Example sentences of "the [noun] happened " in BNC.
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| 1 | The split happened after a property company took over the White Hart and raised the rent from £20,000 to £37,000 a year . |
| 2 | When the split happened he said : ‘ There was no one else involved . |
| 3 | No purely internal linguistic explanation can account for the fact that the change happened in this way in some dialects and in different ways in others . |
| 4 | The project will analyse the following of selected great magnates : six English earldoms and one contemporary Norman county , to see what exactly was the chronology of the change ; what sorts of men followed great magnates at what dates ; and to discover how precisely the change happened . |
| 5 | The change happened under the guidance of Beau Brummel , though Fox , according to Wraxall , had " first thrown a sort of discredit on dress " — and this great alteration , which Walpole had seen to begin , took place within the Age of Scandal . |
| 6 | The burglary happened on the anniversary of his death , and while the woman 's teenage son was asleep in the house . |
| 7 | The burglary happened between Sunday night and Monday morning . |
| 8 | The burglary happened at the end of February when Darlington Borough Council were changing locks at 500 old people 's flats after spare keys went missing . |
| 9 | The burglary happened at the end of February when Darlington Borough Council was changing locks at 500 old people 's flats after spare keys went missing . |
| 10 | But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground , and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place ; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given , that for anything I knew , the watch might have always been there . |
| 11 | The chaos happened after workmen resurfaced a mile and a half stretch of the motorway north of junction 16 between Watford Gap and the turn off for the M-45 . |
| 12 | Even though the case happened in the United States , are the issues it raises the same everywhere ? |
| 13 | If you dozed off and the computer happened to break down , the silence generally woke you . |
| 14 | Anna 's turn followed , and the opposite happened . |
| 15 | Whereas conventional economic theory predicted that a change to flexible exchange rates would eliminate financial crises and allow markets to ease and soften adjustment to change , the opposite happened . |
| 16 | ‘ But the opposite happened . |
| 17 | Quite the opposite happened with the ‘ sea cucumber ’ : slimy , chewy , sweaty black and fed to us in quantities — then redefined as ‘ sea slug ’ . |
| 18 | In fact the opposite happened . |
| 19 | But the opposite happened in slack periods . |
| 20 | Instead , the opposite happened . |
| 21 | The massacre happened shortly before 9am , when the workmen were getting out of their red van . |
| 22 | the fight happened he got out |
| 23 | The slaughter happened as up to 50,000 ANC supporters crossed the South African border for a rally at a stadium in the Ciskei capital of Bisho . |
| 24 | Well — something of the kind happened to Walter , after the initial interest . ’ |
| 25 | The tragedy happened during a lunch break in a clay pigeon shoot at Horton-cum-Studley , Oxon . |
| 26 | The tragedy happened as 100 Hibernian fans travelled south from Edinburgh for their team 's UEFA Cup match against Anderlecht in Belgium . |
| 27 | The tragedy happened when he slipped on wet grass at the home of 75year-old retired Brigadier Tim Pierson in Fownhope , near Hereford . |
| 28 | The tragedy happened at a transport depot in the town . |
| 29 | The tragedy happened when Stewart Davis was being shown how to cross the road safely near his home at Yate , near Bristol . |
| 30 | He was ‘ moderately intoxicated ’ when the tragedy happened on February 25 last year . |