'appen
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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Far more deserving of recrimination is the illiterate dialogue inflicted on characters like Wiggins, the footman, forced to declare: “Cor blimey, I knew this was goin’ to ’appen.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2017
"I shouldn't be surprised if things was to 'appen in this funny little 'ole," he remarked, as he passed on his way up the road.
From Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins
"I wouldn't 'ave 'ad that 'appen," he said, bidding steadily against accomplished things, "for twenty pounds."
From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
I s'pose," he said thoughtfully, "I'd sort o' miss my little bit of 'eaven if anythink wos to 'appen to 'er.
From Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins
It's 'appen nowt but a bit of a marlackin', an' ye shall come an' live wi' us while 'e turns up.
From Windyridge by W. Riley
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