Example sentences of "happened was " in BNC.
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| 1 | What happened was this . |
| 2 | ‘ Under Reagan , everything bad that happened was either my fault or Nixon 's fault or Congress 's fault or some foreigner 's … |
| 3 | His friends on the Union committee thought that what happened was best accounted for if he saw a vision of his dead mother in the gallery watching him speak . |
| 4 | I think what happened was that Nick had been hanging around waiting to get hold of her . |
| 5 | What happened was , when we 'd go there to rehearse on a Friday night , he would disappear for an hour or so . |
| 6 | According to very senior sources who were present at the final session of the summit , what actually happened was subtly different from the PR people 's version . |
| 7 | So , of course , what happened was that you had all these wonderful posters about you as you walked in the foyer and as the punters came out drunk , you sold them weekends in Ibiza . |
| 8 | What happened was that we began to do all kinds of things that are normally done to support a tour that you farm out , but we used to do it in-house , so we had our own publicity department , our own travel department — we booked our own flights and our own hotels , we did n't use a travel agency . |
| 9 | What happened was that he started doing his English Ziggy Stardust dates in early ‘ 72 and he worked without stopping until the summer of ‘ 73 when he did his Hammersmith Odeon concert and retired from the stage . |
| 10 | Kingsley Amis , who wrote an adventure for Bond as well as creating Jim Dixon , reflects aptly on the reasons for his : ‘ What happened was that we came in at the tail end of the literary tradition to the effect that no decent girl enjoys sex — only tarts were supposed to do that . |
| 11 | The last time that happened was with an Irish judge in the 1830s . |
| 12 | All that happened was that individual kings and individual magnates or magnate families sometimes came into collision . |
| 13 | What actually happened was that a less doctrinaire magistracy put local taxes up in order to provide bread for poor families . |
| 14 | Since their interest in the past was primarily moralistic , precise knowledge of actual events and when they happened was not required . |
| 15 | All that happened was that the right to require his actual service was waived . |
| 16 | The next thing that happened was six years after the Select Committee . |
| 17 | What happened was like a farce in the theatre ! |
| 18 | What actually happened was that they would disappear before you got there . |
| 19 | What actually happened was that she somehow became separated from the others , decided to walk to work and fell in a ditch on her way up the hill . |
| 20 | However , what actually happened was something quite different to that visualised by nearly all the participants . |
| 21 | What happened was that he fell in love . |
| 22 | ‘ What happened was , the track was very heavy and I guess Michael wanted to go more toward a ballad direction , so what they did was sell the song to Cher and she sang on it . |
| 23 | ‘ What happened was Chester Thompson brought them all down , because he had met me about a year prior to that and we just corresponded . |
| 24 | What happened was that the various decisions were taken by technicians and others in staff positions and fed into the line management structure . |
| 25 | ‘ What happened was the result of sloppy supervision , a poor system and inadequate checks , ’ he said . |
| 26 | What really happened was that he had to climb a length of rope which had mattresses underneath it so that at the end of each take he could simply drop to the ground in safety . |
| 27 | ‘ Bloody bridge , ’ Gerry said , ‘ the last time this happened was about five years ago , when Jack Thompson saw something . |
| 28 | I think that what happened was that a lot of traditional union members , that is , the white , heterosexual male stewards who normally formed its backbone , for once took a back-seat , and allowed us to get on with it — to organize in our own way which we did . |
| 29 | What actually happened was that the buyer became suspicious and decided to check out the competition . |
| 30 | Perhaps disappointingly , after all this thought to protection from viruses , we have not been seriously attacked : the worst that happened was an attempt to lead us into an adventure game . |