Example sentences of "thing that happen in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see things like senile dementia as being a direct result of restricted breathing over very many years — in 20 , 30 or 40 years you can do to yourself the same sort of thing that happens in an operating theatre if oxygen is withdrawn . ’ |
| 2 | They spent so much time talking about gay things that they did n't actually have much time to do many gay things — which is why I think the really crucial thing that happened in the seventies was not the liberation of a particular sexuality but actually the liberation of a particular set of relationships through which people could enjoy sex , or not have sex , as the case may be . |
| 3 | But it 's a strange kind of thing that happened in this part of the country , the kind of story you get in Suffolk and Norfolk . |
| 4 | But I can remember one thing that happened in in that respect was that the superintendent came down to a meeting or he wanted to see us after nationalization . |
| 5 | Well undoubtedly the first thing that happened in St Aldate 's , the most important thing , was after the battle of Edgefield , when the King rode in in state erm in victory he said , though the fact that the battle was indecisive , and it was described by a very royalist writer Anthony Wood , you may have heard of , is a university antiquarian erm very much on the university and royalist side . |