Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] happened " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing apparently happened for two months after the Institute 's delegation . |
| 2 | In Ardeevan we just lay and rotted and nothing ever happened between Doctor Staples 's weekly rounds – except that someone died . |
| 3 | Robin and Jenny were the ones who had adventures , fell walking or sailing on the lake , always coming home with hair-raising stories ; but nothing ever happened to Ruth . |
| 4 | Nothing ever happened to him . |
| 5 | Nothing ever happened in Broadstairs . |
| 6 | ‘ But nothing ever happened , ’ said Stevie . |
| 7 | ‘ Nothing ever happened in terms of stab wounds . ’ |
| 8 | Nothing more happened ; and no hypothesis made sense . |
| 9 | He watched the door for a bit , but nothing more happened . |
| 10 | I sat up for the next few nights , my head poking out of the back skylight of the loft , my ears straining for the tinkle of glass breaking or muffled curses , or the more usual signal of the birds being disturbed and taking flight , but nothing more happened . |
| 11 | This respondent echoed the thoughts of the first by concluding that ‘ … it looks as if he 's played around in the paint , trying to create something — or he 's got confused and mixed everything up and something just happened ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Something just happened . |
| 13 | Erm , oh er , in P E , erm , we 're setting up tents , and I was the bats and I 'm amazed , something just happened . |
| 14 | He would use her as one used a paper towel , as an object of little worth that one just happened to find useful . |
| 15 | It was all a routine , a schtick he 'd pull on any sucker to convince them something really happened when you ‘ interfaced ’ . |
| 16 | The speed at which everything then happened made it all seem rather unreal : |
| 17 | In the black winter of early 1947 , something else happened which was to provide a general justification for the next forty years of dredging and river clearance . |
| 18 | ‘ And after the tonsils something else happened ? ’ she said , looking for more , because he did n't seem a man to make a fuss over tonsils , but he evaded her and said only , ‘ Foul year . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ No , ’ he said , ‘ but I was there when something else happened . |
| 20 | Ooh and there 's ooh something else happened as well ! |
| 21 | I 'm glad nothing worse happened . |
| 22 | I was on bass , David was on acoustic guitar and we got this guy called Tex , he was a black conga player and came around with us doing a few gigs , although nothing really happened . |
| 23 | But nothing really happened . |
| 24 | Hurt it might , but nothing else happened . |
| 25 | Nothing else happened . |
| 26 | Nothing else happened . |
| 27 | When nothing else happened disappointment diluted her excitement . |
| 28 | I wanted to get out before anything worse happened . |
| 29 | I told him they said there was n't enough to go on , but if anything else happened it would all count . ’ |