Example sentences of "things [verb] [not/n't] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disaster was all the more stunning because people had come to assume that such things did n't happen . |
| 2 | Prices came down in the street and as for having a purse snatched , well , such things did n't happen to army wives . |
| 3 | That 's what we got the union for , to make sure that these things did not happen . |
| 4 | ‘ It will take a long time , we are just emerging from the dark ages , but things do n't happen if you do n't make them . |
| 5 | ‘ The soundalike things do n't happen very often . |
| 6 | These things do n't happen . ’ |
| 7 | Fortunate that things do n't happen all at the same time . |
| 8 | She thought again , Things do n't happen like this — not to people like me . |