Example sentences of "[vb past] happen [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And all we shall have to do is to stick together and confess that this dreadful accident did happen a little bit earlier and we all felt devastated but there was a full house and we all felt we owed it to the public that the show should go on . |
| 2 | As though all this had happened a long time ago . |
| 3 | Once I noticed the familiar gap in a row of houses like the space left by a drawn tooth , but I could not be certain that it was the result of bombing and if it was it had happened a long time ago . |
| 4 | ‘ The theme of the story was that something very sinister had happened a long time ago which had left the planet looking entirely different from anywhere you could see on Earth . |
| 5 | They reminded Lucien of something that had happened a long time ago , but he could n't remember what . |
| 6 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 7 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 8 | If the explosions had happened a few weeks later , the Hoffmans would have been living somewhere else . |
| 9 | If this had happened a few years earlier — ’ |
| 10 | as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here . |
| 11 | Suddenly recalling an incident that had happened a few months previously , she gave a small , twisted smile . |
| 12 | They dragged me to the Police Station where I had to make a detailed statement of everything that had happened the first time intercourse took place . |
| 13 | What had happened the first time ? |
| 14 | Above all , how could he have the nerve to come here after what had happened the other night ? |
| 15 | After what had happened the previous evening exquisite delicacy had seemed uncalled for . |
| 16 | She had , but it had happened the previous afternoon , and Jack had gone with her to Rotherhithe Infirmary where she had been admitted with a broken hip . |
| 17 | He was depressed by what had happened the previous night . |
| 18 | They all knew what had happened the previous night and , from Wallas Ward 's announcement before the curtain rose , they knew that Charles had stepped in at very short notice . |
| 19 | She awoke with her body lazily relaxed , only slight soreness to remind her of what had happened the previous night . |
| 20 | Rachel thought how lovely she looked , then found herself wondering just what had happened the previous night between her sister and David — a couple who had once meant the world to each other . |
| 21 | Everybody else would realise what had happened the next day , or the day after that . |