Example sentences of "it [det] happened " in BNC.

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1 It all happened so quickly — sometimes I think it may have been too quickly .
2 Her son has taken her up in his hang-glider ( can you carry two on a hang-glider ? ) , and she recalls her life and loves as she sails over the old family farm and the nearby manganese factory where it all happened .
3 It all happened too fast .
4 And that 's how it all happened .
5 It all happened really quickly .
6 One could calmly ovulate and not even know one was doing it , as it all happened ‘ down there ’ ; this left ‘ up here ’ free for intellectual thought .
7 ‘ When the Germans came , in March 1939 , it all happened in one night .
8 He swore it all happened so quickly , he could do nothing about it .
9 I did n't even know he still had my address , it all happened years before , we barely even had an affair .
10 It all happened when the two of us played a practice game together at the club one afternoon .
11 It all happened at the 15th , which is now Birkdale 's 16th .
12 Killermont was where it all happened for me , though .
13 It all happened very quickly in the same week .
14 How it all happened I now do n't quite know ,
15 Then without any warning it all happened suddenly .
16 As they drove off behind the Ford , he said , ‘ It all happened , Mum . ’
17 In the Unification Church and they 're stealing a march on us right enough and that 's what they 're doing — stealing that march — and they 're up to no good in their unification and I know they 're not and they know I know they 're not and that 's why it all happened .
18 Looking at the evidence leads many scientists to believe that God made the world , whereas other scientists look at the same evidence and believe that it all happened by chance and that the world , the solar system , you and me are all just the result of a lucky string of enormous flukes !
19 I mean , it was a fluke that it all happened , because that kind of music was being played all through the South East — Louisiana , Arkansas , Mississippi , Tennessee .
20 I ca n't believe how calm I was when it all happened .
21 It all happened in exactly the way we wanted it to .
22 In the event , it all happened so fast that even had Doyle slipped into the garage after Weaver , he would have been too late to prevent tragedy .
23 Like virgins to the sacrificial altar , they followed Molly Malone to the place where it all happened ; where Wrens must learn to live in a men 's world because now the war was nearer to them than it had ever been .
24 It all happened in seconds , ’ said Nationalist Party member Ray Radue .
25 I 'd left school in 1976 , I was unemployed and it all happened through a drama group at the Royal Court Theatre where I met people who were out .
26 He was only nineteen when it all happened .
27 It all happened so quickly that Shepherd at first gave Miandad out .
28 Unfortunately , it all happened so fast that they cancelled the sold-out dates because they simply could n't get their work permits in time .
29 It all happened very quickly .
30 It all happened just the day before the announcement , and there were all those supporting press releases to write , print and stuff into public relations kits .
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