Example sentences of "[adv] happened [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not the usual kind of student 's flat , ’ muttered the Marshal , surprised to find his feet walking on fitted carpet , a thing that only happened to him in the lobbies of hotels he was checking on . |
| 2 | Death was something that only happened to other people — except there was the ragged hole that the shadow-voices had opened up in her and Zulei was tearing at it and there was death behind . |
| 3 | No , that only happened in films . |
| 4 | That only happened in fairy-tales . |
| 5 | When you have a very small , very select , very ladylike grammar school , joined with two rough and ready secondary moderns what basically happened in my view is that when they joined together the grammar school staff , or most of them , could n't cope with the rough and ready aspect the school they came to have . |
| 6 | Then as his hand released her wrist and slid round against her back , drawing her even closer so that the warmth of him burned through her , something very strange suddenly happened inside her . |
| 7 | erm and as you 'll be able to see from my introduction make do and mend was n't something that suddenly happened in nineteen thirty nine there were sections of society in which make do and mend was a permanent and not not particularly erm welcome fact of life . |
| 8 | Come to think of it , not much happened to Anna from the time Simon left us till she died — fifteen years or nearly . |
| 9 | One reason is that nothing very much happened between October 1963 and October 1964 in terms of high policy . |
| 10 | Nothing apparently happened for two months after the Institute 's delegation . |
| 11 | It was only noticed yesterday , although the explosion apparently happened on Saturday afternoon . |
| 12 | This apparently happened to Jim last year . |
| 13 | ‘ What exactly happened on the Jonquil that evening ? ’ |
| 14 | So what exactly happened to young Sarah , who was only 10 or 11 years old at the time ? |
| 15 | Wait till you hear what fucking happened to us on Sunday , |
| 16 | The bombardier beetle 's ancestors simply pressed into different service chemicals that already happened to be around . |
| 17 | It was surely part of her duty to find out what finally happened to the seductive female spread out on the front cover . |
| 18 | What just happened between us could have gone much further , but it did n't because I chose not to let it . |
| 19 | Yes , just happened at the wrong time . |
| 20 | Both men had leapt to their feet and had been restrained from using violence by the mates of the shop steward , who just happened to be on hand . |
| 21 | One of the two witnesses , who also just happened to be the convener , Fred Clasper , claimed that a second warning note was unjustified as the foreman had been knocked down unintentionally . |
| 22 | BBS seriously considered firing Hopper ; the pressure of moving a production team of twenty-three people from state to state , writing the script on the run and persuading innocent citizens of the United States of America who just happened to be passing at the time to appear in the movie , was a heavy burden for all . |
| 23 | Maybe it was n't even him that took my bag — maybe it was one of those American tourists or someone I did n't even see , and Dayglo here — Vern — just happened to be running along the wharf . |
| 24 | They just put me up for it and I just happened to be about at the time . |
| 25 | ‘ I just happened to be around some great players and be part of a great team ’ , he said with typical modesty . |
| 26 | To get the tickets you had to sign up for a complete tour and hospitality package , available through Travelforce , a travel agency in Durban — of which the then President of the Natal Rugby Union , and member of the Executive of the ( former ) SARB , just happened to be a director . |
| 27 | This continent seems to have been created by Augustus Le Plongeon for his 1896 novel Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphynx , which he claimed was based on original Mayan writings — which writings , of course , just happened to be unavailable to other scholars . |
| 28 | Anything could have sparked the riots , it just happened to be the injustice of Rodney King 's trial that triggered it this time . |
| 29 | She was going through a traumatic divorce at the time and it was obvious she needed someone to talk to and I just happened to be around . |
| 30 | Within Christianity bread and wine are sacramental not because they just happened to be on the table for a Jewish meal but because they were signs of the covenant . |