Example sentences of "[subord] it had [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw himself , as in a mirror , lifting the black cloth from her white flesh , felt , as if it had already happened , the softness of her body closing around him . |
| 2 | Sue 's skin , thought Marion , Sue 's skin , so why do I feel as if I 'm the one , as if it all happened in my room , as if it had all happened to me ? |
| 3 | It was better if it had never happened . |
| 4 | Now , as if it had never happened before , Nicholas thanked the King , but not as the King wanted . |
| 5 | It was strange , the conversation Dad and I had , because when I saw him at home later and over the next few days he behaved as if it had never happened , as if he had n't told me he 'd fallen in love with someone else . |
| 6 | He did n't know the doctor and was very disorientated and frightened for the rest of that day and the next ; but on the following one it was as if it had never happened . |
| 7 | As they spoke , neither of them reminded each other of their passion a few hours earlier ; it was as if it had never happened . |
| 8 | All rich , strange and remote , as if it had never happened or had happened to another person . |
| 9 | as if it had never happened , he continued in the same tone : ‘ You are a foolish child , to come here with your toys . ’ |
| 10 | Obviously he was the kind of man who could expunge an unsatisfactory incident from his memory as if it had never happened , and get on with living in the present . |
| 11 | She could n't resist embroidering the description , seeing it all in her mind as if it had really happened . |
| 12 | It allows me to savour the end of the conflict , to enjoy it in a way I could not have done if it had really happened , that is if a few words had been exchanged , spoken with difficulty through the barbed-wire taboos that separate people in so-called intimate relationships . |
| 13 | There was no way he could be remembering that experience of running — of the joy and the pain and the total , ultimate effort — unless it had actually happened to him . |
| 14 | He had felt sour ever since her arrival — he could admit it to himself now — but simply because it had all happened so unexpectedly and confusedly . |
| 15 | However , it emerged last night that a reporter from London Weekend Television unwittingly tipped off residents about the raid when he phoned contacts on the estate to ask if there had been a raid — before it had actually happened . |
| 16 | Almost as though it had all happened in another life . |