Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh adv] [pers pn] happened " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also a community , which encompassed all Jews wherever they happened to reside . |
| 2 | ‘ I can hardly believe I 'm actually seeing the places where it happened . ’ |
| 3 | He was at the garden party on Guy Fawkes Night in 1938 when the honourable member for Stockton , Harold Macmillan , burnt Chamberlain in effigy , and he earned the thanks of Bob Boothby later the same evening when he happened upon him making love to Macmillan 's wife against a turkey-oak tree — and went deaf and blind . |
| 4 | It was one evening when I happened to be valeting him , Mr Charles told me he had come across my father some years earlier while a guest at Loughborough House — the home of Mr John Silvers , the industrialist , where my father served for fifteen years at the height of his career . |
| 5 | Betty McCaw , who lives out Templepatrick way , tells me she was in the electricity showrooms the other day when she happened to catch the eye of another woman in the queue . |
| 6 | It was a massive vehicle with a 3.3 litre diesel engine , and it was marvellous because we could park for the night where we happened to be . |
| 7 | Police , hunting a gang who made an unprovoked knife attack on a man , have been making a fingertip search of the area where it happened . |
| 8 | In South Island where I happened to be , validation is available only from the Canterbury Aero Club at Christchurch Airport . |
| 9 | So this business of of understanding how it happened from the , in inverted commas , victim 's point of view um this business of understanding the subsequent effects , this business of understanding the extent , ah are all enormously problematic and um it 's one of these things I would n't particularly like to have to design a survey of because it 's absolutely fraught with difficulty but nevertheless some some attempts have been made um as I have indicated . |
| 10 | Now Bob is suing the makers of the portable loo where it happened . |
| 11 | ‘ Any idea how it happened ? ’ she asked . |
| 12 | As I look at the water I hear a distinctive slurp as a chub sucks some morsel through the surface ; then I see the rings rippling away from the spot where it happened . |
| 13 | You appear to be almost running away from the — the dastardly spot where it happened . ’ |
| 14 | On other days , he tended to have lunch either at the Reform or at the Oxford and Cambridge Club ; to judge by his correspondence , there were few occasions when he happened to be " free " and he was forced to arrange regular times in order to see close friends like Herbert Read . |