did not happen ; the RCP was marginalised by the post-war economic revival . |
| 7 | As Augustine pointed out , creation did not happen literally ‘ in the beginning ’ for it did not happen ‘ in ’ time : rather , time was itself a part of creation . |
| 8 | Just occasionally Nails managed it , and saw that finding the rhythm and rising and falling to it was the nub of the whole uncomfortable business , but it did not happen very often . |
| 9 | It did not happen in some weird sect but in one of the largest and most prestigious Presbyterian churches in the Los Angeles area . |
| 10 | Then the roof of the grotto glowed two times lighting the water and the company a little , nothing was to be seen of the keeper or his coffin , as though it did not happen . |
| 11 | It did not happen . |
| 12 | It did not happen . |
| 13 | Freud seems to be willing to put it this way , and then to want to insist again that it was an actual deed , otherwise the impact is immediately lost once we allow ourselves to think that it did not happen . |
| 14 | It did not happen : and yet the demise of the book , the transformation of the traditional classroom , and indeed the end of schools and colleges as we now know them , have all been forecast with an almost hilarious regularity throughout the century , with the results that we see around us . |
| 15 | And it did not happen here , not at St-Jean , it happened a hundred miles away and more , across the border , at Alassio , in another country , in my country , one of my countries . |
| 16 | It did not happen . |
| 17 | However , thanks to my evasive action it did not happen . |
| 18 | Mr. Hughes : Had that happened , it would have been fine , but we know that it did not happen in the vast majority of cases . |
| 19 | But it did not happen . |
| 20 | She had been a fool to let Muriel choose a place to have lunch and would take good care that it did not happen again . |
| 21 | But it did not happen . |
| 22 | It did not happen . |
| 23 | There was also talk of his playing Timothy Evans , who was hanged for murders to which his landlord John Christie later confessed , in a film to be called The Christie Murders , but it did not happen . |
| 24 | That was a very shrewd thing to say in 1940 but it did not happen for nearly five years . |
| 25 | ‘ We have also put planks in front of the paddle to ensure it does not happen again . ’ |
| 26 | They do have a medical examination as part of the process of coming here and in the course of that medical examination it is sometimes disclosed that a woman is or is not a virgin , and that is sometimes noted on the medical report and from time to time some ECO 's have used that piece of evidence in making a decision about the relationship of the wife ; I have always condemned it and by and large it does not happen . |
| 27 | In this compartment , in this carriage , on this train , it does not happen and they move on to check the papers of the woman and her daughter . |
| 28 | It does not happen often , but when it does it is puzzling . |
| 29 | At the beginning of a relationship sex is often taken for granted as a possibility , but girls have to take care that it does not happen too easily or too often . |
| 30 | quite right in saying , it does not happen . |