Example sentences of "[conj] this [adv] happened " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm inclined to believe that this probably happened after the guitar left the Hamer factory ; any quality control worth its salt would have picked it up , otherwise . |
| 2 | In Germany and north Italy it seems that this never happened . |
| 3 | One reason for the reconciliation of the middle and upper classes to the gradual extension of the franchise was that this never happened . |
| 4 | In some cases they may explode or manage to throw off enough matter to reduce their mass below the limit and so avoid catastrophic gravitational collapse , but it was difficult to believe that this always happened , no matter how big the star . |
| 5 | The overall guiding role of the party was therefore likely to meet with resistance at some stage and there are signs that this indeed happened increasingly in the post-Stalinist period . |
| 6 | Interestingly there is no evidence that this ever happened , so it is considered by de Vaux as ‘ a Utopian law ’ . |
| 7 | We can forget we ever met , that this ever happened , leave this place as it should be . ’ |
| 8 | I have been informed that this once happened , with the death of a number of hounds . |
| 9 | After 1945 democratic socialist parties in a number of West European countries were able , for the first time , to form governments or to become major partners in coalition governments , and thus impart a new direction to economic and social policy making ( and this also happened to some extent in other regions of the world , though encountering greater difficulties ) . |
| 10 | There is , of course , always a danger that , in industries with some monopoly power , an element of competition , far from being beneficial , will induce uneconomic cross-subsidisation to win business , and this certainly happened in some areas . |
| 11 | Six of them during their career were headmasters of great schools , and this never happened before 1829 , and was a sign of the rising importance which the nation gave to the teaching profession . |
| 12 | But this actually happened ! |
| 13 | But this never happened . |
| 14 | Unionists therefore looked forward to domination of the government : but this never happened . |
| 15 | Whether this ever happened without dangerous cause , whether it often happened , what it signified , of all this she had no idea . |