Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] not happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other anticipated problems , like contamination of the mirror by dust around the spacecraft just did not happen . |
| 2 | However , this does not mean that his position was incompatible with individual reformation ; he just did not happen to consider it . |
| 3 | For the last six days they had clung to hope , but they finally felt it pulling away from them — the miracle they wanted just did not happen . |
| 4 | Would it not help if the board gave a written assurance to the people who 've been complaining here that they will meet them on any occasion to discuss the problem in writing please because from Brenda it appears that it just does not happen . |
| 5 | This is what the reader expects , and if you want to write a book in which this unequivocally does not happen then you probably want to write a straight novel , so off you go and do n't bother us any more . |
| 6 | I say " a book in which this unequivocally does not happen " because the happy ending which the reader insists on does not need by any means to be a simple , pure , unalloyed happy ending . |
| 7 | That simply did not happen and I was treated with the utmost courtesy and respect as a representative of a significant Church . |
| 8 | We are beginning to see that even in those cases where the child and the new family intend the placement to be adoptive , adoption sometimes does not happen . |
| 9 | This certainly did not happen . |
| 10 | And in the mixed ability situation this certainly did not happen in the same way . |
| 11 | And I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation , in the bottoms streams in particular , who found that they wanted alternatives to school , when the , they were in an inferior position in the school , they were devalued if you like by finding themselves in the bottom streams , and so they tended to look for out-of-school things , alternatives to school , from which to gain their satisfactions , and they would look to the pop media , to fashion , to football , to these kinds of things , and in the mixed ability situation this certainly did not happen in the same way . |
| 12 | And in the mixed ability situation this certainly did not happen in the same way , so the children in a sense remained children longer in the mixed ability situation , and again this was something that the teachers found very pleasing in that the pupils were remaining involved in the school much more and much longer in a mixed ability situation . |