Example sentences of "[verb] happened " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing I distinctly remember about watching that kestrel hover happened on a clear blue day when I 'd managed to position myself practically underneath the bird . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's what Mr Hjerson has the effrontery to be claiming has happened . ’ |
| 3 | Well , be realistic and accept what has happened . ’ |
| 4 | Most unintentional stalls occur , by definition , unexpectedly and usually the first obvious sign of what has happened is that the pilot is banging the stick on the rear stop with the nose still dropping — a frightening feeling . |
| 5 | Occasionally the woman may not realise that this has happened , and so may become pregnant . |
| 6 | This structural awareness can be as hard to handle as any decision to try to publish the account , for what has happened in the past and what is expected now from the insider is tied up with an understanding of how the institution of policing prefers to present a restricted image for outside consumption , as I have described above . |
| 7 | Fortunately , referees are often able to tell when this has happened , and instead of disallowing the score they may impose a serious penalty for feigning injury ! |
| 8 | Does he know what has happened in Tranent ? , |
| 9 | It has happened in France , Cameron felt like saying , and then the thought of the gulf between France and Scotland came over him so dauntingly that he suffered a backwash of despair . |
| 10 | It means something has been said or something has happened that has put the subject of the remark in an uncomfortable place . |
| 11 | Everything that has happened to her over the past year has been genuine , from breaking her thumb to the operation , not to mention all the hassle she has had from standing by her father . |
| 12 | This is precisely what has happened at Malham ( and though I find it visually offensive I still climb there , as do hundreds of others ) . |
| 13 | It has happened . |
| 14 | Crime and Punishment was different in that Dostoevsky never supposed lots of people would begin committing Raskolnikov-type murders ; Danilov doing so was enough to produce from him the exclamation ‘ It has happened ! ’ |
| 15 | His name has been moderately conjured with by British academics , but there have been few attempts to systematize his work for the classroom , as has happened in the United States . |
| 16 | Leavisism assumed that its rewriting of the canon had a once-and-for-all quality , so that it was inconceivable that anyone could come to admire Shelley again , though this is precisely what has happened under the influence of Harold Bloom , who is dedicated to overturning the Eliot-Leavis version of poetic history . |
| 17 | Among serious writers and readers in the United States ( as distinct from shallow and modish Anglophiles mostly around New York ) , it is taken for granted that Pound 's caustic dismissal of us in 1929 was justified , and that nothing has happened in the forty-five years since to alter that picture significantly . |
| 18 | As a result , the amendment can not be ‘ talked out ’ as has happened on every previous occasion , but will have to be resolved through a free vote . |
| 19 | ‘ This is the first time anything unusual has happened here since Goering occupied the building in 1940 , ’ one veteran observer was heard to remark . |
| 20 | Society , she says , may need to change its attitude to the perpetrators , from a climate where they are seen as ‘ monsters ’ faced with imprisonment to one where they can admit what has happened . |
| 21 | Deep down , he is convinced that he is the best thing that has happened to his country since the invention of goulash . |
| 22 | What has happened in the past half century , apart from the advance of technology , has been the erection of a firm framework of regulation , the appearance of specific safety technologies , such as industrial hygiene , and the advance of the idea that safety can and must be managed . |
| 23 | Anybody who swears allegiance to United must share the same sense of dismay at what has happened , and what is still going on — for me , it 's almost a sense of revulsion . |
| 24 | ‘ God help you , it 's the most exciting thing which has happened there since the man was buried , ’ he told me in his comfortably-scuffed office in Dublin . |
| 25 | That is exactly what has happened . |
| 26 | Now it has happened again . |
| 27 | Look what has happened in the last few days . |
| 28 | But it has happened , most recently under Stalin in December 1947 , when all cash in the possession of individuals above a maximum of 3,000 roubles was forcibly exchanged on a 10-for-one basis . |
| 29 | The same has happened at the Department of the Environment : Christopher Patten has conducted himself this week as the antithesis of an ideologue . |
| 30 | She said : ‘ This is not something that has happened before . |