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 |