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  • It is as natural that they should seek to ensure that such a disaster as befell their loved ones should not recur.

  • Unfortunately, he is still suffering from the effects of the accident which befell him last year, and is not yet fit to travel.

  • Obviously the manufacturers were eager to realise their stock, lest worse things befell them.

  • It was something of a catastrophe that befell the farmers and landowners in that part of the country.

  • I believe that the urbanization of our population and our country was the greatest misfortune that befell us since the last war.

  • I, too, deplore the untimely fate which befell the imaginative attempt to get that surrender policy under way.

  • That was the tragic end that befell a man who, according to his friends, was intelligent and articulate, albeit that he had strong idiosyncratic views.

  • We cannot say that tonight because of the tragedy which befell us recently.

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