Example sentences of "[pron] did [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I am glad to say that immense capital investment is going into that , which did not happen under the last Labour Government . |
| 3 | Other regions , which did not happen to pick up a rotation , would become oval-shaped objects called elliptical galaxies . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You did n't happen to notice another big button with SECRET VAULT FULL OF STOLEN TREASURE printed in big letters above it then ? ’ |
| 7 | You did n't happen to see this new series last night Mulberry did you ? |
| 8 | Some try to explain the miracles away and say that they did not happen . |
| 9 | They did not happen that often — at least the meals happened , but not often with such unanimity of good humour . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | I reply : do you think they did n't happen ? |
| 12 | They did n't happen often , and could come at the unlikeliest times and places . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Well that was n't why , he did n't , well he did n't happen to that one . |
| 15 | As we know , it did not happen . |
| 16 | History records that it did not happen ; the RCP was marginalised by the post-war economic revival . |
| 17 | As Augustine pointed out , creation did not happen literally ‘ in the beginning ’ for it did not happen ‘ in ’ time : rather , time was itself a part of creation . |
| 18 | Just occasionally Nails managed it , and saw that finding the rhythm and rising and falling to it was the nub of the whole uncomfortable business , but it did not happen very often . |
| 19 | It did not happen in some weird sect but in one of the largest and most prestigious Presbyterian churches in the Los Angeles area . |
| 20 | Then the roof of the grotto glowed two times lighting the water and the company a little , nothing was to be seen of the keeper or his coffin , as though it did not happen . |
| 21 | It did not happen . |
| 22 | It did not happen . |
| 23 | Freud seems to be willing to put it this way , and then to want to insist again that it was an actual deed , otherwise the impact is immediately lost once we allow ourselves to think that it did not happen . |
| 24 | It did not happen : and yet the demise of the book , the transformation of the traditional classroom , and indeed the end of schools and colleges as we now know them , have all been forecast with an almost hilarious regularity throughout the century , with the results that we see around us . |
| 25 | And it did not happen here , not at St-Jean , it happened a hundred miles away and more , across the border , at Alassio , in another country , in my country , one of my countries . |
| 26 | It did not happen . |
| 27 | However , thanks to my evasive action it did not happen . |
| 28 | Mr. Hughes : Had that happened , it would have been fine , but we know that it did not happen in the vast majority of cases . |
| 29 | But it did not happen . |
| 30 | She had been a fool to let Muriel choose a place to have lunch and would take good care that it did not happen again . |