Example sentences of "it happen [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He declined to speculate on dates , except to say that he saw no sign of it happening next year ( 1992 ) ; there was too much backlog to be mopped up . |
| 2 | Every aspect of the trip is analysed to see Where we went wrong and how we can prevent it happening next time . |
| 3 | " If it happens that way , then it 's natural , " said her nephew . |
| 4 | In the nineteenth century , it was possible to see female castration as a cure , just as it happens these days that women request cosmetic surgery to make their genitalia look ‘ more tidy ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ She 's been in a coma since it happened six weeks ago . ’ |
| 6 | It happened many times over a period of weeks and , between the … visitations … there were moments when she doubted her own sanity . |
| 7 | Well yesterday because of the long queue it happened that way . |
| 8 | The equivalent of selling snow to eskimos must be the British selling ski slopes to the Swedish , but it happened two months ago at Ullna outside Stockholm . |
| 9 | ‘ He told me it happened 10 days earlier . |
| 10 | It happened one day when I ran out of petrol and this girl came along . |
| 11 | It happened one day that the master went away upon his business . ) |
| 12 | • Clark Gable , on the other hand , caused vest sales to drop drastically when he took off his shirt in ‘ It Happened One Night ’ , to reveal a completely bare torso . |
| 13 | It happened one night when Derek and I were down there . |
| 14 | It is interesting to compare Ferguson 's reaction to Vidor 's film with his reaction at much the same time to the newly released It Happened One Night , which Frank Capra had directed for Columbia . |
| 15 | William Troy in the Nation was similarly unable to find the right words to explain the greatness of It Happened One Night and he suggested that ‘ a good photoplay , like a good book or a good piece of music , remains always something of a miracle ’ and that ‘ beyond a certain point the mind is forced to bow down before its own inability to unravel and put together again all the parts of the shining and imponderable whole with which it is dealing ’ . |
| 16 | More than any other film , It Happened One Night had pointed the way forward , but , greatly to the surprise of many critics , problem films kept on appearing . |
| 17 | It happened twenty years ago , when you were still in short trousers . |
| 18 | As it happened American efforts to restrict Japanese expansion precipitated the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 . |
| 19 | It happened three times while I was there , each in very similar circumstances . |
| 20 | I 'm only — I wo n't say glad , no , that would be quite the wrong word , but , shall I say relieved , that it happened last night . ’ |
| 21 | It happened last Thursday evening when Elizabeth and I and your two brothers , Ernest and William , went for a walk outside the city . |
| 22 | However , as it happened this door was not quite closed . |
| 23 | Er so as it happened this girl had got the material erm a wild silk cream and er Elizabeth made up this dress for her of course er Michael Caine 's daughter i is quite a busty girl , you know |
| 24 | It happened this way : in the early days of the northwest telegraph service , the stations along the line were designated by numbers , and they ended each day 's transmissions with that number . |
| 25 | ‘ I think it happened this way . |
| 26 | He said , ‘ It happened this morning but there was no one to send till I came home from school . ’ |
| 27 | As it happened this period coincided with the arrival in Vancouver of Andrew Allan , later one of Canada 's all time great producers , and he was accompanied by his ‘ unofficial fiancee ’ that talented actress Judith Evelyn . |
| 28 | ‘ The police seem to think it happened some time after midnight last night . ’ |
| 29 | Erm well it happened some time between about two and six |
| 30 | Dexter had seen it happen many times before : the moment when a human being slips from conversation into confession , the moment when what seemed like a universal desire to atone for wickedness overwhelmed the conflicting wish for self-preservation . |