Example sentences of "[det] do [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | This did n't happen during a single eruption , of course ; the individual flows average only ten metres thick , so many hundreds of individual flows are piled up one on top of the other , covering an area of about 130,000 square kilometres . |
| 2 | This did n't happen in the ‘ good old days ’ . |
| 3 | But this did n't happen because I was brilliant . |
| 4 | This did n't happen last year and I was cross it did n't but I 've organized it so that it will this year . |
| 5 | But she was told this did n't happen because that office had shut and no one could get into it . |
| 6 | But sometimes it can sound too I know this did n't happen |
| 7 | Are you sure this did n't happen in your study ? |
| 8 | Are you sure this did n't happen in your study ? |
| 9 | He discovered that this did not happen . |
| 10 | In 1945 this did not happen : indeed , more than a decade was to pass before conscription was phased out . |
| 11 | This did not happen ; instead Soviet-American military rivalry generated the nuclear , conventional , and space arms races on a scale that dwarfed British efforts . |
| 12 | This did not happen during the golden years of 1966–80 : over that period GNP grew by an average of 10.4% a year and the workforce by 4.7% . |
| 13 | In the towns this did not happen — people watched indoors , in a guestroom . |
| 14 | Even if this did not happen , the idea that in the ‘ new Europe ’ envy , rancour and resentment can be abolished by a Europe directive is optimistic to say the least . |
| 15 | This did not happen . |
| 16 | It was possible to run all the winter services by railcoach , although this did not happen until the Marton route was modernised in post-war years . |
| 17 | Where this did not happen it would be possible for part of the membership of the Exchange Advisory Committees ( provided for in section 2 , subsection v of the Act ) to be co-opted to assist with the local education employment bureaux which were being started in Scotland and in parts of England . |
| 18 | This did not happen however . |
| 19 | They need to be tight to be waterproof , but these needed so much force I was scared of breaking the tube , although this did not happen . |
| 20 | While this system may produce more than one letter string as a result , this did not happen often . |
| 21 | Sutton promised to make sure this did not happen . |
| 22 | This did not happen . |
| 23 | That this did not happen to princes was a mark of their ability . |
| 24 | No one knew quite why this did not happen , why he remained good but no better than that , nor why he failed the audition for admission to a county youth orchestra . |
| 25 | In practice this did not happen . |
| 26 | This did not happen . |
| 27 | Edward II was such a king and yet this did not happen . |
| 28 | At previous elections the Liberals had tended to gain support during the campaign : in 1987 this did not happen . |
| 29 | This was in a sense the first of the family of rare or inert gases to be discovered ; but in chemistry the discovery of an element requires also its isolation , and this did not happen until 1895 , when William Ramsay was in the process of finding the whole group of these gases . |
| 30 | In the event , each group was so involved in its own task that this did not happen . |