Example sentences of "they did [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 . |