Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] happen [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No-one knows for certain where she was going or what happened that summer of 1983 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | " If it happens that way , then it 's natural , " said her nephew . |
| 4 | That you knew each other when you were children , I mean , and what happened that summer . ’ |
| 5 | Where she was going and what happened that summer of 1983 are still a mystery . |
| 6 | But it has n't worked out that way and what happened last night was so … ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I know schools up the [ place in West Belfast ] who would welcome us , but what happened one time , a school up there won the trophy and the next day some boys [ i.e. from the IRA ] came demanding the shield and threatening what they would do to certain teachers if it was n't handed over . |
| 9 | But what happened twenty years earlier at Blackpool in 1958 ? |
| 10 | ‘ She 's been in a coma since it happened six weeks ago . ’ |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | As it happened American efforts to restrict Japanese expansion precipitated the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 . |
| 13 | However , as it happened this door was not quite closed . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But remember the advice of Robin Leigh-Pemberton , governor of the Bank of England : the 12-month inflation rate reflects what happened a year ago as much as what happened last month . |