Example sentences of "[conj] had happen [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future . |
| 2 | Leila settled to tell him the story of Nathan 's condition and all that had happened at the farm , with certain omissions . |
| 3 | In Trevor Wilson 's words , it was the ‘ Indian summer of the old Liberal Party ’ ; and , as sometimes happens with Indian summers , it was at least as spectacular as anything that had happened during the real one … |
| 4 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |
| 5 | We were disliked because of things that had happened in the past and we did n't need any motivation when we kept hearing that sort of talk . |
| 6 | In the silence of his shelter he was finally letting the true sorrow he felt for all that had happened in the last months come into him , and he was beginning to grieve . |
| 7 | At Wickham 's prompting he painstakingly recalled everything that had happened in the pub that evening up to the time he missed the knife , and recited a list of names of customers who had been there . |
| 8 | Before she reached it , she wanted everything that had happened in the past finally to be put behind her . |
| 9 | As had happened with the return of the Ambassadors , Franco had seemingly got what he wanted without altering his position . |
| 10 | The people had never heard preaching like this before , and so they embraced the teaching before they had time to become used to it and ‘ Gospel-hardened ’ as had happened to the people of Bridgnorth . |
| 11 | In my view our fellow Members , who lived with us cheek by jowl , were fully aware of my strengths and weaknesses and were unlikely to be impressed by pictures of me on their TV screens dressed in a striped apron and pretending to wash up in the kitchen , as had happened during the Tory leadership election . |
| 12 | Dr Lawrence , who was confirmed by one of the previous archbishops in Canterbury Cathedral , said that his society would never allow one of their leaders to undermine these essential doctrines as had happened in the Church of England . |
| 13 | For a moment , as he bent over her , she looked up at him , her parted lips soft and full , and , as had happened in the night , she felt a welter of emotion rising , swamping her heart . |
| 14 | Although some deputies represented minor parties and associations , as had happened in the past , all candidates were approved by the ruling communist Korean Workers ' Party led by Kim Il Sung . |
| 15 | During this period the European Communities exerted pressure by warning that any military intervention would entail the cancellation of EC credits and assistance to Yugoslavia , as had happened in the early 1980s when Turkey had declared martial law [ see pp. 30541-55 ] . |