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

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1 It also transpired that parts of England ( east and south-east ) were put on full invasion alert at the time , but it seems that ‘ Cromwell ’ had been ignored in some places where the junior officers who happened to be on duty had not been let into the secret of what it meant .
2 This was the social service which happened by accident .
3 He pleaded guilty to the drink-drive offence which happened on December 22nd .
4 Buddeke wrote bits of her speech into a notebook as he examined those around him and made note of the enthusiastic individuals who happened to be standing nearby , describing dress , attitude , or making little sketches .
5 This was a figure of actual spending that a department was not to overshoot in the coming year whatever happened to prices or the wages and salaries of its employees in the interim .
6 Well I wo n't say Beven because it 's a bloody shame what happened to him !
7 ‘ Well , it 's a good thing it happened at home and not at the racecourse .
8 This motion was triggered by a particular case which happened within the Birmingham region on the first of January nineteen ninety three which should have been a start of the European Market the people 's Europe .
9 So we entered a genteel teashoppe/cafe which happened to be handy and ordered coffee , as so often before .
10 George Taylor was collected and he and Mrs Oliver returned to the tobacconists ' to be joined shortly by PC Chandler , an off-duty policeman who happened to be in Higatt 's too .
11 Until recently , Peter had thought of Kate as someone to be avoided : a member of an alien species who happened to be Richard 's sister .
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