Example sentences of "[adv] this happened [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Effectively this happened in two stages — the first in the 1920s and 30s when British colonialism wanted to create an intermediate class in East African countries , and the second after World War II when Britain in common with other Western European countries was faced with a chronic shortage of labour . |
| 2 | Whether or not this happened to any extent in Britain we can not know , but any hint of it would undoubtedly have started wild rumours , fired by imagination which always accompanies sexual matters . |
| 3 | and also this happened in Shakespeare 's plays too . |
| 4 | precisely this happened in the case of two churches by Bassett Keeling , which both came under threat in the 1970s . |
| 5 | In his autobiography , he tries to see how this happened to ‘ the whole man ’ — to the man who had been haunted since youth by a sense of joy ’ , to the man whose love of Autumn , of Northernness , even of his own mother , was always , as he came to feel , a longing for one without whom our hearts will find no rest . |
| 6 | I would like , if I may , to give just one illustration of how this happened throughout the Pathfinders and to the same degree within the Main Force . |
| 7 | And within a few hours of taking it , that 's when this happened to me . |
| 8 | However this happened at the end of a fraught week . |
| 9 | Certainly this happened in some Partnerships . |