stanie inglês:

If you know that something unpleasant will happen, that you will go to the dentist for example, or to France, then that is not good.

what's happening?

He was so healthy up to the minute of his sudden death. You really never know what might happen next.

Suppose there was a worldwide oil shortage in ten years' time. What would happen to the industrialised countries?

If a tree falls in a forest and nobody hears it, did it happen? If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?

There are many uses of the 'present tense' of Japanese grammar which indicate things yet to happen.

How does it happen that you were not eaten up with all those hundreds and trillions of cats?

I'm sorry, but do you happen to have the key to that machine over there? My croissant is stuck.

I just got a great job because of an introduction from a friend. Sometimes things happen when you least expect it.

Wealth comes to those who make things happen, not to those who let things happen.

That shan't happen again, Fortunatus said to himself, and they started to ride at each other again. This time, Fortunatus's spear met his foe so powerfully that he flew from his horse like a ball and lay dead on the earth.

(be) Tom happened ... at Alan's when I called in so I invited him to our party as well.

To my chief strategist, David Axelrod, who's been a partner with me every step of the way. To the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of politics! You made this happen, and I am forever grateful for what you've sacrificed to get it done.

They're able students.

It's important to take good care of your teeth so you'll be able to eat properly when you get older.

I don't need to sound like a native speaker, I just want to be able to speak fluently.

You may be able to pass unnoticed in a city, but in a village that's not possible.

Although he had fewer supporters among the governing class, he was able to get the popular vote.

He regained consciousness and was able to talk.

The defense lawyer was confident that he would be able to answer the prosecutor's arguments in his rebuttal.

You may not learn to speak as well as a native speaker, but you should be able to speak well enough that native speakers will understand what you have to say.

Do you think you have to be able to pass for a native speaker to be an effective spy?

A good ballboy or ballgirl must be able to concentrate hard and run fast.

He is able man, but on the other hand he asks too much of us.

From the moment he arrived there, he kept on bothering his doctor to tell him when he would be able to go home.

Tom was able to make himself understood in French when he visited Paris.

I never for a moment imagined I'd be able to afford to live in such a fancy house.

I want to try my best for as long as I am physically able to.