Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it happened [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big question is n't so much how it happened as why ? |
| 2 | How it happened to me . |
| 3 | So this business of of understanding how it happened from the , in inverted commas , victim 's point of view um this business of understanding the subsequent effects , this business of understanding the extent , ah are all enormously problematic and um it 's one of these things I would n't particularly like to have to design a survey of because it 's absolutely fraught with difficulty but nevertheless some some attempts have been made um as I have indicated . |
| 4 | Er yes we with the the the prediction , phase one we did n't predict the partial opening of the bypass clearly before we did it , that was just how it happened in practice . |
| 5 | ‘ We wonder why it happened to our Danny and right now we just ca n't find the answer to that . |
| 6 | The same analytical method can be adopted in identifying what happened and why it happened in an accident which is entirely operational in character , though in such a case there would be greater dependence upon some of the less precise characteristics of human behaviour in the explanation of why certain things were done . |