Example sentences of "it happened " in BNC.
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| 1 | It happened very quickly , she said . |
| 2 | ‘ It might be as well , ’ she said majestically , ‘ if we all said where we were when it happened . |
| 3 | A sensitive pilot could then be so confused that he would be unable to respond logically to the situation , particularly if it happened at night or in cloud . |
| 4 | And the woman — whose name , it happened , was Aurora — whittered on about an infidelity performed against her by a titled husband , an imminent divorce , a Sunday paper scandal . |
| 5 | This wanting teased him on as it happened — contingent naturalism — to murder . |
| 6 | He accepts it happened and he is appalled by it , ’ he said . |
| 7 | It happened during one of Mrs Mouse 's musical evenings . |
| 8 | As it happened , the gamble paid off handsomely . |
| 9 | It happened shortly after 500 athletes set off on the Rowntree Athletic Club 's 10-mile road race at the weekend . |
| 10 | Van Der Meulen realised that change had to come but he was surely saddened by the way it happened . |
| 11 | In April 1979 , on the eve of a British general election as it happened , Bishop Muzorewa 's United African Council received more than 60 per cent of the votes in a general election , and the Methodist Bishop became Prime Minister of ‘ Zimbabwe-Rhodesia ’ , although in the face of the opposition of the Nkomo/Mugabe forces . |
| 12 | As it happened , largely because of a world-wide expansion in trade , the British economy advanced considerably down to 1987 . |
| 13 | As it happened , the Great War intervened and provided the Conservatives with an opportunity to confirm what had been an uncertain trend towards a reshaping and consolidation of the right . |
| 14 | In the spring , almost without knowing how it happened , she accepted Rachel 's invitation to go and live with her in the new house she was buying in London . |
| 15 | The idea behind trying to get together with Imperial was to create a world-size food company with , as it happened , tobacco money to back it up , because the cashflow from tobacco is much more than the tobacco business actually requires to sustain it . |
| 16 | It happened while he was still managing director of the company in charge of the fleet . |
| 17 | So after it happened a few times our teacher said ‘ We wo n't have cooking like this any more . ’ |
| 18 | It happened to us |
| 19 | It happened to me |
| 20 | ‘ Of course I was terrified when it happened , ’ she recalls , ‘ but I 'm not the sort to be beaten . |
| 21 | ‘ It happened quite slowly , so I did n't stop doing the things I had always done — apart from driving . |
| 22 | God knows how it happened , there was n't another thing on the road , but the Jag overturned and caught fire . |
| 23 | ‘ She 's been in a coma since it happened six weeks ago . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Then it happened , ’ Cullam said suddenly . |
| 25 | I 'm only — I wo n't say glad , no , that would be quite the wrong word , but , shall I say relieved , that it happened last night . ’ |
| 26 | As it happened , the ritual of Magdalen chapel was ‘ Low Church ’ and that of the Headington Quarry church was ‘ High ’ . |
| 27 | They , guided by the strong impression in ‘ literary ’ circles that Chambers was an old bore and Fox was a non-starter , put up their own candidate , Lord David Cecil , a friend of Lewis 's , as it happened , and the English tutor at New College . |
| 28 | The practice does take place in the Church of Ireland , though as it happened , it did not seem to have come Lewis 's way at St Mark 's , Dundela . |
| 29 | It happened once while he was trying to make up his mind to do a very dangerous job in the last war . |
| 30 | It happened in Brazil last year . |