Example sentences of "[vb past] happen [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What , what 'd happened is that there 's a concrete span right at the back , and they 've the inner course off it , but the external bit built off the door frame . |
| 2 | What did happen was that the nursery staff felt themselves to be part of a wider childcare system and took advantage of formal and informal links . |
| 3 | In other words what had happened is that legal doctrine had drawn upon conflicting conceptions of the company to legitimate limited liability and to endorse the power conferred upon directors to manage the company . |
| 4 | Being quite intuitive , I did notice there was a funny tension between Ken Pitt and David and I thought that probably what had happened was that David had not been satisfied performing ‘ When I Live My Dream ’ with the old backing tracks , as he had been working with Tony Visconti and had all these new tunes and productions and ways of doing things in his head . |
| 5 | The only creature who could explain what had happened was Devon Loch , and he was not in a position to give interviews . |
| 6 | What had happened was that O had been at home , not sleeping , thinking about Boy at six in the morning , and he had called up and said , ‘ Are you watching TV , ’ to which Boy had replied , as the man had heard , ‘ Yes , ’ and then O had told Boy to turn over to the boxing ; he 'd just said , ‘ Get up and change to the third channel . |
| 7 | What had happened was that Stirling 's static line had snagged on the tail section as he exited from the door , and two panels were ripped from the parachute , causing him to descend too rapidly . |
| 8 | Relating what had happened was calming him . |
| 9 | What had happened was that Mark James , playing with Nicklaus , had missed the green , shanked his chip right across the green , and then taken a train ride to get the putt for a four . |
| 10 | What had happened was no fault of hers , and she set herself to live with it . |
| 11 | For what had happened was not the worst , you realized that . |
| 12 | What had happened was that the passage of electrical current created huge magnetic forces which constricted the tube . |
| 13 | What had happened was that the wall had been built much later and from a higher ground level . |
| 14 | What had happened was what always seemed to happen when there was trouble underground . |
| 15 | What had happened was an extraordinary growth of world trade which was controlled by merchants and financiers who lived and worked in London . |
| 16 | What had happened was that , having marched in straight lines over open flat ground for a while , their paths had taken them close to a pebble . |
| 17 | Sometimes , as they encountered new crowds of pole-carrying Annamese peasants jogging ceaselessly between market and rice field , or spilling out of their tiny village temples and pagodas , he felt that what had happened was somehow inextricably bound up with the torrid , exotic country that was so totally unfamiliar to him in all its ways , and other distressing images of the recent past began to flood through his mind ; he saw again the brutal French colon lashing the fallen prisoners between the shafts of the cart in Saigon , remembered the horror he had felt at the sight of what he thought were many massacred coolies on the river wharf on their arrival , and he heard once more the thud of the Citron striking the peasant boy on the way to the hunting camp . |
| 18 | What had happened was that Syl had , one evening , flushed with wine , remarked that he thought it would be a good idea if we got married . |
| 19 | The last time this had happened was in Belfast , when they had cornered that PIRA bastard in the cellar . |
| 20 | Utterly different from that silly , crushy feeling she had had for Tom before , when all that had happened was that she had felt miserably self-conscious and tongue-tied in his presence . |
| 21 | All that had happened was that her safe shell was broken and if it ever healed it would be filled inside with sadness . |
| 22 | What had happened was still too new , too vividly painful . |
| 23 | What had happened was that Birkenhead , Austen Chamberlain , Worthington Evans , Derby and Joynson Hicks had , together or separately ( and , according to Bridgeman , backed by Beaverbrook and Rothermere ) succeeded in persuading Balfour that Baldwin intended to resign ; that he should , if asked by the King , advise him to choose not MacDonald nor Asquith , but another Conservative- Derby or Austen Chamberlain , because he held Baldwin personally to blame rather than his party ; further , they had so worked on Stamfordham , that if Baldwin had gone to resign at once , the advice tendered to the King by his private secretary would have been the same . |
| 24 | He 'd been found Iying face down too , and the only sign of what had happened was a slight discoloration on the back of his jacket , as though some of the red dye from the trimming had leached on to the body of the black fabric . |
| 25 | What had happened was our secret , he said . |
| 26 | In in erm December in fact , we went on to what had happened was early last year , the nutrients were changed . |
| 27 | The first neighbours knew of what had happened was when police broke into the house last night . |
| 28 | The first neighbours knew of what had happened was when police broke into the house last night . |
| 29 | What had happened was this . |
| 30 | The shadow foreign secretary , Jack Cunningham , said what had happened was the work of ‘ a scurrilous Government without principle , which will use any expedient to sustain its view regardless of the opinions of the Commons ’ . |