Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The latest theft happened at a Shell garage in Marlborough Road at Swindon . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | The church had been chosen simply because its priest happened to be a friend of Eliot 's solicitor , who was also " best man " . |
| 7 | Fortunately the cut happened at night and power was restored before any noticeable pollution took place . |
| 8 | The tragedy happened at a transport depot in the town . |
| 9 | He was ‘ moderately intoxicated ’ when the tragedy happened on February 25 last year . |
| 10 | The tragedy happened during a lunch break in a clay pigeon shoot at Horton-cum-Studley , Oxon . |
| 11 | Not surprisingly , their most fanatical fan happened to be Steven Morrissey . |
| 12 | But the first break happened after only 8km and the second after nearly 612km . |
| 13 | The shooting happened in the busy car park of a DIY store just after midday . |
| 14 | The shooting happened in a quiet residential road at Pershore in Worcestershire shortly before midnight . |
| 15 | The double shooting happened in a public car park beside a Texas superstore in Cheltenham town centre in Gloucestershire in June . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Especially if the wheel happened to be hers . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The marble happened to be perfect . |
| 21 | Their own breakthrough happened in 1987 , with the tremendous success of their ‘ Blood Group ’ tape and Tsoy 's appearances in two cult youth movies Assa , and Rashid Nugmanov 's The Needle . |
| 22 | The Tranent folk had had a notion ( but look whit happened to them ) — say to the government , ‘ You can not trust us if ever you make us fight . ’ |
| 23 | ( op. at. : 6 ) Art sessions took place in the Art Room itself at the far end of the school , and Drama work happened in the hall . |
| 24 | The crash happened on Jura island on Saturday . |
| 25 | The crash happened on the west bound carriageway of the A-Forty near Witney in Oxfordshire . |
| 26 | The crash happened on the A-Forty at Wheatley between Oxford and Thame where a contra-flow system is in place because of roadworks . |
| 27 | The crash happened on March 14 when the helicopter went down while transporting 15 men from Shell 's Cormorant Alpha platform to an accommodation barge . |
| 28 | The crash happened on an acute bend at Hallikeld Corner on the A684 road to Osmotherley . |
| 29 | The court heard that the crash happened at Pentwyn , Cardiff , after the three celebrated Coombes ' first job . |
| 30 | The crash happened at Hurn airport , near Bournemouth , Dorset . |