Example sentences of "it [adv] [adv] [vb past] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man could not become completely impoverished , but it only rarely happened that anyone grew rich . ’ |
| 2 | It only afterwards transpired that the seedy man was not a reporter but his tutor , with whom he was not otherwise acquainted . ’ |
| 3 | It just so happened that in Axelrod 's original tournament about half the entries were nice . |
| 4 | It just so happened that Mandy turned up at the afternoon surgery . |
| 5 | ‘ It just so happened that the Rachel killing was at that time . ’ |
| 6 | They seldom leave their home state of California : it just so happened that both were attending an international conference in Rome . |
| 7 | Although President Nixon may have come to the White House committed to ending the war in Vietnam , it just so happened that his way of ending it was to escalate it . |
| 8 | Which in itself was no lie , but it just so happened that she 'd never been allowed to join the other children in such frivolous pastimes , she reflected with a touch of resentment . |
| 9 | It just so happened that he , you know , he was alright , and the car was a right-off . |
| 10 | It just so happened that Geoff Mitchell , the PE master at Eaglescliffe , coached the decathlon at Middlesbrough and Cleveland Harriers . |
| 11 | It hardly ever happened that someone said something she identified with . |