Example sentences of "happened [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I do n't know , Victorine said : it was all pulled down from one day to the next , and you know it happened during the war , everything was topsy-turvy then . |
| 32 | What happened during the 1980s was that we measured more things , more systematically , and published the measurements to an extent not seen before . |
| 33 | Can you remember any particular incidents that happened during the war ? |
| 34 | We will never know what happened during that operation because , like most English people , we suffer from excessive politeness with figures of authority and we do n't question or harass them when their explanations seem superficial . |
| 35 | the accident happened during a period of continental use that you had told us about . |
| 36 | the accident happened during a period of continental use that you had told us about . |
| 37 | the accident happened during a period of continental use that you had told us about . |
| 38 | the accident happened during a period of continental use that you had told us about . |
| 39 | It happened during a holiday tour Chris and her husband John took in China after he completed his part of the OSART at Daya Bay nuclear power station ( see below left ) . |
| 40 | Of course we welcome the Woolf report and its careful examination of what happened during the Strangeways riot . |
| 41 | This is taking up time , but if hon. Members are alleging that I took a point of order from the hon. Member for Surbiton ( Mr. Tracey ) , I did so because the Chair has to hear the point of order if it is alleged that something unparliamentary happened during the course of Question Time . |
| 42 | It happened during a visit of two captains from the Nord Pas de Calais , the vessel which carries freight between Dunkirk and Dover . |
| 43 | But its advocates fail to mention that , in the first place , most disabilities occur after birth from accidents or illness ; secondly , much illness and disability in newborn babies is not inherited , but is the result of something that happened during pregnancy ; and thirdly , that medicine is now moving towards a gene-oriented approach to reproduction and health an approach which increases the occasions for screening and raises the questions , who shall decide who s ’ fit to breed ’ , with which genes , and who 's ’ fit ’ to be born ? |
| 44 | Of the patients we studied , ages 18–35 , 6 fulfilled these conditions : a ) the probes both worked ; b ) spontaneous seizures with hippocampal onset and secondary generalisation happened during microdialysis ; c ) there was an epileptogenic hippocampus shown by intracranial EEG and subsequent confirmation of mesial temporal sclerosis in tissue removed at operation . |
| 45 | Police were today trying to find out what happened during an seven hour ordeal which began on this country road in Oxfordshire . |
| 46 | The court had heard that the Davies family had kept animals for years without any problems , but the dogs neglect happened during a traumatic period when one of Mr Davies ' daughters died from an illness . |
| 47 | Seven people were injured in the crashes which happened during the rush hour on the northbound carriageway at the Fortwilliam junction . |
| 48 | It happened during a performance by a newly setup amateur dramatic group , all of whose members were mentally handicapped . |
| 49 | Chris Wright , defending , said the two offences , freely admitted to police by Watson , happened during a bad patch when Watson was unhappy with army life . |
| 50 | BNFL said the leak happened during the week ending 13 February . |
| 51 | Well , but what happened during the Second World War when all these children were undergoing much more traumatic experiences then ? |
| 52 | Then nothing happened worth reporting . |
| 53 | There was a strong and pure Greek revival which happened as a result of contemporary scholars studying Greek antiquities , and which produced severe and masculine architecture . |
| 54 | The failure happened as the US |
| 55 | As is the way with people who undertake these , epics , the accident happened as a result of slipping over while going for a beer with Colin Broadway . |
| 56 | To dismiss what happened as the Labour Party merely showing its true colours , does not explain why Labour actually supported legislation which was immediately condemned by many who were considerably to the right of Labour 's quite-right-enough Deputy Leader , Roy Hattersley . |
| 57 | The collision happened as the Greenpeace boat tried to follow the Akatsuki Maru on its voyage back to Japan with 1.7 tons of plutonium loaded in Cherbourg , France , on Saturday . |
| 58 | The attack happened as the widows , from Sunderland , were on a trip to South Shields . |
| 59 | The big question is n't so much how it happened as why ? |
| 60 | ‘ Why not try to look upon whatever happened as a little misdemeanour , ’ Elinor persisted . |