'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
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From Time Magazine Archive
"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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Now, with a ma like you," he paused eloquently, "it was bound to 'appen.
From Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles by Jenkins, Hebert
I wouldn’t ’ave ’ad it ’appen for ’alf a sovereign.
From The Cabinet Minister A farce in four acts by Pinero, Arthur Wing, Sir
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