Example sentences of "[noun sg] it happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was a pity it happened to her , the prettiest in the village . |
| 2 | I go up to the place it happened : to remember the way it was , actually . " |
| 3 | I remember we saw in the other shop It happened again . |
| 4 | In one group it happened that every week the same woman would say , ‘ I ca n't read that , it makes me too nervous . |
| 5 | Then one day it happened — the three of us were dispatched to Chard , in Somerset , understanding very little of what was happening to us . |
| 6 | The day it happened to me |
| 7 | ‘ We 'd gone down to the Net , the day it happened . |
| 8 | The day it happened the day you got this |
| 9 | Which would seem to suggest that old-fashioned good singing is good , no matter what register it happens to be in . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Seemingly , the night it happened , your brother Josh bought a bottle of scotch and got Eb squiffy . |
| 13 | It begins : ’ The night it happened . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | Well yesterday because of the long queue it happened that way . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I mean she had plenty of warning it happening to her |
| 19 | I suppose that 's what every candidate thinks but in my case it happens to be true . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This does not have to be the value paired with the summary value for X , although in this instance it happens also to be the value for the other South East . |
| 22 | Of course it happens , it happens within ten minutes of the start of the sales interview . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , it 's a good thing it happened at home and not at the racecourse . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm sure this is the way it happens for everyone and we definitely do n't let it get to our heads . |
| 25 | You know , and if it is just the way it happens , particularly when you get a er , an envelope with says here you are , have free drinks , you know that some people , they do n't drink at all so they can go to somebody else and say here you are . |
| 26 | The answer is , of course , that that 's not the way it happens . |
| 27 | Van Der Meulen realised that change had to come but he was surely saddened by the way it happened . |
| 28 | Mr Brodie said : ‘ We are not interested in the money because , however much it was , it could not compensate for losing Emma and the way it happened . |
| 29 | It was true ; that was just the way it happened . |
| 30 | ‘ My answer would have been different if Barry had upped and left to another club , but not the way it happened . ’ |