Example sentences of "that happen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's no-one in the world that thinks more than I do about every goddam f—ing thing that happens with us . ’ |
| 2 | Right and that 's a general reaction that happens with virtually any acid and any alkali |
| 3 | gives us the other thing that happens with them that er an acid plus a carbonate gives you carbon dioxide as well as a salt and water . |
| 4 | Now they and their mothers could share more things because they had been through the same experiences — something that happens with older mothers and their parents as well . |
| 5 | And anything that goes in between those disturbs the beam and it causes an electric current to sound the alarm and it 's the same thing that happens with the er detectors . |
| 6 | That happened that happens with all staff changes where you need a degree of skill its compounded by the fact that all nine will be changed at the same time and as I said before is a total loss of the skills base . |
| 7 | In some schools you will be asked to participate with other students in basic class work over a weekend ( as happens at the Bristol Old Vic drama school ) and in some you may find yourself being judged partly by senior students of the school who will be sitting with the faculty panel ( which is something that happens at Drama Centre ) . |
| 8 | Only thing that happens at home is Course Work and Exams . |
| 9 | It 's just one of those things that happens at parties ; people do get drunk and they do do things they would n't normally think of . |
| 10 | There 's nothing that happens on the estate which I do n't know about . |
| 11 | Daughters are losing because their parents , perhaps especially their mothers , are investing preferentially in their sons , and we know that happens on a quite vast and astonishing scale in , in societies . |
| 12 | I mean certainly there 's the horrid sort of thing that happens on date rape |
| 13 | What is it that happens on the ground that in your view makes it not far enough ? |
| 14 | It sounds like a soap opera but so does any tragedy ( ! ) that happens to real people . |
| 15 | He stares at the streets near him and hopes the grief he sees there is something that happens to other people . |
| 16 | The following remark of Dennis Altman 's , even if not strictly correct historically , rightly implies how the negation of desire and the negation of difference are in practice often inseparable : ‘ the original purpose of the categorization of homosexuals as people apart was to project the homosexuality in everyone onto a defined minority as a way of externalizing forbidden desires and reassuring the majority that homosexuality is something that happens to other people ’ ( Homosexualization , 72 ) . |
| 17 | We can be in danger of saying or feeling that bereavement is something that happens to everyone else , and that ‘ those people ’ need support , but we are perfectly able to manage on our own . |
| 18 | And something that happens to us at least five days in every month — that affects , amongst other things , our sexual feelings , and our body size and shape — why should that be unimportant ? |
| 19 | ‘ They see everything that happens to me . |
| 20 | Everything that happens to you has been chosen by your spirit so there must be a reason , even If you are unable to see it at the time . |
| 21 | People within enterprises who are designated to engage in environmental scanning ( and similar ) activities do not of course restrict themselves to that part of the total external information resource that happens to be publicly available at a specific point in time . |
| 22 | Growing old is something that happens to all of us . |
| 23 | Any animal species that happens to be superficially dull will be ignored , perhaps even maltreated . |
| 24 | It will move into any refuge that happens to be conveniently available . |
| 25 | It seems that young heterosexuals still think the disease is something that happens to others . |
| 26 | We see our own dissatisfactions , our own pointless , unfocused longings in her and we are forced , because we are shown the terrible thing that happens to her , to question aspects of ourselves which might otherwise remain unexamined . |
| 27 | ( I am reminded of a passage in a book by Doris Lessing , where she says : ‘ I want this court to condemn Volyen utterly , root and branch , for failing to instruct its young in the rules that its own psychologists and anthropologists have extracted from research and study : for failing to arm its youth with information that would enable it — the youth — to resist being swept away with any system of ideas that happens to be available ’ . ) |
| 28 | They have become devalued as people in their own right and everything that happens to them subsequently serves to reinforce this impression . |
| 29 | When it takes over your life , you know , anything that happens to you is related back to food whether it 's you know , connected or not , that is when it becomes an eating problem . |
| 30 | And when he talks about a means of grace , he means something that happens to you that can bring you to faith . |