Example sentences of "[coord] [subord] it happen [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he said to me , he 'd marked my , my sum and , and as it happened they was right , all of them . |
| 2 | I remembered what you 'd said about settling down , and as it happened I met a very nice young man from Berlin , a train driver . |
| 3 | I was seven and I was I went to a neighbour 's house and as it happened I was looking through the blooming window when the funeral went past so I was no better off you know . |
| 4 | ‘ We have contingency plans for a major incident like this but when it happens it is very difficult to cope . |
| 5 | The marriage , which was a political one , took some time to complete , since bride and groom passed a whole month in Saint-Jean before the ceremony ; but when it happened it was very splendid , with much bestowing of jewels , especially by the wealthy minister , Cardinal Mazarin , whose niece Louis had originally been most anxious to marry but who was opportunely exiled by her uncle in the interests of the nation . |
| 6 | ‘ It suggests nothing of the sort but as it happens you are partly right . |
| 7 | They were lies , but as it happens I had met him before . |
| 8 | They had to pass the restaurant in order to reach the right road ; but as it happened nobody even looked at them . |
| 9 | One did not have to attend school meals with the boys over the week-end if one was off duty ; and the only master who might have noticed I had been away was Méli himself , but as it happened he 'd been in Athens . |
| 10 | One of the factors that led me to sign up with the DIA was the idea that I might be able to do something for my friend Jerry Levin , who had been taken hostage in Beirut by Hezbollah , but as it happened he was released before I got out there . |