Example sentences of "it [verb] happen [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Since 1961 , it has happened 17 times in 31 seasons , or over half : a remarkable proportion given the economic imbalance that has developed already within English football during the last 31 years . |
2 | But this was unknown to Dean Miller , it having happened twenty-seven years before he was born . |
3 | Moderator it ca n't be very often that a young minister contradicts a giant of the church in open assembly but it did happen several years ago . |
4 | It 's a pity it had to happen that way . |
5 | It had to happen one day , but not yet . |
6 | It had to happen some time . |
7 | If it had happened two years earlier , I could n't have coped . |
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 . |
13 | If it does happen different officers will be used to deal with the two groups , so the cross-fertilisation theory does n't hold water . |
14 | It 's happened many times to all of us . |
15 | I 'm ve I this is the first time it 's happened this way round that anybody 's got That 's the most subtle clue and somebody 's spotted it . |
16 | ‘ It 's not the first time it 's happened this season , either . |