Example sentences of "it happened [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it happened towards the end of a lunch or dinner . |
| 2 | It happened during a performance by a newly setup amateur dramatic group , all of whose members were mentally handicapped . |
| 3 | It happened during a holiday tour Chris and her husband John took in China after he completed his part of the OSART at Daya Bay nuclear power station ( see below left ) . |
| 4 | It happened during a rock concert in Ontario , Canada , on Saturday night . |
| 5 | It happened during a visit of two captains from the Nord Pas de Calais , the vessel which carries freight between Dunkirk and Dover . |
| 6 | I do n't know , Victorine said : it was all pulled down from one day to the next , and you know it happened during the war , everything was topsy-turvy then . |
| 7 | cos it happened over the weekend digging up holes in the erm in the golf course . |
| 8 | Only 1 man in 5 had planned the occasion , for 17% it was a one-night stand , for 13% it happened at a party , while 11% say they were drunk at the time . |
| 9 | We were probably all busy out in the fields at the time since it happened at the beginning of September . |
| 10 | It happened at the time of the National Junior Championships in Nottingham and we had n't seen the television that morning . |
| 11 | In the early stages we started off with perhaps Minor schools which could almost have been Major ones , because you were just trying to find any school that had got some kind of life , or interest , or things happening … really in many ways it was rather a matter of chance because of the way it happened at the time . |
| 12 | It seemed certain it happened at the time of manufacture . |
| 13 | It happened with the help of a loose monetary policy , under which the central bank 's discount rate was pushed down four times in 1985–87 , to a historic low of 2.5% . |
| 14 | It happened on a farm at Winson near Bibury in Gloucestershire . |
| 15 | It happened on a visit to his native Glasgow , when he decided to borrow a friend 's camera and see what he could do . |
| 16 | It happened on the northbound carriageway of the A(34) thirty four , near junction nine of the M(40) forty . |
| 17 | It happened on the A four three five at Teddington near the Worcestershire border . |
| 18 | It happened on the A forty nine ( 49 ) at Callow , just south of Hereford . |
| 19 | ‘ If anything happened , it happened on the boat . |
| 20 | With me it happened on an ultra-scan . |
| 21 | Now I want to allow a bit more time for questions so I 'll just end if I may with a funny story which , did n't happen to me , it happened to a colleague of mine , erm a young lady , who went to give er a talk like this to group of adults like yourselves and at the end of the meeting the treasurer went up to her and said do we owe you any fee or expenses ? |
| 22 | It 's not right when it happens to the lads from the inner cities , so it would n't be right if it happened to the lads from the county set . |
| 23 | Company lawyers are not keen on this very good scheme because where damage or loss is suffered by a third party , as for instance where a brake failure results in damage to an airport building , the dissemination of details of the circumstances in which it happened outside the company could prejudice the defence they are going to put up for their airline when the airport puts in a claim for damages . |
| 24 | Tory leaders thundering against the takeover of Liverpool city council by the militant Left in the 1980s scarcely mentioned that it happened despite a majority of the city 's electorate voting against Labour . |
| 25 | In other words , we identify a particular event as the cause because we know how it could have made the effect happen , not because we know it happened before the effect . |
| 26 | It happened after the betrothal . |
| 27 | It happened a month after the Broompark had rolled and wheezed her way out of Bordeaux to face the U-boats and the bombers , and it happened in a Soho pub . |
| 28 | It happened in a flash , although in retrospect everything seemed to occur in slow motion , as though I were watching from another planet . |
| 29 | It happened in a flash . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It happened in the service road . |