Example sentences of "did [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 31 | The hungry sheep seem to look up in vain to their religious leaders and , if this was the whole reality , it is surprising that the Reformation did not happen a good deal earlier . |
| 32 | It can not be proved that the virgin birth did not happen . |
| 33 | Some try to explain the miracles away and say that they did not happen . |
| 34 | The operation did not happen until the end of June that year . |
| 35 | ‘ We thought the worse and that VAT would be imposed on things like newspapers and reading material , along with children 's clothing , but that did not happen . |
| 36 | While this system may produce more than one letter string as a result , this did not happen often . |
| 37 | Sutton promised to make sure this did not happen . |
| 38 | This did not happen . |
| 39 | That simply did not happen and I was treated with the utmost courtesy and respect as a representative of a significant Church . |
| 40 | It did not happen . |
| 41 | REMEMBER all the bad things that were going to happen , but did not happen , after the Gulf war two years ago ? |
| 42 | It did not happen . |
| 43 | However , this does not mean that his position was incompatible with individual reformation ; he just did not happen to consider it . |
| 44 | The bankruptcies did not happen , but he bought the Daily Mirror into ATV when bankruptcy looked possible , after the traumatic first year . |
| 45 | That this did not happen to princes was a mark of their ability . |
| 46 | Freud seems to be willing to put it this way , and then to want to insist again that it was an actual deed , otherwise the impact is immediately lost once we allow ourselves to think that it did not happen . |
| 47 | No one knew quite why this did not happen , why he remained good but no better than that , nor why he failed the audition for admission to a county youth orchestra . |
| 48 | In practice this did not happen . |
| 49 | This did not happen . |
| 50 | It did not happen : and yet the demise of the book , the transformation of the traditional classroom , and indeed the end of schools and colleges as we now know them , have all been forecast with an almost hilarious regularity throughout the century , with the results that we see around us . |
| 51 | Edward II was such a king and yet this did not happen . |
| 52 | And it did not happen here , not at St-Jean , it happened a hundred miles away and more , across the border , at Alassio , in another country , in my country , one of my countries . |
| 53 | This certainly did not happen . |
| 54 | But that did not happen . |
| 55 | It did not happen . |
| 56 | Even now , she thought , if ordeals like that first night in Nice did not happen again , it might yet be possible . |
| 57 | However , thanks to my evasive action it did not happen . |
| 58 | At previous elections the Liberals had tended to gain support during the campaign : in 1987 this did not happen . |
| 59 | I am glad to say that immense capital investment is going into that , which did not happen under the last Labour Government . |
| 60 | Mr. Hughes : Had that happened , it would have been fine , but we know that it did not happen in the vast majority of cases . |