Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] happen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was wet on the ground , + I slipped , but unfortunately the same bench that I mentioned previously happened to be in my way again . |
| 2 | Oddly enough , I did n't happen to be in my room again when Terry Wogan came to see me before the show on the second occasion . |
| 3 | When all the time I had actually been with him I had always realized he was the type to make a pass at the nearest girl with his last gasp , and I had just happened to be that girl . |
| 4 | I am glad to say that immense capital investment is going into that , which did not happen under the last Labour Government . |
| 5 | Tony was supposed to have been singing in a Black Sabbath ‘ reunion ’ in the States , which did n't happen for him in the end , but that gave us some breathing space . |
| 6 | Instances of police racial harassment which had always happened to other people , were now happening to us . |
| 7 | No no that was , that was erm a com a completely er something which had never happened before |
| 8 | That small problem solved itself readily : one door stood open with Bruce Davidson leaning on the side in a careful presentation of a man who had just happened to be passing . |
| 9 | So if you had n't happened to of gone you know |
| 10 | When you talked to judges in the Sixties , they might have told you they did n't happen at all or would be willing to concede that a miscarriage might take place once every 10 years . ’ |
| 11 | We try to keep aberrations like that to an absolute minimum — we 'd rather they did n't happen at all , obviously , but every so often the gremlins creep in . |
| 12 | I mean someone who would just sit down and tell you things , as if they had just happened on the way home . |
| 13 | Well that was n't why , he did n't , well he did n't happen to that one . |
| 14 | That was a very shrewd thing to say in 1940 but it did not happen for nearly five years . |
| 15 | It did not happen in some weird sect but in one of the largest and most prestigious Presbyterian churches in the Los Angeles area . |
| 16 | Mr. Hughes : Had that happened , it would have been fine , but we know that it did not happen in the vast majority of cases . |
| 17 | Wanting someone , like he wanted Kelly Connor , was no novelty to Jack — hardly a day passed when it did n't happen to him — but a quick telephone call and a Suzi or a Debra , one of his sexual Samaritans , would be there to make it feel better . |
| 18 | We can only be thankful it did n't happen to the Queen . ’ |
| 19 | But it did n't happen to me . |
| 20 | She supposed wearily that she should be hoping this last thing would still happen , should be making it happen if it did n't happen on its own , but she knew that however hopeless this love for him was , it was the most precious and valuable thing she had ever experienced . |
| 21 | But since it did n't happen on their home ground they will be requesting witnesses from where it did happen . |
| 22 | Anyway , it did n't happen like that , and Coffin knew it . |
| 23 | But it did n't happen like that and you 've got to make the best of it . ’ |
| 24 | And I went oh God , that 's probably cos it did n't happen like this and he goes oh right and he goes yeah got a bit excited there for a minute did n't you son like and went er yeah well Andy I like , quite like him , he 's quite sweet but |
| 25 | and it did n't happen in thirty nine because remember how monstrous it was |
| 26 | I actually feel , there was a time I used to think it would n't happen to me because if I was in that situation I would do this , I would do the next thing and when it did actually happen to me it took me ages to get over |
| 27 | He drew back , saying it had nearly happened with another girl but she was a Catholic . |
| 28 | The feeling almost wiped out that terrible year as if it had n't happened at all . |
| 29 | He was mystified by this phenomenon ; it had never happened to him before , so he took it as a kind of omen . |
| 30 | It had never happened to him in his life before . |