Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] happened [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The auto industry just happened to be a convenient sector in which to show his determination to change ( Doner , 1987 ; Oman , 1989 : pp. 164–166 ) . |
| 2 | The orderly American " dating " we saw in films or heard about in pop songs never happened in my adolescence . |
| 3 | I wanted to ‘ do ’ someone I knew a little , but when I approached my number one seed , he served me up Roy as a better choice ( Roy just happened to be on holiday so not able to comment ) . |
| 4 | Yet a good deal of this diversification probably happened in the last 70 million years , during the Tertiary . |
| 5 | It was only noticed yesterday , although the explosion apparently happened on Saturday afternoon . |
| 6 | Why was it , she wondered , that weird things always happened to her ? |
| 7 | I wonder why things always happened on a Monday , but it seemed to be the case . |
| 8 | ‘ Things always happened around Julie and Elizabeth , ’ he says . |
| 9 | But doctors did notice that the epidemics usually happened in the hot months of the year ; and that was when the miasmic smells from primitive or non-existent sewerage were at their worst . |
| 10 | By chance there happened to be a 12 year-old MkII Boogie combo in the Guitarist studio with just such a loop . |
| 11 | The puppet is an exhibit at a cartoon gallery in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the real Mr Heseltine just happened to be passing through . |
| 12 | Pilkington disliked the impression conveyed that these friendly personalities just happened to be recommending products as though they were disinterested parties . |
| 13 | The grass was lucky if it grew , was shone upon and rained upon , and was not burned , and was not pulled up by the roots , or poisoned , or buried when the ground was turned over , and some bits just happened to be on a line that humans wanted to walk on , and so got trampled , broken , pressed flat , with no malice ; just effect . |
| 14 | Applecross just happened to be central when Xenly was divided and so became the only building to be shared by each community . |
| 15 | As a middle-aged bishop he was reluctant to believe that miracles still happened in his world as they had in the time of the Lord and his apostles . |
| 16 | We first met him at an elegant hotel in the ‘ uptown ’ district of Manhattan , New York , overlooking Central park , a watering place well known to artists ( Joe Cocker also happened to be in residence at the time ) . |
| 17 | The incident reportedly happened in Hollywood in 1989 and involved Gunn and another Norwich player . |
| 18 | All these developments certainly happened within a few months of each other . |
| 19 | The police just happened to be checking cars today . |
| 20 | Do you really believe that the first contact after weeks of silence just happened by sheer coincidence to fall on the same day as your arrival here ? |
| 21 | The same thing always happened to him at school if he was brought out to the front of the hall for talking in assembly , or if he had to stand in the aisle with his hands on his head for not paying attention in class . |
| 22 | The two counties also happened to be playing a 2nd XI match at Stratford , where Cranmer made both his first and last appearance as a Warwickshire 2nd XI player . |
| 23 | The most common request is that everything should be set back the way it was at time X and it should appear as though the work carried out on package Y never happened at all ! |