Example sentences of "it happen [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's been in a coma since it happened six weeks ago . ’ |
| 3 | It happened many times over a period of weeks and , between the … visitations … there were moments when she doubted her own sanity . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ He told me it happened 10 days earlier . |
| 6 | It happened twenty years ago , when you were still in short trousers . |
| 7 | As it happened American efforts to restrict Japanese expansion precipitated the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 . |
| 8 | It happened three times while I was there , each in very similar circumstances . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He always did it for a while and then just let it ride to see what happened , but all of a sudden ( it 's amazing — I 've seen it happen several times ) he gets out of bed one morning and says , ‘ Right , I 'm going to do something about it — it 's not moving fast enough for me ’ . |
| 11 | Has it has it happened other times as well or |