Example sentences of "it [vb past] happen [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | It 's a pity it had to happen that way . |
3 | It had to happen one day , but not yet . |
4 | It had to happen some time . |
5 | If it had happened two years earlier , I could n't have coped . |
6 | He wished it had happened that way . |
7 | It had happened three times now . |
8 | It had happened three times before , with different men , and Cathy had reached the conclusion that she was somehow making it happen . |
9 | It had happened several times in the weeks since the funeral , and it scared him . |
10 | It had happened several times . |