Example sentences of "it happened [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It happened while he was still managing director of the company in charge of the fleet . |
| 2 | It happened while I was still with the SDECE . |
| 3 | It happened while workmen were trying to mend faulty overhead cabling in the field where the stock were grazing . |
| 4 | I do n't recall it very well , for it happened before I came , and I was too young to be much interested , in any event . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ In my defence , I should say it happened before the body was discovered . |
| 6 | ‘ It happened after I had left . |
| 7 | It happened after we were 2–0 down with 15 mins left ! |
| 8 | It happened after a shot was handled on the line , and left United with only ten players for most of the match . |
| 9 | It happened after police in an unmarked car had been following a stolen Maestro for several minutes . |
| 10 | Throughout his career he seemed to be around when it happened but the finger of accusation rarely pointed in his direction . |
| 11 | Anyway , you were asleep when it happened but they might want to have a word , so — ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't know exactly how it happened but yes , it was definitely me . ’ |
| 13 | Most of Ray 's cows were grazing in another field when it happened but those he lost were his most valuable . |
| 14 | Miss Harrison 's adopted father Godfrey Hutchinson said : ‘ We still do n't know exactly how it happened but we know her boyfriend leapt after her to try to help . |
| 15 | No listen we were all on two twenty five , I ca n't remember how it happened but Amanda explained it to me , about Joe . |
| 16 | It happened that none of them were , last week . |
| 17 | As it happened that could not have worked out better . |
| 18 | It happened that I called at Beatrice 's house the last time Aunt Nessy visited there — the time before she was banished . |
| 19 | And so it happened that Jenny came to live with Winnie Bailey , rejoicing in her new flat and the modern kitchen where she had full scope for her passion for cooking . |
| 20 | However , it happened that the first audio typist in Britain was a woman , Mary Ferguson , who was governess to the children of Colonel Gouraud , Edison 's representative in Britain . |
| 21 | It happened that one of the doctors practised hypnosis , and the sister of the ward concerned approached him and asked him if he could do anything to calm this patient who was disrupting the ward routine and upsetting the nurses . |
| 22 | Now it happened that a few days earlier Jones had called up Lee R. Phillips , an attorney associated with Brigham Young University , in order to file a patent arising from his muon-fusion work . |
| 23 | It happened that I had come to ‘ cut and sew ’ necklines in class . |
| 24 | Well , it happened that Maureen and Aubrey were about to set off on a round-Britain motoring holiday . |
| 25 | The officer waited out in the corridor and so it happened that , on leaving , one of the nurses in a hurry to get home said : ‘ You could take her flowers if you 're going back in . ’ |
| 26 | In one group it happened that every week the same woman would say , ‘ I ca n't read that , it makes me too nervous . |
| 27 | Thirdly , it happened that virtually all of the Realists in the early years were immigrants from Europe . |
| 28 | Shouting was necessary , for it happened that a high-speed train was rushing by at just that moment on a main line to the east coast . |
| 29 | Because of the show 's alternation between historical tales and science fiction adventures , it happened that Barry Newbery wound up doing most of the stories in Earth 's past , while Raymond Cusick got the bulk of the sf material — an on-going process that tested his imagination to the limits . |
| 30 | It happened that , for whatever reason , the charge was signed only by the first appellant , whereas both of them were entitled to the freehold . |