Example sentences of "they [verb] [not/n't] 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 | When you talked to judges in the Sixties , they might have told you they did n't happen at all or would be willing to concede that a miscarriage might take place once every 10 years . ’ |
| 4 | I reply : do you think they did n't happen ? |
| 5 | They did n't happen often , and could come at the unlikeliest times and places . |
| 6 | We try to keep aberrations like that to an absolute minimum — we 'd rather they did n't happen at all , obviously , but every so often the gremlins creep in . |
| 7 | The Government flies these kites of disinformation then people feel grateful when they do n't happen . |
| 8 | Those jobs where we 've done badly because we can learn why they went badly and make sure that they do n't happen again . |
| 9 | If you look at a full page when they happen , they do n't happen all that often on a schools portfolio which costs two thousand two hundred pounds , you 'll see there 's there 's already three different prices |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | C&P has fully investigated the incidents and is taking steps to ensure they do not happen again . |