Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] happened " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spencer just happened to have in his bottom drawer , as it were , a spare Centaurus engine . |
| 2 | The auto industry just happened to be a convenient sector in which to show his determination to change ( Doner , 1987 ; Oman , 1989 : pp. 164–166 ) . |
| 3 | I began to feel I was really homing in on the answer : involuntary spasms had sent those lifeless appendages hopping about the turret like bingo balls on a current of air … until their trajectories just happened to coincide with not-wall , not-floor , not-ceiling ( which I quickly worked out was better than a one in three shot every hop ) . |
| 4 | If Dorothy gave a party , and it was only a small party , it was an effort , and she appeared to be tired of it all , to have forgotten how , in the sixties and early seventies , parties just happened . |
| 5 | Sue just happened to mention that she had been to an orphanage in Brasov and Christine realised it was the same one that Christine Morey had written about . |
| 6 | ‘ Do You Really Want To Hurt Me ’ was total '80s pop , all glamour , gold , harmony and , as they used to say in them days , like punk never happened . |
| 7 | The orderly American " dating " we saw in films or heard about in pop songs never happened in my adolescence . |
| 8 | The growth rate is modest , because Matisse was fully appreciated in the Seventies and the massive revaluations that were widely applied in the Eighties had in his case already happened . |
| 9 | But if , by sheer coincidence , all the molecules just happened to move in the same direction at the same moment , the hand would move . |
| 10 | Oh , by the way , ’ Luke said , locking the door behind them , ‘ Bob Tilling in Accounts just happened to mention the other day that you had settled an invoice for a piece we made for a client in Sherwood Forest . ’ |
| 11 | His pet tortoise just happened to choose the ‘ Matter Does n't Matter ’ chamber as a suitable spot for hibernation . |
| 12 | The crash also happened just as NMW was expanding into other markets . |
| 13 | You 'd think there 'd be fear that the ploughman would suffer damage among the horse 's hoofs , but such was the bond between them that nothing of the kind ever happened . ’ |
| 14 | Beccaria just happened to think it was . |
| 15 | I wanted to ‘ do ’ someone I knew a little , but when I approached my number one seed , he served me up Roy as a better choice ( Roy just happened to be on holiday so not able to comment ) . |
| 16 | I 've actually seen them only once — Lawrence and I wandered in there one morning– the torch beam just happened to fall on a clutch of them sitting tight on the wall , right by my ear . |
| 17 | Michael had had a farm across the border , a lonely ruin near a place called Hackballs Cross , where it was said that men with guns had been known to train , and where certainly only the barest minimum of farming ever happened , enough to get the EC grants and little more . |
| 18 | As far as I 'm concerned I 'd like to forget that the last couple of weeks ever happened . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Before the band ever happened I was driving around Hammersmith roundabout and I saw ‘ Nude picture of Patsy Kensit ! ’ on a sign , and I remember being slightly jealous , thinking . |
| 20 | Yet a good deal of this diversification probably happened in the last 70 million years , during the Tertiary . |
| 21 | Five years later happened what he always dreaded . |
| 22 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 23 | But this jealousy actually happened because it was a question of making a decision without actually thinking through the consequences of it . |
| 24 | It was only noticed yesterday , although the explosion apparently happened on Saturday afternoon . |
| 25 | But back then … well , I thought things just happened — you know the saying , Mei fa tzu , it 's fate . |
| 26 | He said he 'd put them at a friend 's house for safe keeping , and the friend just happened to have gone away on holiday . |
| 27 | Y'know , when all the Batty stuff finally happened I thought to myself that at least some other people might see that he is a good player after all ( and prove me right ) . |
| 28 | Remember Ma Christie , our Norwegian Pathfinder , who wondered at how his crew just happened to appear as though from some mystique of chance ; how Middleton said in effect " my crew is the best in the Command … leave them be or I return to the Main Force " . |
| 29 | I wonder why things always happened on a Monday , but it seemed to be the case . |
| 30 | ‘ Things always happened around Julie and Elizabeth , ’ he says . |