Example sentences of "that it [verb] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recollect that it had happened before to the team 's predecessors , practically on the same spot . |
| 2 | It was the kind of tragedy that so often called for sympathy — a momentary sympathy and thrill of horror , mixed with shamefaced satisfaction that it had happened to someone else -before one passed on to less disturbing news . |
| 3 | Brought up in the ethic of duty , this was hard for Jane to get used to , but when she broke out into the sunshine , it was all the more joyous , and she thanked God , or Nature , or Fate , or whatever power there is , that it had happened for her in her lifetime . |
| 4 | The first rule of surviving a disaster , I had written , was to accept that it had happened and make the best of what was left . |
| 5 | I was astonished — no one in my family had ever suffered from it but the doctor explained that it had happened entirely because of the shock of the mugging . |
| 6 | All he could say was that it had to be called a great and profound change , and that it had happened , ‘ I have a feeling of being at home when I am with her , as though she gives me my own hearth , a feeling that our lives are interwoven . ’ |
| 7 | It was too much , now that it had happened . |
| 8 | It seemed impossible that it had happened , but from his pocket he unwound the cord and let it dangle from his hand . |
| 9 | It was something that it had happened at all . |
| 10 | And she knew she did , but it was only during this moment that it had happened , in this moment of revelation . |
| 11 | Now we did n't have a voice , remember we were never even informed before or until two years later after the event that it had happened . |
| 12 | Only now that it had happened it was n't in the least funny . |
| 13 | Her only excuse was that it had happened so quickly — too quickly . |
| 14 | But in doing so I 'd be telling her that I knew that it had happened and therefore that Simon had talked to me . |
| 15 | I am glad , therefore , that it has happened thus . ' |
| 16 | The defensive manoeuvre behind it is something like this : if I do n't acknowledge that this thing has happened then I do n't have to believe it is true ; I wo n't have to understand what has occurred if I hold off from consciously realizing that it has happened . |
| 17 | A salesman whose last two months ' returns fall below the required norm may be thought to be failing , until one knows that this is the first time that it has happened in five years . |
| 18 | Suppose the origin of intelligence is so improbable that it has happened on only one planet in the universe , even though life has started on many planets . |
| 19 | The fact that it has happened before , or even that the opportunity is always there is something I do n't mention . |
| 20 | Now Ministers utter the word only in order to deny that it has happened . |
| 21 | I know that it has happened in some regions , but that is certainly not evident in the areas of which I am most aware , where the problem seems great . |
| 22 | I shall give way if Opposition Members wish to deny that , but I believe that it has happened . |
| 23 | ‘ It would be foolish to forget that it 's happened before . |
| 24 | Obviously you need to appeal to the Regional Committee if as a branch you 're not happy , but this rule should n't need to be bent , we should have one that is ours to be used for branches , the General Secretary himself says that it 's happened on several occasions so let's be a real trade union , not one that borrows from Peter to pay Paul , let's have a proper rule for branches . |
| 25 | It has n't surprised me that it 's happened again . |
| 26 | He was loved so much , it 's unbelievable that it 's happened . |
| 27 | Eye-witnesses insist that it did happen and , further , that 80-odd ( or even very odd ) people showed up . |
| 28 | Justin : We reassure them that it wo n't happen again without actually mentioning that it did happen . |
| 29 | Erm so anyway the fact that it did happen obviously means that something 's wrong even though I 'll argue that it did n't seem as bad as he was presenting . |