Example sentences of "[noun] happened [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This little episode happened in a school whose approach to learning was liberal in the extreme . |
| 2 | The words happened to be the first I could enunciate . |
| 3 | And the words happened to be so very true … |
| 4 | There were several reasons why disputes happened on Fazisi that were not shared with other yachts in the fleet . |
| 5 | Is that what it is– ’ Or if I was to see the doctor and my girlfriend happened to be seeing the doctor as well , this was just an excuse , according to them , for us to be together . |
| 6 | The boaters happened to be Russell Train , who ran the Federal Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) in Washington , just 50 km to the west , and Senator Charles Mac Mathias of the state of Maryland , which shares with Virginia the bay 's 13 000 km of shoreline . |
| 7 | The latest theft happened at a Shell garage in Marlborough Road at Swindon . |
| 8 | Numerous such accidents happened whilst igniting , for if the slow fuze happened to be not so slow , or the miner inadvertently touched the straw with his candle , then he might have but a few impossible seconds to make good his escape . |
| 9 | He 'd then possibly forgotten these dreams or fantasies and then when the stimulus of feeling something on the back of his neck happened to him whilst asleep , suddenly the fantasy came back , all as a piece as it were , and it occurred to me that your dream about driving off viaducts might be caused by being asleep , having one of these falling experiences , then relating it to previous thoughts you 'd had , you know on the freeway or something , oh my God , how awful it would be if I , if I drove off that bend below , do you know what I mean ? |
| 10 | The church had been chosen simply because its priest happened to be a friend of Eliot 's solicitor , who was also " best man " . |
| 11 | Overwhelmingly , improvements in roads and waterways happened in response to existing economic pressures and prospects . |
| 12 | Fortunately the cut happened at night and power was restored before any noticeable pollution took place . |
| 13 | The tragedy happened at a transport depot in the town . |
| 14 | He was ‘ moderately intoxicated ’ when the tragedy happened on February 25 last year . |
| 15 | The tragedy happened during a lunch break in a clay pigeon shoot at Horton-cum-Studley , Oxon . |
| 16 | Not surprisingly , their most fanatical fan happened to be Steven Morrissey . |
| 17 | Secondly , the pooling system for higher education expenditure amongst local authorities was one which protected those authorities in which the newly-designated polytechnics happened to be situated . |
| 18 | But the first break happened after only 8km and the second after nearly 612km . |
| 19 | The shooting happened in the busy car park of a DIY store just after midday . |
| 20 | The shooting happened in a quiet residential road at Pershore in Worcestershire shortly before midnight . |
| 21 | The double shooting happened in a public car park beside a Texas superstore in Cheltenham town centre in Gloucestershire in June . |
| 22 | The shooting happened in what is usually a quiet section of the French Quarter on a street lined with historic buildings serving as apartments , hotels and restaurants . |
| 23 | Especially if the wheel happened to be hers . |
| 24 | Hoomey , in the next desk , was yawning , having sat up late to watch the horror film , and had a comic open on his desk which he was reading whenever his eyes happened to be open . |
| 25 | The ringing in his ears happened to be a bare half tone below the key in which he hummed music to himself . |
| 26 | What in effect happened after 1880 was that the biological approaches of those such as Darwin and Spencer were transformed by Fabians and New Liberals . |
| 27 | The freedom of the Secretary of State to depart from the recommendations of the National Curriculum Council ( to which proposals on attainment targets and programmes of study must be referred ) , as in effect happened in the case of the history curriculum , stands in marked contrast to the restrictions binding teachers under the National Curriculum . |
| 28 | About 85pc of SIDs happened to babies aged less than six months , of which 60pc were between one month and four months . |
| 29 | About 85% of SIDs happened to babies aged less than six months , of which 60% were between one and four months . |
| 30 | The marble happened to be perfect . |