Example sentences of "[vb past] it happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were one of several people who were probably going to be let go on my recommendation as part of a rationalisation programme , but the manner in which I caused it to happen … |
| 2 | Then came It Happened in Capri , and after that , nothing . |
| 3 | There was no ram-raiding until after the news showed it happening in America . |
| 4 | They achieved this splendidly in the Scottish Cup semi-final and since Hearts allowed it to happen to them we had a memorably ghastly match . |
| 5 | Furthermore , while in former times the responsible authorities strove their hardest to mitigate poverty , of circumstance and opportunity , by driving hard for high levels of education provision , low expectation still depressed educational achievement , and work-related training in industry continued to be low-grade — where employers allowed it to happen at all . |
| 6 | For it suggests that they may be penalised in future for environmental damage which was legal at the time they allowed it to happen . |
| 7 | I I have a I have a nasty suspicion that we could go on all day like this if if I allowed it to happen . |
| 8 | If we allowed it to happen once then all the people who read your paper would think they could do it as well . ’ |
| 9 | Sendei watched it happen . |
| 10 | This is a typical conspiracy theory , which adduces the fact that something did happen as evidence that someone meant it to happen . |
| 11 | I never meant it to happen , and I never meant to hurt you , Helen , honestly I did n't but it just kind of happened to me , and I thought I had to tell you , because I did n't want to … to cheat you and so on and I 'm really very fond of you , and I 'm sorry . |
| 12 | The baby saw it happening but could do nothing to stop it , its pudgy fingers would not close tightly enough to grasp the string … . |
| 13 | I certainly never pictured it as being the same operation acting on different pieces until I actually saw it happening on the cube . |
| 14 | She saw it happening all around her . |
| 15 | I saw it happening around me . |
| 16 | Mr Lessingham saw it happen . |
| 17 | I saw it happen with Jaco Pastorius — I know what it was like the first time I heard him . |
| 18 | I saw it happen once to a dear old woman who went around a group of people , gently offering her book , and everyone signed except one . |
| 19 | It was born on a Sunday afternoon and Carrie and Albert and Nick saw it happen . |
| 20 | I saw it happen , and I could n't do a thing to help them . |
| 21 | As a scientist I can not believe it — but I saw it happen with my own eyes . |
| 22 | For some reason he did n't get the kicks , but he certainly saw it happen . ’ |
| 23 | But twenty nomes , peering out from the undergrowth , saw it happen . |
| 24 | ‘ I saw it happen . |
| 25 | ‘ You know that Terry saw it happen ? ’ |
| 26 | And somebody was following , a colleague was following , saw it happen , stopped and helped him sort of do what you 've got to do to get the man 's address and this sort of thing , make sure the car was alright , and took him into the office . |
| 27 | Nobody saw it happen , but I think most likely he was fighting and got caught up on something . |
| 28 | If you do know it , then , should you admit it , because if we 've seen it happen , we 'll report it as fact , because we saw it happen . |
| 29 | An American air crew saw it happen as they prepared to take off . |
| 30 | Chopra felt it happen . |