Example sentences of "[noun] that happened [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er one of the paradoxical things that happened was that immediately men are faced with , for example , someone standing beside them with a stopwatch , |
| 2 | Yeah , the reason that happened was that there was no-one servicing holidays erm and they came to us for an allocation and and we gave it to them . |
| 3 | Oh and the fourth thing that happened is the timbers , core samples were taken out of the timbers and they were sent for erm dendrochronology . |
| 4 | The next thing that happened was six years after the Select Committee . |
| 5 | The Edwardian and Progressive eras were rife with ideas of how film could develop but of all the possibilities the only thing that happened was that the showmen hung on to what they had discovered . |
| 6 | The only thing that happened was that Dad came into the kitchen where Oliver was crying because someone had broken the jar in which he kept his stick insects and said , ‘ What 's the matter , old chap ? |
| 7 | The last time that happened was with an Irish judge in the 1830s . |