Example sentences of "it happen [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 's been in a coma since it happened six weeks ago . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ He told me it happened 10 days earlier . |
| 4 | It happened one day when I ran out of petrol and this girl came along . |
| 5 | It happened one day that the master went away upon his business . ) |
| 6 | • 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 . |
| 7 | It happened one night when Derek and I were down there . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It happened twenty years ago , when you were still in short trousers . |
| 12 | It happened three times while I was there , each in very similar circumstances . |
| 13 | He has n't asked me yet , not formally , he has n't done the man-to-man bit with my father , I 'm just expecting it to happen one day , maybe . ’ |