Example sentences of "[pron] had [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Instances of police racial harassment which had always happened to other people , were now happening to us . |
| 4 | While Nails was still reading his comic , she lay down and got up twice , which had never happened before . |
| 5 | No no that was , that was erm a com a completely er something which had never happened before |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So if you had n't happened to of gone you know |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | I mean someone who would just sit down and tell you things , as if they had just happened on the way home . |
| 14 | Did the C E C know it had not happened ? |
| 15 | After all these years it had finally happened ! |
| 16 | He drew back , saying it had nearly happened with another girl but she was a Catholic . |
| 17 | It had already happened ! |
| 18 | He saw himself , as in a mirror , lifting the black cloth from her white flesh , felt , as if it had already happened , the softness of her body closing around him . |
| 19 | But why could n't he rid himself of the eerie sensation that it had already happened , that everyone knew except him , that he was being deliberately kept in the dark ? |
| 20 | It was strange now , walking through the same streets , to know that by then it had already happened . |
| 21 | Now he told me , that night we got so drunk , that it was because of you that it had n't happened . |
| 22 | All the same , ’ she sighed , ‘ I wish it had n't happened just now . ’ |
| 23 | Perhaps if it had n't happened so handily by chance , he would have engineered a meeting . |
| 24 | And then , six weeks after the funeral , he had suddenly found himself able to believe that it had n't happened , not in that way , and that the whole horror was a childhood fantasy . |
| 25 | There was no use pretending it had n't happened : I had wished for a pure Pacific experience , a truly new world experience at the dawning of this day , yet it had become hopelessly muddied with a relic of the old world and the Ocean whose time , we are now supposed to believe , has passed . |
| 26 | This public assertion of my childhood 's usefulness stands side by side with the painful personal knowledge , I think the knowledge of all of us , going as far back as the story lets us , that it would have been better if it had n't happened that way , had n't happened at all . |
| 27 | The feeling almost wiped out that terrible year as if it had n't happened at all . |
| 28 | If I was lucky , Gav would be so shocked at the very idea I had had carnal knowledge of an aunt — even one of the not-really-an-aunt variety — that he would just pretend it had n't happened . |
| 29 | There was a long pause and then , somewhat reluctantly , Cassie said : ‘ I did n't realize that it had n't happened yet . |
| 30 | If , for instance , it was a one-night stand while he was working away , then of course it 's upsetting and you wish it had n't happened but you can , perhaps , make sense of it . |