Example sentences of "have happen a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 if it 'd happened a couple of weeks ago when she was about I would of kept going over like she said I could do
2 If impressing less as a ‘ big ’ personality she nevertheless has a vivid way of making the developments real and present : for example , at the start of the Act 2 solo , ‘ que viens-je d'entendre ? ’ , she conveys , still more than Baker , the sense of the overheard talk having happened a minute or two before .
3 Something comparable , and no less surprising , had happened a century earlier with the art-criticism of John Ruskin , and there is often something unnerving in the spectacle of an activity once thought of as specialist and tedious catapulted into sudden acclaim .
4 The same thing had happened a year ago when Peter Senior slipped past him .
5 She realized what had happened a moment too late : she clutched at the broken chain , missed , and saw her keepsake , the silver Madonna , fall with a plop into the Atlantic .
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