Example sentences of "happen a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the , what has happened I think , over the last two and half years , that I 'm aware of , erm , is basically happening a long time before that , I , I ca n't say yes or no . |
| 2 | Bladder control at night sometimes happens a long time after control in the day , and as with daytime training , it 's best to wait until a child shows signs of being able to develop control . |
| 3 | So Middleton did two sorties I believe , and on each occasion he brought back an aircraft that was no longer capable of flying and was a write-off , it had so much flak and fighter damage , When the same thing happened a second time I had Middleton in and told him that one of his problems was his navigator who was just not able to navigate him round the very heavy flak areas . |
| 4 | But this , as he would say , is a long story , and happened a long time ago . |
| 5 | After all , these things happened a long time ago . |
| 6 | Historical events that happened a long time ago . |
| 7 | I do n't know when this story started but it certainly happened a long time ago . |
| 8 | She swallowed hard and began , ‘ Well , the Big Bang happened a long time ago . |
| 9 | But then , all this business happened a long time ago . |
| 10 | ‘ I did n't see the relevance of something that happened a long time ago . |
| 11 | ‘ It happened a long time ago , my dear , when we were quite small , romping in the wood . |
| 12 | So after it happened a few times our teacher said ‘ We wo n't have cooking like this any more . ’ |
| 13 | That happened a few times . |
| 14 | Every time he walked that 's him come back again and every time he stopped it stopped and this happened a few times and he was very scared and he thought he had better go and see what the noise was and anything well it was just a pet sheep tangled up in its tether . |
| 15 | That happened a few times ! |
| 16 | As though all this had happened a long time ago . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The hurt itself may have happened a long time ago , and may even be something that you have forgotten all about . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | They reminded Lucien of something that had happened a long time ago , but he could n't remember what . |
| 21 | I do not propose to allow this to happen a second time — with you . ’ |
| 22 | In one case this had happened twice on the same land and was about to happen a third time for bulldozer had arrived to destroy a newly erected building where a woman stood in the way , she was one of the nuns helping in the area ; the defence was successful . |