Below you will find example sentences with "things happen". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Things Happen in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: happen
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 12
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 26.2 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "things happen" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and bad things happen, and bad things happen to everyone, good, bad and people stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with things differently, certain things and good things, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with things happen
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Because bad things happen in Philadelphia, bad things. (8 words)
We know that good things and bad things happen to everyone. (11 words)
Most things happen in business through teamwork, and teamwork often doesn't happen without meetings. (15 words)
But, in a world that we live in right now with tangible goals, I think it would look like the university giving students more autonomy to speak and organize and make things happen, and work with the university to make those things happen more quickly. (45 words)
As last week’s column pointed out, everyone is familiar with the adage about ifs and buts, candy and nuts and merry Christmases, and last year’s Highlander team was also very close to having good things happen — but those good things never materialized. (44 words)
She said, "I think that kind of set things off on the wrong foot too because it was like people hook up on these shows and, whatever, and these things happen, but we threw ourselves all into it very fast. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
Now I try to have a more balanced view, but dark ages DO happen, population collapses DO happen, technology gets lost and bad things happen.
In other words, it says, 'bad things happen to bad people, and good things happen to good people'.
But, in a world that we live in right now with tangible goals, I think it would look like the university giving students more autonomy to speak and organize and make things happen, and work with the university to make those things happen more quickly.
People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal.
Our politics should be about detailing how things happen and how people should be held accountable if it does not happen.
Sheriff John Grossnickle said horrific and unexplainable things happen sometimes to otherwise good people who just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Most things happen in business through teamwork, and teamwork often doesn't happen without meetings.
It should not happen that little bit of peace that we see and say, Oh, it is hunky dory and it is now time to return to the barracks and let things happen.
I just take things as they come, each day at a time, and if things happen, all well and good.
She said, "I think that kind of set things off on the wrong foot too because it was like people hook up on these shows and, whatever, and these things happen, but we threw ourselves all into it very fast.
Then there are some things we maybe expect to pop up, but there could be things happen that we don’t envisage.
We know that good things and bad things happen to everyone.
Because bad things happen in Philadelphia, bad things.
I feel that it is better to be part of the process to continue to make things better for our community and to sit back and let things happen with a say in the process.
Of course, things happen when you’re writing that you don’t expect, because your characters will say things you didn’t think of, or something, which is sort of the fun of writing.
The universe puts things in your life and when you are living the right way things happen organically.
A source close to the footballer said: “Things happen in life but he’s a good man and takes care of things.
I can tend to get tunnel vision and take things too seriously but dating shouldn’t be that way it should be light and you don’t have to know what you want and just let things happen.
Strange things happen, like the Guptill direct hit. decision to play ultra-defensively and leave things to the last over didn't work.
As last week’s column pointed out, everyone is familiar with the adage about ifs and buts, candy and nuts and merry Christmases, and last year’s Highlander team was also very close to having good things happen — but those good things never materialized.