Example sentences of "that happened in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best bit 's when the light 's out , and I can listen to her breathing , and if I want to say summat — you know , summat that happened in the day — I can just speak soft and she 'll hear me . |
| 2 | She had a wonderful memory and recalled much that happened in both world wars . |
| 3 | ANEW book is about to remind America of the worst that happened in the Vietnam War . |
| 4 | You waste time in the present lamenting over something that happened in the past . |
| 5 | You feel guilty in the here and now about things that happened in the past which you can not correct . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , but that 's just something that happened in the outside world . |
| 7 | The raw materials are the real facts that happened in the past ; historians supply manufactured goods in which the facts are processed according to the prejudices of the manufacturers and the demands of the consumers . |
| 8 | Before they met she had accepted her call-up into the armed forces because it was one of the things that happened in wartime ; accepted it because it was a moral necessity . |
| 9 | They spent so much time talking about gay things that they did n't actually have much time to do many gay things — which is why I think the really crucial thing that happened in the seventies was not the liberation of a particular sexuality but actually the liberation of a particular set of relationships through which people could enjoy sex , or not have sex , as the case may be . |
| 10 | Or ill , depending on your view of all that happened in consequence . |
| 11 | Anything extraordinary that happened in Camp 3 , Zone I , was out of place . |
| 12 | This was a routine dawn incident that happened in Tuffah last month . |
| 13 | This was not done for imperial purposes , but once the navy had been developed it affected everything that happened in English policy . |
| 14 | The stuff that happened in the ‘ 70s was not black cinema . |
| 15 | It was true what was said of him — he knew everything , but everything that happened in the hotel , even , it seemed , what took place in the ladies ' lavatories . |
| 16 | The example serves to show , however , that almost any period in history is open to you if the things that happened in the past set your imagination whirling . |
| 17 | Did any any of you three see what anything that happened in the first one . |
| 18 | Everybody working for the Maquis knew about her loss , but no one helped — although their local information gathering was first-class , and they seemed to know just about everything that happened in Paris . |
| 19 | But er unfortunately , this is something that happened in the past and the government have been prosecuted for it , they 've been found guilty , but Blackpool 's name has been dragged way down with them . |
| 20 | But it 's a strange kind of thing that happened in this part of the country , the kind of story you get in Suffolk and Norfolk . |
| 21 | John was unlike anyone Anne knew with his views on everything that happened in the world . |
| 22 | For her , war was something that happened in other people 's lives , and even the most recent conflicts had failed to win her to the view that war could be , upon occasions , both right and just . |
| 23 | As Territorial Commander Eva was responsible for all that happened in Salvation Army circles . |
| 24 | Perhaps it is better , rather than roaming back into the recesses of geological time to consider the sudden and simultaneous extinctions that happened in Our geological yesterday . |
| 25 | Write a letter to Sherlock Holmes to tell him everything that happened in chapters 7 , 8 , and 9 . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I mean — was n't there anything else that happened in her life ? |
| 27 | The star of the Professionals went on : ‘ Why you want to write about something that happened in 1977 I do n't know . |
| 28 | I refer in that context to the observations of Lord President Cooper in MacCormick v. The Lord Advocate in 1953 , when Lord Cooper , generally regarded as one of the foremost Scottish jurists of this century , said : ’ The principle of the unlimited sovereignty of Parliament is a distinctively English principle which has no counterpart in Scottish constitutional law Considering that the Union legislation extinguished the Parliaments of Scotland and England and replaced them by a new Parliament , I have difficulty in seeing why it should have been supposed that the new Parliament of Great Britain must inherit all the peculiar characteristics of the English Parliament but none of the Scottish Parliament , as if all that happened in 1707 was that Scottish representatives were admitted to the Parliament of England . |
| 29 | In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct . |
| 30 | It was as though he could not be convinced ; as though he could hardly accept the fact that his father was no longer there , the final arbiter of all that happened in the business and in their domestic lives . |