Example sentences of "it happened [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example at Edgehill , a GIST pack for discussion of sex roles — Gender in Our Lives — was used in the personal and social education lessons , with teachers talking honestly and openly about their personal experience ; as it happened they found themselves in the middle of a discussion about fathers being present at childbirth , and the children were obviously fascinated by this new view of their teachers as emotional beings . [ … ] |
| 2 | As it hap as it happened they had to do two . |
| 3 | And he said to me , he 'd marked my , my sum and , and as it happened they was right , all of them . |
| 4 | ‘ After it happened we found he was well liked . ’ |
| 5 | The force spokeswoman said : ‘ How it happened we do n't know at this stage . |
| 6 | Exactly how it happened we still do not known for sure but you can find examples of the kind of organisms it produced in almost any patch of fresh water . |
| 7 | How it happened we do n't know but the flight-recorder said it only took a couple of minutes and the navigator confirmed this . |
| 8 | Johnson even complained a little — or so Boswell suggests — that he was not seeing enough of Boswell : ‘ He asked me today , how it happened we were so little together . ’ |
| 9 | Domestic radio ( in contrast to the World Service ) barely touched on the run up to the cancellation of Yeltsin 's trip to Japan , so when it happened we did n't know why , we did n't know how important it was . |
| 10 | The father went on : ‘ I believe she said he had stopped breathing for a couple of seconds , and if we had n't had him at the hospital when it happened we would have more than likely lost him . ’ |
| 11 | She had a lump in her throat and an enormous yearning to say something beautiful to her father , something that could not be expressed by words , and so without quite knowing how it happened she suddenly turned her head and with a smile tossed out her arm in the air , easily , flowing , as if to see each other many more times . |
| 12 | I remembered what you 'd said about settling down , and as it happened I met a very nice young man from Berlin , a train driver . |
| 13 | COLBERT : I was sitting next to Bob Mcknight , and five seconds before it happened I said to Bob , the only person who can fuck this up is Tom Carroll . |
| 14 | The next time it happened I reversed the procedure . |
| 15 | As it happened I was on night duty . |
| 16 | As it happened I did n't like ice in whisky and this pleased Alec . |
| 17 | Before it happened I had reached a point where at last I was earning enough money to make things a little bit easier , and then suddenly I found myself having to start all over again with wrecked finances , a new relationship and living in digs . |
| 18 | QUITE HOW it happened I 'm still not sure , but about a year ago I was shamelessly conned into driving Christie Hennessy to Cork in a rented car . |
| 19 | The first time it happened I immediately thought of meningitis , and rushed her to the doctor 's . |
| 20 | I did n't even know how to ride a bicycle , though as it happened I was soon forced to learn . |
| 21 | As it happened I too found it in a list of drives the day after answering the letter . |
| 22 | As it happened I had heard a very similar point being put to a group of Belfast managers from top insurance companies a few days previously . |
| 23 | I was seven and I was I went to a neighbour 's house and as it happened I was looking through the blooming window when the funeral went past so I was no better off you know . |
| 24 | As it happened I was the first to reach the meeting place , and soon , four others turned up . |
| 25 | As it happened I did not own a bike , nor did I possess the corduroy shorts , commando rucksack , chunky woollen socks and thick , dubbined boots which were the uniform of the dedicated rambler . |
| 26 | Quite how it happened he was not sure , but at some point he had slipped and fallen into the canal . |
| 27 | As it happened he was well able to look after himself in such matters . |
| 28 | One did not have to attend school meals with the boys over the week-end if one was off duty ; and the only master who might have noticed I had been away was Méli himself , but as it happened he 'd been in Athens . |
| 29 | One of the factors that led me to sign up with the DIA was the idea that I might be able to do something for my friend Jerry Levin , who had been taken hostage in Beirut by Hezbollah , but as it happened he was released before I got out there . |
| 30 | Last time it happened he actually asked me to marry him ! |