Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] happened " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course nothing happened . |
| 2 | People could hardly carry sombre clothes with them , just in case someone happened to die … |
| 3 | Can anyone help with any information about a nasty scrape to my car which happened sometime during the day at Rutherford . |
| 4 | I had recorded my favourite radio serial one evening , along with twenty minutes of a programme which happened to follow it . |
| 5 | That is probably the worst one day figure which happened , as I say , combination of war and the snow , when the shops were pretty well closed off , and yes we certainly saw figures that , on a day for day basis to last year , they were seventy five per cent down , but cumulative I mean the position 's much better than that erm nowhere near that sort of figure , and erm we are very confident that the summer market for overseas holidays will recover steadily and we 'd be very surprised if , by the end of September , we 're more than five or six per cent down on summer holiday bookings compared to last year , and we 're confident enough to have brought back our campaigns and our advertising starts this week , and we 've even been confident enough to announce to our staff that their annual salary review will take place on the first of April as scheduled . |
| 6 | So we entered a genteel teashoppe/cafe which happened to be handy and ordered coffee , as so often before . |
| 7 | The following interesting account of a waterspout which happened about the middle of the 18th century is copied from Mr. Hutchinson . |
| 8 | A priest who happened to be visiting my mother volunteered to stay on one of these occasions , but the screams drove him out . |
| 9 | And that happened at 23 with an actress who happened to take me under her wing , so to speak . |
| 10 | In an aunt 's loft he happened to chance across what he regards as his first hoard : a collection of dust-covered National Geographic magazines . |
| 11 | Unable to see beyond the short-term gain he went from whim to whim , reacting without thought to whatever gossip he happened to have heard last . |
| 12 | It was not his fault what happened . ’ |
| 13 | When I do prison trips , I always have on my mind what happened . |
| 14 | Flushed and triumphant after this orgy of extravagance , they left the store at last , keeping an eye on the time because Mabel must n't be late with the boys ' tea whatever happened and then they had a long , annoying wait at the bus-stop . |
| 15 | Can you can you tell me or have you got a pic , where does the picture usually go ? does it go right at the top or do you usually have a bit of headline what happened in that Mirror one there ? |
| 16 | More than fifty people were involved in the fight which happened earlier this month at the King Billy public house in Northampton . |
| 17 | Grunte , he opined , was ‘ a pain in the bum ’ , although he had been quite helpful over the matter of the new motorway route which happened to pass through his garden or , if not his garden , damn close . |
| 18 | This motion was triggered by a particular case which happened within the Birmingham region on the first of January nineteen ninety three which should have been a start of the European Market the people 's Europe . |
| 19 | Two fire crews from Bury attended the crash which happened in a torrential downpour . |
| 20 | Police have appealed to witnesses to the crash which happened at about 2.45pm on Saturday . |
| 21 | Patel , who was driving friends home after drinks at a pub , fled the crash which happened on November 30 last year . |
| 22 | The victim , aged 44 , is still recovering from her ordeal which happened outside Barclays Bank in Kingsway , Dovercourt , on February 22 . |
| 23 | Before being taken to the platform , he was introduced to those members of the Committee who happened to be milling around the entrance . |
| 24 | From time to time , almost absent-mindedly , he reached into his pocket and produced a sweet , which he gave to any small boy who happened to be near . |
| 25 | ‘ It was a pity it happened to her , the prettiest in the village . |
| 26 | Ad what happened then when somebody died did you hear |
| 27 | Roger recounted with delight what happened when he was interviewed by Mr Baker . |
| 28 | Many of them , like the stores empire assembled by Mr Robert Campeau ( owner of Bloomingdale 's and Bon Marché ) , Resorts International , a casino operator , and Paramount Petroleum would probably have gone into bankruptcy whatever happened . |
| 29 | This did not mean she was prepared to throw herself headlong into a relationship with the first half-decent male who happened by . |
| 30 | She spent more and more time off her eggs , parading about the yard , cackling as if demented and taking sudden rushes in whatever direction she happened to be facing when each fit of frenzy overcame her . |