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Example sentences for "sometimes happens"

  • It sometimes happens, that after the operation the cement proves extremely hard, so that it is very troublesome to separate it entirely from the Gold.

  • If the fire be made very strong, when the Oil ceases to rise, it sometimes happens that a little Sulphur sublimes into the neck of the retort.

  • It sometimes happens, that the Oil is burnt in the operation, and that the calx of Lead is partly resuscitated: and this gives the plaster a black colour, which however it ought not to have.

  • It sometimes happens, that there is occasion to check the fermentation excited in the liquor, before it ceases of itself.

  • Again, it sometimes happens that a considerable part of the bile discharged into the intestines is reabsorbed unchanged, and enters the portal vein and the general circulation, thus causing jaundice.

  • It sometimes happens, in individuals with impaired sensitiveness of the epiglottis or vestibule of the larynx, that the exploratory bougie is introduced into the air-passage instead of the gullet.

  • It sometimes happens that, opening into a duct of large size, the daughter and granddaughter vesicles are slowly discharged through it into the intestine, and thus a cure is effected.

  • When, however, as sometimes happens, gastric symptoms are absent or no more than can be explained by anaemia and marasmus, then in the absence of tumor a positive diagnosis is impossible.

  • It sometimes happens, if the "liners" of the bearings are eccentrically worn, that a few drops of dirty oil or a particle of grease are squirted out to some distance.

  • Even if the standard of dilution should be correct it sometimes happens that, in the preliminary rolling of a long strip of rubber, coolies begin in the middle, rolling with a forward pressure and tension towards the ends of the strip.

  • Now it sometimes happens by chance that a person is killed as a result of something done for a good purpose.

  • Further, it sometimes happens that a man raises the price of his goods under guise of loan, or buys another's goods at a low figure; or raises his price through delay in being paid, and lowers his price that he may be paid the sooner.

  • When the spots are of Chinese ink, old or recent, and have sunk into the texture, as sometimes happens, they resist all known agents.

  • It sometimes happens, especially when the paper has been well made and well sized, that the spot will yield to this gentle rubbing, slide off and disappear.

  • It sometimes happens that a married couple agree, even before marriage, to live together without sexual relations, but, for various reasons, it is seldom found possible or convenient to maintain this resolution for a long period.

  • It sometimes happens that a prolonged period of sexual storm and stress occurs soon after puberty, and then dies away although there has been little or no sexual gratification, to be succeeded by a period of comparative calm.

  • It sometimes happens that a projection on the work prevents the surface that should go against the surface of the chuck plate from meeting the latter.

  • It sometimes happens, that you observe a pause in the conversation.

  • It sometimes happens, that he himself sends to the same meeting a written acknowledgement of his error.

  • In the vertigo of intoxication, when the patient lies down in bed, it sometimes happens even in the dark, that the bed seems to librate under him, and he is afraid of falling out of it.

  • In difficult parturition it sometimes happens, that general convulsions are excited to relieve the pain of labour, instead of the exertions of those muscles of the abdomen and diaphragm, which ought to forward the exclusion of the child.

  • Now, it sometimes happens, that the momentary life of individuals offers resistance to the eternal life of the human race.

  • It sometimes happens that a stag is lost head and horns; that is to say, he escapes although he has the pack on his very heels, and then the oldest huntsmen know not what to say.

  • It sometimes happens that a muddy stream and a clear spring are so located, that the water of the stream can be utilized to furnish the energy for conveying the spring water to a point where it is desired for use.

  • It sometimes happens that in case of a blown fuse there is no extra part at hand and a wire of much greater carrying capacity is used in its place.

  • It sometimes happens that an elephant will come to the same tree to seek food that apes frequent, and although they have no enmity towards each other, they like the same kind of food.

  • So skilfully is it situated that it sometimes happens a hunter will dig into a fox's burrow and never discover the nest of young, and later the clever mother will return to carry away her babes, which are usually five to six in number.

  • It sometimes happens that an angered husband takes the law in his hands, like uncivilised men, and beats his wife.

  • The first is, that though we commonly be able to distinguish pretty exactly betwixt numerical and specific identity, yet it sometimes happens, that we confound them, and in our thinking and reasoning employ the one for the other.

  • It sometimes happens, that the marks of one or two claws are to be seen, but they are generally en passant, and by no means the result of primary intention.

  • But it sometimes happens, that the waters rise to so great a height as to endanger even these elevated villages; some of which are then completely inundated.

  • But when the reaches lie tolerably fair, that opportunity offers, as sometimes happens for a whole day together, and that the wind is brisk in favor, a budjrow will run off from four to six miles within the hour.

  • If his home, as sometimes happens, is broken up by the death of his wife, his existence becomes a very lonely and precarious one.

  • But it sometimes happens that he will not face that prospect.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after exposure; difficult position; heat and; joined the; motor activity; ninth year; productive labour; scouting party; sell again; shall expect; sometimes applied; sometimes done; sometimes even; sometimes find; sometimes followed; sometimes found; sometimes from; sometimes made; sometimes necessary; sometimes seen; sometimes termed; sometimes think; sometimes very; sometimes written; world government; written promise