Example sentences of "[vb past] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly , the cafe stopped being the place where I worked and once again it became the bizarre oasis that I 'd happened upon all those months earlier . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , certainly , ’ I said , and went to fetch some from the cold locker in the kitchen , thanking my stars that I 'd happened to see where the soft-drink cans were kept . |
| 3 | What , what 'd happened is that there 's a concrete span right at the back , and they 've the inner course off it , but the external bit built off the door frame . |
| 4 | They used to get petrified out of their their lives you know before they knew anything about it it it 'd happened to you . |
| 5 | if it 'd happened a couple of weeks ago when she was about I would of kept going over like she said I could do |
| 6 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 7 | Towards the end of field-work a constable newly transferred to the Neighbourhood Unit from one of the sections expressed his difficulties in adjusting to the new round of duties , stating that it was more difficult to pass the time because nothing seemed to happen ( FN 17/12/87 , p. 16 ) : establishing informal contact with the public was not yet itself seen as doing police work and boredom was unappealing . |
| 8 | Sometimes he felt desperately shy and this specially seemed to happen when titled laymen or captains of industry appeared . |
| 9 | There were charming carillons on the Continent , but something dreadful seemed to happen to Catholic bells when they crossed the Channel . |
| 10 | The staff at school loathed him , but found his genius for getting into locked cars undeniably useful whenever they lost their car keys , which seemed to happen quite frequently . |
| 11 | This never seemed to happen to other diving reptiles such as the ichthyosaurs . |
| 12 | Most would agree , with hindsight , that everything seemed to happen in slow motion , during and after the murder . |
| 13 | It all seemed to happen at once . |
| 14 | Now everything seemed to happen at top speed . |
| 15 | However — and it seemed to happen , or I became aware of it , quite suddenly — fatigue was setting in . |
| 16 | From then on it was the ‘ Dark Ages ’ when nothing seemed to happen at all . |
| 17 | What had happened was what always seemed to happen when there was trouble underground . |
| 18 | were all that seemed to happen |
| 19 | Nothing seemed to happen , so he pressed again . |
| 20 | Something seemed to happen then . |
| 21 | She wished Wainfleet would find a way of checking his stories without phoning her , it seemed to happen rather frequently . |
| 22 | ‘ All seemed to happen at once . |
| 23 | It was in 1918 , the last year of the war , when everything seemed to happen at once . |
| 24 | But you know further up the ladder , the union officials and what have you , it was just , they tried , the council tried and all this , and nothing seemed to happen . |
| 25 | After that everything seemed to happen in a hurry . ’ |
| 26 | Jack nodded and took a step towards Steve where he lay surrounded by his family , and then everything seemed to happen at once . |
| 27 | And , and it was , and even deciding on where the training needs were and writing them down and , and setting targets it , I do n't know it just seemed to happen , erm difficult at all . |
| 28 | I do n't know what I envisaged happening once I 'd parted you and Peter . |
| 29 | That what happened happened . |
| 30 | What happened happened ; destiny was not to be thwarted by mere human ambition . |