Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was wet on the ground , + I slipped , but unfortunately the same bench that I mentioned previously happened to be in my way again . |
| 2 | Oddly enough , I did n't happen to be in my room again when Terry Wogan came to see me before the show on the second occasion . |
| 3 | When all the time I had actually been with him I had always realized he was the type to make a pass at the nearest girl with his last gasp , and I had just happened to be that girl . |
| 4 | I am glad to say that immense capital investment is going into that , which did not happen under the last Labour Government . |
| 5 | Other regions , which did not happen to pick up a rotation , would become oval-shaped objects called elliptical galaxies . |
| 6 | Tony was supposed to have been singing in a Black Sabbath ‘ reunion ’ in the States , which did n't happen for him in the end , but that gave us some breathing space . |
| 7 | After Hitler had again suggested in a speech in mid-March 1941 that Britain would be conquered and the war ended finally in Germany 's favour within the next year , people were heard to remark that ‘ the Führer had never held out a prospect of something which had not happened ’ , and that one could therefore unquestionably rely upon the imminent defeat of Britain and end of the war . |
| 8 | Instances of police racial harassment which had always happened to other people , were now happening to us . |
| 9 | While Nails was still reading his comic , she lay down and got up twice , which had never happened before . |
| 10 | No no that was , that was erm a com a completely er something which had never happened before |
| 11 | It was the main reason the party stayed so long the creature of the Magic Circle and the explanation for the exclusion , time and again , of otherwise talented party-members who did n't happen to have the right pedigree . |
| 12 | You did n't happen to notice another big button with SECRET VAULT FULL OF STOLEN TREASURE printed in big letters above it then ? ’ |
| 13 | You did n't happen to see this new series last night Mulberry did you ? |
| 14 | I love her and have never , ever , wished she had n't happened , but I have had no youth , no fun , no life worth living . |
| 15 | Apparently he was under the impression that she had arranged to see Richard again tonight ; he was also under the delusion that Richard was a Belgian whom she had just happened to pick up . |
| 16 | That small problem solved itself readily : one door stood open with Bruce Davidson leaning on the side in a careful presentation of a man who had just happened to be passing . |
| 17 | So if you had n't happened to of gone you know |
| 18 | Whatever you wanted just happened to turn up . |
| 19 | I was convinced that something had happened in our absence ; something had indeed happened — it had rained hard during the night and early morning — which was strange for that summer when we had a period of almost drought conditions . |
| 20 | I also had a look at the fact that Toby might well be — or have been — the man I 'd been waiting for , though God knows I 'd never have recognized him in a million years if we had n't happened , entirely by accident , to stumble into each other 's arms . |
| 21 | Some try to explain the miracles away and say that they did not happen . |
| 22 | They did not happen that often — at least the meals happened , but not often with such unanimity of good humour . |
| 23 | When you talked to judges in the Sixties , they might have told you they did n't happen at all or would be willing to concede that a miscarriage might take place once every 10 years . ’ |
| 24 | I reply : do you think they did n't happen ? |
| 25 | They did n't happen often , and could come at the unlikeliest times and places . |
| 26 | We try to keep aberrations like that to an absolute minimum — we 'd rather they did n't happen at all , obviously , but every so often the gremlins creep in . |
| 27 | His first comment was : ‘ I have n't seen much of Matthew recently ’ — as though they had n't happened to meet in the street for a week or two — not that they had n't spoken for nearly thirty years . ’ |
| 28 | I mean someone who would just sit down and tell you things , as if they had just happened on the way home . |
| 29 | It was a completely unique event as far as we were concerned it 'd never happened before and hopefully it 'll never happen again . |
| 30 | Well that was n't why , he did n't , well he did n't happen to that one . |