Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] happen " in BNC.
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1 | Some try to explain the miracles away and say that they did not happen . |
2 | They did not happen that often — at least the meals happened , but not often with such unanimity of good humour . |
3 | When you talked to judges in the Sixties , they might have told you they did n't happen at all or would be willing to concede that a miscarriage might take place once every 10 years . ’ |
4 | I reply : do you think they did n't happen ? |
5 | They did n't happen often , and could come at the unlikeliest times and places . |
6 | We try to keep aberrations like that to an absolute minimum — we 'd rather they did n't happen at all , obviously , but every so often the gremlins creep in . |