Example sentences of "this happened [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | All of this happened during the past ten years . |
2 | This happened on the road between Um Al-Farajh and Acre , near the Al-Insherah orchard opposite Nahariya . |
3 | This happened on a number of occasions in the nineteenth century . |
4 | This happened on several occasions , with the kisses and hugs becoming longer and more passionate as time went on . |
5 | This happened on the Sunday in question , and as I watched him climb the stairs , dragging himself up by the banister , I saw that he was sweating heavily . |
6 | This happened on both my Brother machines , the 950i and the 836 , which sit at right angles to one another in the same room . |
7 | This happened on the film set of The Last Days of Dolwyn — Burton 's celluloid debut in a part written especially for him . |
8 | The BR stated that 200 lives were lost thrown out from the carriage door on the ‘ Inter City ’ trains ; this happened on the curve on the track , at this point the speed was 100 mph ( suicide ) . |
9 | Did I hear the hon. Gentleman say that this happened on Thursday when I was in the Chair ? |
10 | This happened at the time when the long bow was finally succeeded by the musket and pike . |
11 | This happened at a time when the ice had , so to speak , sucked up much of the sea . |
12 | This happened at a turning-point in Caribbean affairs , for in 1670 the Spanish accepted the inevitable and by the Treaty of Madrid acknowledged the English colonies in the West Indies as legitimate settlements , though the logging settlements on the central American mainland were left in an ill-defined position . |
13 | This happened at Stamford , also , though the buildings put up in the market place there formed irregular blocks . |
14 | This happened at the same time as parishes were being formed , and it seems to have resulted in the extinction of many churches , not only as private property but also as working churches . |
15 | Well er to me it does n't quite ring true , it 's always been the boys ' ploughing match and it always will be as far as I 'm concerned but I think this happened at the time post war I ca n't say exactly which year , when the date was changed from easter time to August . |
16 | However this happened at the end of a fraught week . |
17 | This happened for John Aldis of Holy Trinity , Leicester . |
18 | I 'm sorry that this happened for you . |
19 | ‘ I 'm sorry this happened for you . ’ |
20 | This happened with no less than eight . |
21 | This happened with the Czech [ regional ] government . |
22 | Support workers rarely left because they found other preferred employment or because they disliked the work ( this happened with only three of the workers in Ipswich and only four in Newham ) . |
23 | This happened with fatal consequences in 1953 when the Lee Wick wall collapsed sending water shooting over the marshes to Jaywick . |
24 | This happened with early reports of resistance to chloroquine , quinine , and mefloquine , and it now seems to be happening with halofantrine ( May 15 , p 1282 , and the above letter ) . |
25 | In his autobiography , he tries to see how this happened to ‘ the whole man ’ — to the man who had been haunted since youth by a sense of joy ’ , to the man whose love of Autumn , of Northernness , even of his own mother , was always , as he came to feel , a longing for one without whom our hearts will find no rest . |
26 | This happened to many punters who shorted bank stocks last year just as the Federal Reserve eased interest rates and so triggered a sharp rally in bank share prices . |
27 | This happened to be the very day that her daddy , who had sold his old van , was going to bring home his new van from Stowbridge . |
28 | This happened to such an extent that the Census Commissioners mentioned it in their returns . |
29 | This happened to our Corporal Jane , who arrived back in camp after a brief visit to one of the neighbouring air fields to find that she had been posted to the Met Office at Group Headquarters , Huntingdon , and the corporal there , Rosemary Hilton , had received a reciprocal posting to Bourn . |
30 | I wondered if this happened to many other smokers . |