Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [pron] happened " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was on a Tuesday that it happened . |
| 2 | And on the instant that it happened , Uranus — the electrical disruptor — crossed the same point in the sky . |
| 3 | Fatherless Shirley knew perfectly well that most British men carved , and that it was a bit of bad luck that she happened to have married into a family where the women were expected to wield the knife . |
| 4 | I return to Mr Ritchie 's point that what happened here amounted to a collateral contract , that is an independent contract collateral to the main contract . |
| 5 | He continued up the hill , and she went on down ; but a few paces further on she stopped and looked back , and it was at that precise moment that it happened , because he had turned back as well and for a few moments they looked longingly at each other , each tongue-tied , but each sure , now , of the other 's feelings . |
| 6 | If the origin of life is such an improbable event that it happened on only one planet in the universe , then our planet has to be that planet . |
| 7 | Anyway , I told Adele that what happened was , about what you said to me when I go about sort it out . |
| 8 | Do you think that there 's a chance that what happened in Carshalton could possibly happen at the John Radcliffe ? |
| 9 | They had been having dinner separately in the harem quarters , as they always did , the night that it happened . |
| 10 | During the review , the judge said : ‘ These are frightfully shy children , totally unlikely to be able to persuade a jury that anything happened , even if it did , and secondly , there is no corroboration and thirdly , no damage that I can see , fortunately , was done to the children . ’ |
| 11 | One , to eliminate any feeling of antipathy er to the introduction of any new incentive scheme , but more so er to give confidence to our members that whatever happened , erm there would be a benefit . |
| 12 | It is , of course , history that what happened was not a crash programme of chauffeur training , but the lateral thought of do-it-yourself driving — the owner driver with the cheaper and more simple car such as the Model T. |
| 13 | President Eisenhower took the view that what happened in the states was really a matter for each state to decide . |
| 14 | The the last time that it happened was er on it must be maybe twenty year ago or so . |
| 15 | The fact that they happened to be sites where nuclear waste was already produced , where there might be a flicker of acceptance from the local population , and appeared to have been chosen more from expediency than science , did n't seem to embarrass the already embattled industry . |
| 16 | In a family in which ‘ asking ’ is always done by a threatening fist , and physical violence is the usual means of expressing ill-temper or frustration , the difference between welfare and ill-fare is the strength of the blow rather than the fact that it happened . |
| 17 | To Constanza it was an end , an end then and there — the sole fact that it happened , that people consented to it happening , men sent out , actually going out to hurt and kill , systematically destroy one another 's homes and lives and loved ones , the folly of it , the beastliness , the pain ; the strange mad illusion that any of this , under any aspect , any theology , any ideal , could be right — the staggering , inconceivable , immediate , ultimate , concrete wrongness of it all . |