Example sentences of "it had happen [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It 's a pity it had to happen that way .
2 It had to happen one day , but not yet .
3 It had to happen sometime and now was as good a time as any .
4 It had to happen some time .
5 If it had happened two years earlier , I could n't have coped .
6 Her reply was that she never cried and moreover had never talked about it since it had happened all those years ago .
7 When it had happened four or five times , and he had , perhaps , begun to feel some stirrings of a more disturbing passion , she had brought him up with a catalogue of the men she had had , and made it clear that — if she wanted it that way — there would be more .
8 He wished it had happened that way .
9 It had happened three times now .
10 It had happened three times before , with different men , and Cathy had reached the conclusion that she was somehow making it happen .
11 It had happened several times in the weeks since the funeral , and it scared him .
12 It had happened several times .
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