Example sentences of "had happen in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had happened in the kitchen was a calculated wooing , tease , flirtation , safely outrageous . |
| 2 | Probably it was because of what had happened in the play at that point on the previous night . |
| 3 | For a moment , as he bent over her , she looked up at him , her parted lips soft and full , and , as had happened in the night , she felt a welter of emotion rising , swamping her heart . |
| 4 | Dr Lawrence , who was confirmed by one of the previous archbishops in Canterbury Cathedral , said that his society would never allow one of their leaders to undermine these essential doctrines as had happened in the Church of England . |
| 5 | A few heads turned towards him — passers-by who did n't yet know what had happened in the park . |
| 6 | A colleague from Christian Aid phoned me from Addis Ababa last night and he reported what had happened in the Red Sea port of Assab on Saturday which was when 15 trucks and trailers were loaded each with 22 tons of U N grain and there was a little ceremony as they left at 12 noon for Desai . |
| 7 | He had done so four years before , and nothing had happened in the meantime either to abate his ambition or to make him less qualified — in the latter case very much the reverse . |
| 8 | At Wickham 's prompting he painstakingly recalled everything that had happened in the pub that evening up to the time he missed the knife , and recited a list of names of customers who had been there . |
| 9 | She could n't simply go on as before , not after what had happened in the hotel 's restaurant . |
| 10 | I was afraid to go into the house after what had happened in the village , so I hid in the hut . |
| 11 | He confessed to no one but Sabraxis what had happened in the exercise court that morning . |
| 12 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |
| 13 | Things were n't getting better in here , they were getting worse ; what had happened in the passage ; I dare n't even think about that . |
| 14 | We were disliked because of things that had happened in the past and we did n't need any motivation when we kept hearing that sort of talk . |
| 15 | Then it occurred to him that there was no longer any reason to hide what had happened in the past ; he had nothing left to lose . |
| 16 | Before she reached it , she wanted everything that had happened in the past finally to be put behind her . |
| 17 | Although some deputies represented minor parties and associations , as had happened in the past , all candidates were approved by the ruling communist Korean Workers ' Party led by Kim Il Sung . |
| 18 | Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future . |
| 19 | ‘ I know , in spite of the fact that we agreed not to discuss it , it was all because of what had happened in the past , was n't it ? ’ |
| 20 | Whatever had happened in the past , this was not the time to be aloof , Ashley thought , as she allowed him to lead her away . |
| 21 | Felix taught Sophie from books about what had happened in the world in the past . |
| 22 | She saw him in the wings just before she went on stage and she chose to ignore whatever had happened in the interval . |
| 23 | And indeed , where little had happened in the years before December 1557 , there was an alarming upsurge of Protestant activity in 1558 . |
| 24 | Something terrible had happened in the time between his looking away and looking back . |
| 25 | Thirty years , of course , divide the publication of Jane Austen 's novels from the appearance of Disraeli 's trilogy , and much had happened in the interim to make the Gothic house grow serious . |
| 26 | She told Dexter what had happened in the meeting with Spittals and how he had ordered her off the case , and she asked Dexter to go on helping her . |
| 27 | Each critic and each interview discovered and reported the uncanny fact of what had happened in the production of the film , that it was one of those once-in-a-generation happenings , bringing together the right story , the right people and the right tone at exactly the right time . |
| 28 | Of all the most damned of coincidences ! she 'd thought , when Ari had told her what had happened in the canteen that first day at the Park . |
| 29 | I did n't spoil their evening by mentioning what had happened in the Praça . |
| 30 | Perhaps it was also something to do with the fact that this tall , blond Government man had corroborated his story about what had happened in the jeweller 's on that night . |