Example sentences of "it [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it rarely happens that way . |
| 2 | What was the feeling in the lodge when it eventually happened . |
| 3 | Usually , it only happens to grown-ups . |
| 4 | Rather strangely , it only happens during the Antarctic spring . |
| 5 | The Ulster Branch recognise the situation — it only happens like this once in a blue moon — but finding an answer is n't easy . |
| 6 | We know from other reported series it only happens on a very , very small number of patients . |
| 7 | It only happens usually once |
| 8 | it only happens since we put clocks forward . |
| 9 | ‘ I knew that there was always the danger that I could lose my sight , but I really thought it only happened later in life , ’ says Philippa . |
| 10 | In the case of 44% , it only happened once ; for 29% it happened more than once with the same person ; for 19% there were three or more different people on separate occasions . |
| 11 | She supposed it was magic , probably it only happened when you swung your head up in a certain way , she would test that tomorrow , and as she dropped asleep it lay alongside the tickets of paper with the numbers she had written , and the tar bubbles and the sun that made red horses and brown splotches when she closed her eyes . |
| 12 | Yeah , it only happened last week , Thursday |
| 13 | Could it only happen here ? |
| 14 | It so happens that this troublesome question , or complex of questions , is not raised by the piece in Eliot 's selection that I shall take to represent Pound 's criticism at its irreplaceable best . |
| 15 | It so happens that this rate is exactly the output of the building industry , averaged over the previous three years . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , as it so happens , various people have wished me congratulations ; very kind ; though did n't recognise most of them , I must say . ’ |
| 17 | A girl sits down with a man and he says , ‘ What you need is a good romance and it so happens I 'm very romantic ’ — that 's marketing . |
| 18 | As it so happens , Strand-on-the-Green was one of the very many places that felt the effects of the German bombing — in November 1940 , a German landmine landed in the area , destroying cottages on the north side of Thames Road . |
| 19 | Also , as it so happens , in August 1941 Winston Churchill had a meeting with President Roosevelt on board a British battleship , off the coast of Newfoundland , and that was followed by a further meeting at Christmas in Washington , when they agreed to send aid to Russia in the form of armaments , etc. , also they drew up the Atlantic Charter under which it was proclaimed that all peoples , in all parts of the world , would have the right to choose their own form of government . |
| 20 | By that time , as it so happens , it was apparent to many , and certainly Monty , that another war was becoming inevitable , so he applied all his energies into his career as an Army Officer . |
| 21 | It so happens that the Roman collections , which cover a geographical area from Britain to the Middle East and North Africa , fall within the interests of several departments of antiquities . |
| 22 | ‘ It so happens with the weather changing I bought a new windcheater and also a beret this morning . |
| 23 | ‘ Look , it so happens that a number of people have dropped out of the scheme for one reason or another , and there 's now a place for you at the end of the team . |
| 24 | It so happens that the names Upehull , Upsall and Upshall occur in the records of one very small village — the first in a lay subsidy roll of 1327 , the second in a manorial court roll of November 1550 , and the third in a number of documents down to the latest twentieth-century electoral rolls . |
| 25 | Try to pick out the sense of what I am saying For instance , it so happens that my grandson , Henry now works in the Marconi laboratory . |
| 26 | I speak from the heart here , as it so happens that my sister is to be married this month and my mother is trying her hardest to organise the wedding that we ( never mind my sister and fiancé , these things are family affairs ) , want . |
| 27 | As it so happens , I am actually innocent of the murders detailed in the extradition request before you . |
| 28 | It so happens that Couvelaire spends one or two weekends a month in his old family home in Biarritz . |
| 29 | It so happens that another growing tendency in contemporary thinking has been undermining the whole approach which leads to it . |
| 30 | ( If it so happens that yellow wallpaper does take away your appetite , then for you it is relevant . ) |