Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] happened " in BNC.
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| 31 | Somebody had been reading a paper there , which apparently happened quite often , Penelope learned , and they usually finished at about this time . |
| 32 | Throughout 1990 rumours spread that a less-busy Shabba had signed for a major , which finally happened when CBS picked him up in America at the end of last year , and worldwide earlier this year . |
| 33 | ’ Its just happened so fast , ’ says the former Shanna Jackson . |
| 34 | Yes , and she phoned me and she said I feel as though I dropped out of the bottom of the world she said , you know , I just do n't see anybody , I said well of course you were working on Mondays , you see she used to have Mondays to herself and I would often go round on a Monday afternoon and , we , we could talk , but that 's gone and I said I ca n't run in at half past five when you get home from school and chat to you because Ned will be coming home at six and I do n't want to be there all that often when he 's there erm its you know , its just happened and I also thought to myself and I 'm probably going to move a lot further away then Fen Lane . |
| 35 | Caught by the uplift of hot air from the fluorescent tubes , all the smoke was drawn into the hood and onto the water 's surface , which just happened to have a protein skimmer waiting to mix it into solution . |
| 36 | Spooner 's idea came from an invitation by his actor-neighbour , Jim Dale , to visit the set of the latest Carry On … film at Pinewood — which just happened to be Carry On Cleo . |
| 37 | I was n't inclined to linger anyway ; the day I arrived I caught a bus in the square which just happened to have Collioure on the front . |
| 38 | Singly and in groups , in a variety of motorised transport , ranging from thirty-ton sixteen wheelers to private cars , they were converging on their Operations HQ — which just happened to bear a remarkable resemblance to the County Sheriff 's office in Rockford ! |
| 39 | She broke into films in 1933 , when MGM advertised for ‘ tall girls in bathing suits ’ , and made her movie debut in the chorus in Dancing Lady , which also happened to be Fred Astaire 's first film . |
| 40 | Crofting made its impact when we moved house from one of the quiet streets , in the middle of the town , to the road which was planned by a wealthy proprietor as an elegant tree-lined approach to Lews Castle , but which also happened to be the shortest route between a dozen crofting villages , lying to the east of the town , and their 19,000 acres of general common pasture which lay to the west . |
| 41 | ‘ It was the day before my estimated delivery date , which also happened to be one of the children 's birthdays and half-term holidays , so I was very busy . |
| 42 | At Exeter , another clothing centre , cheese was seized and sold at a lowered price , while the Cornish miners forced butchers to lower the price of meat , which also happened in Wolverhampton . |
| 43 | One TODAY reader , who refused to be named , said : ‘ There was a certain part which really happened to me and I thought the programme was real . |
| 44 | The usurpation of 1483 happened so quickly that many of the duchy servants were presented with a fait accompli , whereupon as usual they backed the crown ( which now happened to be worn by their erstwhile chief steward ) . |
| 45 | The usurpation of 1483 happened so quickly that many of the duchy servants were presented with a fait accompli , whereupon as usual they backed the crown ( which now happened to be worn by their erstwhile chief steward ) . |
| 46 | The litter was registered with a German breed club , which often happened , even after recognition by the American Kennel Club ( AKC ) . |
| 47 | Driving was easy from the spacious cab , except when the electric brake failed , which sometimes happened ! |
| 48 | But Mark Wahlberg , brother of New Kids On The Block star Donny , denies the attack , which allegedly happened in Boston on August 30 . |
| 49 | He failed to appear at court to answer a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm which allegedly happened in Durham Prison last July . |
| 50 | The content was precisely the same sort of thing as the play 's having begun on Saturn with Helen of Troy in the audience , which never happened . |
| 51 | In Ardeevan we just lay and rotted and nothing ever happened between Doctor Staples 's weekly rounds – except that someone died . |
| 52 | Robin and Jenny were the ones who had adventures , fell walking or sailing on the lake , always coming home with hair-raising stories ; but nothing ever happened to Ruth . |
| 53 | Nothing ever happened to him . |
| 54 | Nothing ever happened in Broadstairs . |
| 55 | ‘ But nothing ever happened , ’ said Stevie . |
| 56 | ‘ Nothing ever happened in terms of stab wounds . ’ |
| 57 | Nothing more happened ; and no hypothesis made sense . |
| 58 | He watched the door for a bit , but nothing more happened . |
| 59 | I sat up for the next few nights , my head poking out of the back skylight of the loft , my ears straining for the tinkle of glass breaking or muffled curses , or the more usual signal of the birds being disturbed and taking flight , but nothing more happened . |
| 60 | Both men had leapt to their feet and had been restrained from using violence by the mates of the shop steward , who just happened to be on hand . |