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 . |