Example sentences of "[verb] happen [be] [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What seemed to have happened was that Scotland 's economic cycle had gradually moved out of synchronisation with the national one . |
| 2 | What had happened was that Stirling 's static line had snagged on the tail section as he exited from the door , and two panels were ripped from the parachute , causing him to descend too rapidly . |
| 3 | What had happened was that Mark James , playing with Nicklaus , had missed the green , shanked his chip right across the green , and then taken a train ride to get the putt for a four . |
| 4 | Being quite intuitive , I did notice there was a funny tension between Ken Pitt and David and I thought that probably what had happened was that David had not been satisfied performing ‘ When I Live My Dream ’ with the old backing tracks , as he had been working with Tony Visconti and had all these new tunes and productions and ways of doing things in his head . |
| 5 | What had happened was that Birkenhead , Austen Chamberlain , Worthington Evans , Derby and Joynson Hicks had , together or separately ( and , according to Bridgeman , backed by Beaverbrook and Rothermere ) succeeded in persuading Balfour that Baldwin intended to resign ; that he should , if asked by the King , advise him to choose not MacDonald nor Asquith , but another Conservative- Derby or Austen Chamberlain , because he held Baldwin personally to blame rather than his party ; further , they had so worked on Stamfordham , that if Baldwin had gone to resign at once , the advice tendered to the King by his private secretary would have been the same . |