Example sentences of "[adj] was [pron] happened [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Maybe this was what happened to most people .
2 This was what happened to women .
3 And this was what happened in the Falklands .
4 And this was what happened in the 1960s and 1970s — the subject of the next chapter .
5 Still , I suppose this was what happened in the Middle Ages .
6 What it did make possible was stalemate ; and that was what happened in the 1540s .
7 That was what happened in 1984 when Renault 's Formula 1 programme fell into disarray the season after it had just been pipped at the final post by the Brabham-BMW team .
8 Erm it 's , it 's , negative numbers are n't a natural thing , fractions are actually easier and that was what happened in the history of mathematics , fractions were developed a long long time before negative numbers , the old Greeks used to play about with fractions quite a lot .
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