Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] happen " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I knew that there was always the danger that I could lose my sight , but I really thought it only happened later in life , ’ says Philippa .
2 They insisted it never happened .
3 How did it just happen that Harris could maintain his Offensive despite disastrous occasions like Nuremburg .
4 Did it really happen ?
5 Did it really happen ?
6 ‘ … one was a female pauper of very advanced age who had laboured for many years under a complication of incurable disorders , and her situation was so desperate as to have precluded her from being received into the House had it not happened that she was the first patient presented .
7 Nick and I never saw that , but people said it often happened .
8 General Francis said it so happened that he owned the fishing rights on a fairly respectable stretch of water .
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