Example sentences of "it happened that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it happened that a few days earlier Jones had called up Lee R. Phillips , an attorney associated with Brigham Young University , in order to file a patent arising from his muon-fusion work . |
| 2 | Shouting was necessary , for it happened that a high-speed train was rushing by at just that moment on a main line to the east coast . |
| 3 | In one group it happened that every week the same woman would say , ‘ I ca n't read that , it makes me too nervous . |
| 4 | However , it happened that the first audio typist in Britain was a woman , Mary Ferguson , who was governess to the children of Colonel Gouraud , Edison 's representative in Britain . |
| 5 | It happened that the king of the vookodlaks had been hiding behind a tree , listening while the sun-god talked to the boys . |
| 6 | If it happened that the particular industry or business was working less efficiently than its foreign competitors , it was simply further relatively weakened . |
| 7 | It happened that the dog was silenced just as her last remark emerged , and over his body , flattened now to the sheet where he lay panting , the old woman sitting up in the bed flashed her a look . |