Example sentences of "[pron] happen [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes you will be directly addressed by the characters — this is something which happened a great deal in Greek and Elizabethan theatre ( for example , look at the speech by Chorus in Act 4 , scene 1 of Henry V , which draws the audience into the atmosphere before a battle enormously effectively ) .
2 Fact : whenever the NME staff get all babyish and gooey over a band , I get suspicious because it happens every other week .
3 It happens every single day .
4 The comparison can be taken further ; as with child abuse in the home , people either believe it happens the whole time or not at all .
5 There is as it happens an Anglo-Saxon proverb analogous to Lord Acton 's , but still significantly different .
6 It happened every single time and it is very upsetting indeed .
7 As it happened a political upheaval in Indonesia in 1965 – 66 ( in which American contacts with the military in Indonesia may have played a part ) brought an unexpectedly early end to the confrontation with Britain .
8 It happened a long , long time back in the town of Posen .
9 It happened a long time ago , my dear , when we were quite small , romping in the wood .
10 When the moment came , it happened the other way round .
11 As it happened the new ramp section was only just rescued from a bulldozer in the nick of time as the skate scene said a final goodbye to Andover skatepark .
12 She did n't even know at what point friendship had turned into love , and if she had realised it when it happened the new bud of feeling might have blossomed crazily into hopeless longing and tongue-tied need … or perhaps it would have frosted away and died .
13 I emphasize this to make clear that what happened the following weekend was as unforeseeable as a plane falling on your house .
14 What happened the other day was wrong .
15 ‘ I hope you do n't think I would use what happened the other night in any way to try and influence you .
16 look what happened the communist just fell , fell on his face without a one shot
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