Example sentences of "but [pron] happened [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nothing happened to the man ; disappointingly , when his lorry was full he simply climbed into the cab and drove away . |
| 2 | The duty officer promised to get in touch but nothing happened for two days . |
| 3 | He finally agreed to meet us for lunch at the Mayflower Hotel , but nothing happened between them . |
| 4 | Normally I ask for an appointment , but I happened to be passing and saw the lights — and the chopper . |
| 5 | But one happened to be free for a couple of hours along with the picture editor who cut Nicola 's last report . |
| 6 | Ian was not over-bright , but he happened to be popular with the other boys as he was a good footballer and did quite well at sports generally . |
| 7 | for not only was the Earl Patrick suspicious of anyone coming from the regency , but he happened at this juncture to be consoling himself with a local lady , in the absence of marital comforts . |
| 8 | It was a subjective , not an objective view ; but it happened to be the attitude of a man living in the kingdom which harboured Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 9 | But it happened to be true . ’ |
| 10 | No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week . |
| 11 | I could tell you my story up until then , but it happened to someone else , an imaginary character . ’ |
| 12 | erm I ca n't roll them off and I do n't know if it applies in all of them , but it happened to me in Italy that erm I was fined on the spot . |
| 13 | Well last time I was in er Dublin I er went from the pub straight to the airport and someone stuck a bottle of whiskey in my pocket just as I was going through customs , I did n't believe it could happen but it happened in Ireland . |
| 14 | But whatever happened on the diplomatic front , it seemed , arms expenditure rose . |
| 15 | For them , energy comes in joules , and force in newtons , but whatever happened to ergs and dynes ? |
| 16 | Admittedly it makes a change from Stratocasters , but whatever happened to originality ? |
| 17 | ‘ It 's all rather complicated and I do n't really know , but whatever happened in the past I have an obligation to look after Beryl . |
| 18 | ‘ But what happened to you ? ’ |
| 19 | But what happened to Contracan ? |
| 20 | But what happened to the others , I have no idea . ’ |
| 21 | I do n't know whether it affects anyone else but what happened to me was that for the first time in my adult life I began to feel part of a community . |
| 22 | But what happened to Brixton and it still , to some extent , exists there is a feeling that there are gay people in all these houses and you 're probably going to meet them when you go into Woolworths . |
| 23 | Interior shots of rare types are scarce , this Heinkel was apparently captured intact by the RAF but what happened to it is not recorded . |
| 24 | But what happened to the crushed tomatoes which had been such a success , Were they abandoned in favour of whole canned tomatoes ? |
| 25 | ‘ But what happened to the humans inside the Star Zoo ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ But what happened to Fiona ? ’ |
| 27 | " But what happened to all that famous French liberte , egalite and fraternite that you fought your revolution for ? " asked Joseph in astonishment . |
| 28 | But what happened to her body no longer interested her after he had rejected it . |
| 29 | But what happened to me was that my head was bitten off almost literally . |
| 30 | But what happened to it when Serafin finished it ? |