Example sentences of "it actually happened " in BNC.
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| 1 | His early involvement in this so-called jazz-poetry — which achieved such popularity in the sixties — shows that Leonard , not for the first time , and certainly not the last , was ‘ where it was all happening ’ before it actually happened . |
| 2 | A somewhat different case is García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude which recounts the history of the small town of Macondo , not so much as it actually happened , but as its inhabitants experienced and interpreted it and as it was transmitted by popular oral tradition . |
| 3 | In spite of all the worrying about it the next stage with Edward still took Sally by surprise when it actually happened . |
| 4 | Its universality as far as human life is concerned depends on when it actually happened , and we can do no more than guess at the date . |
| 5 | There are many viable theories of how the Earth came to acquire its Moon , reflecting the considerable uncertainty as to how it actually happened . |
| 6 | One RUC officer said : ‘ If you wrote that into a play or novel , people would n't believe it , but it actually happened . |
| 7 | And they say yes we will , our business teach teacher told us about that you see because it 's been happening a lot , cos Marks and Spencers do n't ask for a receipt you see , it actually happened , they used to take things from upstairs , bring them downstairs and said they bought it and got the money for it . |