Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adv] happened " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was on bass , David was on acoustic guitar and we got this guy called Tex , he was a black conga player and came around with us doing a few gigs , although nothing really happened . |
| 2 | First , you should examine what the terms of your contract require rather than what actually happened during the existence of that contract . |
| 3 | Perhaps it was important erm because as as as erm , as I 'm I 'm fond of saying that in history perhaps what you believe is more important than what actually happened . |
| 4 | She had so much wanted to be fancied , it seemed a cruel blow to think that if it ever happened it might only be by someone as awful as Sean Walsh . |
| 5 | You 're not kidding he certainly ai n't kidding you now now it 's happened to me I know if it ever happened I know never to do it again . |
| 6 | Now if it so happened that the A sixty one was seen as a marginally shorter route , then the model would have sent all the through traffic along the A s sixty one and none along around the bypass . |
| 7 | It 's as if it never happened . |
| 8 | I told him they said there was n't enough to go on , but if anything else happened it would all count . ’ |
| 9 | Within Christianity bread and wine are sacramental not because they just happened to be on the table for a Jewish meal but because they were signs of the covenant . |
| 10 | I do n't know if it was because it never happened , or because they did n't think I was the right person to talk to . ’ |
| 11 | The forces of evil must have been working smoothly that day because it so happened that the spot he chose was the position within yards of the epicentre of terror that had frightened the railwaymen so many years earlier . |
| 12 | on germs and diseases and cuts and first aid things , after the St. John 's Ambulance , but since it never happened |
| 13 | And also , the use of the yellow background , I do n't know , erm whether it was deliberately chosen or whether she just happened to be standing there , but the yellow background makes it stand out . |
| 14 | Now , she was n't sure whether she truly loved the Navaho , or whether he simply happened to be the only human being she had contact with . |
| 15 | Whether this ever happened without dangerous cause , whether it often happened , what it signified , of all this she had no idea . |
| 16 | His early involvement in this so-called jazz-poetry — which achieved such popularity in the sixties — shows that Leonard , not for the first time , and certainly not the last , was ‘ where it was all happening ’ before it actually happened . |
| 17 | I wanted to get out before anything worse happened . |
| 18 | When nothing else happened disappointment diluted her excitement . |
| 19 | Alan was in London talking business with his agent , Audrey Ellison , when she just happened to mention a letter she had received from a friend in Budapest about a young pianist who was about to be hauled into the Hungarian army to do his national service . |
| 20 | ‘ No , ’ he said , ‘ but I was there when something else happened . |
| 21 | What was the feeling in the lodge when it eventually happened . |
| 22 | In spite of all the worrying about it the next stage with Edward still took Sally by surprise when it actually happened . |
| 23 | This is daft when you 've lost your job through no fault of your own ; when it really happened because your company had to contract , were firing people on the ‘ last in , first out ’ basis and you had n't been there long . |
| 24 | ‘ We can never dismiss yesterday as though it never happened , because we carry it with us from moment to moment until the end of our days . ’ |
| 25 | A somewhat different case is García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude which recounts the history of the small town of Macondo , not so much as it actually happened , but as its inhabitants experienced and interpreted it and as it was transmitted by popular oral tradition . |
| 26 | As it so happened , emerging civilisation created communities in various parts of the world , spaced at intervals covering long periods of time , each community being unaware of the others , and each developing some form of religion and worship . |
| 27 | As it so happened another young scholar , one who 's life was to become inextricably bound up with the politics of Trinidad , was also just about to make the same journey . |
| 28 | As it so happened the decision of Pope Innocent II that Mabel was illegitimate , because of her father 's first contractual marriage , was later superseded by the judgment of Pope Alexander III that the children of annulled marriages , which had been made " in the presence of the church " ( i.e. in good faith and in public ) , were to be regarded as legitimate . |
| 29 | I actually mar marked twelve closed questions as it so happened but that 's , that 's neither here nor there , that 's ju that 's just a point of reference . |