Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] happened [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The orderly American " dating " we saw in films or heard about in pop songs never happened in my adolescence . |
| 2 | Why was it , she wondered , that weird things always happened to her ? |
| 3 | I wonder why things always happened on a Monday , but it seemed to be the case . |
| 4 | ‘ Things always happened around Julie and Elizabeth , ’ he says . |
| 5 | But doctors did notice that the epidemics usually happened in the hot months of the year ; and that was when the miasmic smells from primitive or non-existent sewerage were at their worst . |
| 6 | Pilkington disliked the impression conveyed that these friendly personalities just happened to be recommending products as though they were disinterested parties . |
| 7 | The grass was lucky if it grew , was shone upon and rained upon , and was not burned , and was not pulled up by the roots , or poisoned , or buried when the ground was turned over , and some bits just happened to be on a line that humans wanted to walk on , and so got trampled , broken , pressed flat , with no malice ; just effect . |
| 8 | As a middle-aged bishop he was reluctant to believe that miracles still happened in his world as they had in the time of the Lord and his apostles . |
| 9 | All these developments certainly happened within a few months of each other . |
| 10 | The police just happened to be checking cars today . |
| 11 | The two counties also happened to be playing a 2nd XI match at Stratford , where Cranmer made both his first and last appearance as a Warwickshire 2nd XI player . |