Example sentences of "[adv] as it happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pink Industry played on , rather ineffectively as it happened . |
| 2 | Just write it all as it happens . |
| 3 | The only other coloured children in the school , all as it happened adopted too , were much younger , so all her peers and all her friends were white ; two of these have remained close friends into adult life . |
| 4 | Er so as it happened this girl had got the material erm a wild silk cream and er Elizabeth made up this dress for her of course er Michael Caine 's daughter i is quite a busty girl , you know |
| 5 | It was implied , rightly as it happened , that such a policy was unlikely to be acceptable to the National Government and that a broad alliance must be formed in Britain to replace the Chamberlain administration . |
| 6 | ‘ Not as it happened to your people , in one immense disaster . |
| 7 | The ‘ new conservatives ’ have made it worse by arguing , incorrectly as it happens , that since the children of the élite for the most part ( and for both genetic and environmental reasons ) become the élite , then the elaborate process of selection may as well be shortened and a plain hereditary principle reintroduced . |
| 8 | In the nineteenth century , it was possible to see female castration as a cure , just as it happens these days that women request cosmetic surgery to make their genitalia look ‘ more tidy ’ . |
| 9 | Madam chairman , er just as it happens er I 've I 've been in conversation with Mr assistant |
| 10 | The ceremonial that unrolled before the cameras was displayed , just as it happened , on television sets ( black and white only ) in living rooms , offices and bedrooms from Presque Isle in Maine to Key West in Florida , and in all salient points between such as New York , Pittsburgh and Washington DC . |
| 11 | I tell it just as it happened , from where we ran up the hill almost straight into the man ; I leave out what Andy and I were doing just before , and the man 's line about dirty , perverted things . |
| 12 | I 've told you the truth , exactly as it happened . |
| 13 | Yes , yeah , but again as soon as it happens let us know . |
| 14 | I was telephoned at home as soon as it happened and when I arrived everyone was here , police , fire brigade , the gas board and the bomb squad . |
| 15 | I was talking , yesterday as it happened , to the chairman of another very large children 's charity and I asked him how his , the spend , the annual spend of that charity was distributed between the work of the charity , the purpose of the charity and the support functions and he said about eighty twenty . |
| 16 | There 's a local telephone number , which I 've already had occasion to use , unsuccessfully as it happens , and , I think , Anne , you were also involved in that significant problem , on er on that there is a loc er no plumber . |
| 17 | Erm well as it happens it 's er that , this is something I wanted to bring up with you . |
| 18 | Well as it happens , this . |
| 19 | I thought to myself , even as it happened , that this winking of my very self-consciousness was a nice expression of the value I represented . |
| 20 | No , I do n't as it happens know the Watsons . |
| 21 | ‘ Peter began and explained everything to them precisely as it happened ’ ( Acts 11:4 ) . |
| 22 | You were there as it happens . |
| 23 | This wanting teased him on as it happened — contingent naturalism — to murder . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't know that I wish to be tossed anywhere as it happens . |
| 25 | He was very canny actually as it happened ! |