Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] happen [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had happened on the last occasion as well , for Venice was delighted with Niccolò vander Poele , who had destroyed the plants and was freeing Cyprus , God be good , of the Genoese . |
| 2 | However , because of what had happened during the last few days , she knew she could not simply let this matter fade from her mind . |
| 3 | All the same it was n't easy to stop herself from wondering if he too was having difficulties in not remembering what had happened over the last forty-eight hours . |
| 4 | Look what had happened at the last seance . |
| 5 | When stewards realised what had happened after the second false start there was ‘ a period of shocked dismay ’ before anyone tried to stop the runaway field . |
| 6 | When stewards realised what had happened after the second false start there was ‘ a period of shocked dismay ’ before anyone tried to stop the runaway field . |
| 7 | What had happened in the nineteenth century was a relaxation in the definition of orthodoxy : Nonconformists no longer saw their chapels in virtual juxtaposition to the world about them . |
| 8 | What had happened in the fourteenth century , mainly French music had become very , very intellectual , very austere , very formal . |