Example sentences of "it had happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had to happen before there could be true reconciliation of nations and before countries could begin to live and forget . |
| 2 | It had to happen one day , but not yet . |
| 3 | IT HAD to happen . |
| 4 | It 's a pity it had to happen that way . |
| 5 | It had to happen to someone . |
| 6 | It had to happen some time . |
| 7 | ‘ It had to happen sometime , ’ Barbara said . |
| 8 | First , and parenthetically , it serves to remind us that the difference between the interests underlying individualism and holism is not merely the difference between showing why something happened to happen and why it had to happen , and thus between descriptive and counterfactual forms of explanation . |
| 9 | It had to happen sometime and now was as good a time as any . |
| 10 | IT HAD to happen . |
| 11 | And they had a system where erm they got this information and they It was that they I think there there was something about the time element , it had to happen at a certain time |
| 12 | " It had to happen . |
| 13 | It had to happen . ’ |
| 14 | IT HAD to happen . |
| 15 | ‘ What rotten luck it had to happen now ! |
| 16 | It 's unfortunate it had to happen . |
| 17 | Not so much the compromises , the deceits , the hypocrisies affecting his work , his women , his children , even his friends , but the sense of despair and failure hovering over him , as though he was trapped and did n't know how it had happened or what he should or could do . |
| 18 | They seemed to realize that always too late — when it had happened . |
| 19 | I recollect that it had happened before to the team 's predecessors , practically on the same spot . |
| 20 | If it had happened two years earlier , I could n't have coped . |
| 21 | If it had happened to anyone else , to any of her friends , half their garments would now be lying under glass or dust around the floor . |
| 22 | She had fallen in love with it so slowly and gently and sweetly that she had never noticed it had happened . |
| 23 | It had happened again while he was screwing his resolution to go and see a certain man in London and make to him an excessively embarrassing confession which justice demanded . |
| 24 | It was the kind of tragedy that so often called for sympathy — a momentary sympathy and thrill of horror , mixed with shamefaced satisfaction that it had happened to someone else -before one passed on to less disturbing news . |
| 25 | Maybe you ca n't engineer that sort of thing in advance , but I just wished it had happened more often . |
| 26 | Brought up in the ethic of duty , this was hard for Jane to get used to , but when she broke out into the sunshine , it was all the more joyous , and she thanked God , or Nature , or Fate , or whatever power there is , that it had happened for her in her lifetime . |
| 27 | It had happened before , to make way for Muldoon . |
| 28 | Perhaps not last Sunday , and perhaps not on the way to Liam Shakespeare 's front door , but it had happened . |
| 29 | Loopy Lil stared round at the destruction with a look of hopelessness as though she did not understand how it had happened . |
| 30 | It had happened . |