Example sentences of "[noun] it happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this is but the reverse side of the Janus face of justice , for in their eyes it happens more often that criminals are released or are not put in prison for long enough . |
| 2 | After eighteen months it happened as I had foretold . |
| 3 | Right hon. and hon. Members are failing to remember in how many criminal trials it happens , often necessarily , that allegations are made by the prosecution or defence which are damaging to persons who are not immediately before the court . |
| 4 | ‘ It was a pity it happened to her , the prettiest in the village . |
| 5 | Although it is the coroner 's court 's function simply to find the cause of death , under what circumstances it happened and who , if anybody , is to be charged and with what , many members of the public plus the national papers were speaking as if Drew had already been indicted . |
| 6 | I go up to the place it happened : to remember the way it was , actually . " |
| 7 | I remember we saw in the other shop It happened again . |
| 8 | In one group it happened that every week the same woman would say , ‘ I ca n't read that , it makes me too nervous . |
| 9 | Only 1 man in 5 had planned the occasion , for 17% it was a one-night stand , for 13% it happened at a party , while 11% say they were drunk at the time . |
| 10 | As Joe bowed his head and laughed , Mick went on , ‘ And every Sunday night for years and years it happened , because every Sunday night I 'd go down to hell . |
| 11 | Then one day it happened — the three of us were dispatched to Chard , in Somerset , understanding very little of what was happening to us . |
| 12 | The day it happened to me |
| 13 | ‘ We 'd gone down to the Net , the day it happened . |
| 14 | The day it happened the day you got this |
| 15 | Which would seem to suggest that old-fashioned good singing is good , no matter what register it happens to be in . |
| 16 | He had an endearing habit at 10 o'clock of calling on each facet of his customers , starting with the lowest rank of airman , to " piss off " ; and worked through the ranks until he got to Kings ( and on this occasion it happened to be King Peter of Yugoslavia ) . |
| 17 | Now obviously this can happen a bit , but I do n't think , on the whole it happens very much , at least certainly not in a way that matters erm I do n't think it does matter if people change things a little bit , because erm but on the whole people are doing things in the way that they 're doing them erm because they 've got accustomed to doing them that way and that 's the way that they 've planned it , and that 's the way that it comes out as a result of all of those pressures that there are on them . |
| 18 | Seemingly , the night it happened , your brother Josh bought a bottle of scotch and got Eb squiffy . |
| 19 | It begins : ’ The night it happened . |
| 20 | And so well I did n't like what he was doing but at any rate it happened on Sunday morning er , somebody read the lesson and it was Saint , Saint John and there were chapters and of course it was skipping about the verses all over the place , you just got fed up with verses . |
| 21 | Er , when you 've finished with it , all I want is the token off the corner of the page it happens to be on the reverse side |
| 22 | Well yesterday because of the long queue it happened that way . |
| 23 | I repeat that what is important is how a school deploys its teaching staff , not the number of people it happens to have on its books . |
| 24 | ‘ Pray to God it happens away from the village . ’ |
| 25 | I just thank God it happened . ’ |
| 26 | And in a sense it happens to be English language and English literature that I teach , but I do n't really think I 'm teaching that , what I 'm doing is helping people to think , hopefully , and have ideas and excite them about ideas and think about themselves and the way they live . |
| 27 | In the case of 44% , it only happened once ; for 29% it happened more than once with the same person ; for 19% there were three or more different people on separate occasions . |
| 28 | I mean she had plenty of warning it happening to her |
| 29 | I suppose that 's what every candidate thinks but in my case it happens to be true . |
| 30 | We evaluate unc Note that here , since the second row and first column of the product are necessarily orthogonal , m is triangular ; also in this case it happens that m-1 = m . |