Example sentences of "had happened [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , many things had happened during the two years since she had been told that her mother had died of the fever and that , prior to this , she had not been allowed to see her in case she should catch it and spread it further . |
| 2 | At the same time , however strong the desire to cut defence costs and to give priority to home affairs , too much had happened since the mid-1930s for the United States to return to its prewar foreign and defence policies . |
| 3 | What had happened to the two other bearers who had started out with them he did not know . |
| 4 | Memories of what had happened in the 1290s , when John Balliol was a vassal king and Edward I intervened all too directly in Scottish affairs , produced a careful spelling-out of the Scottish position . |
| 5 | And she needed that sort of help ; because although nothing had happened in the four days since Adam had returned from Starr Hills , the nights were becoming more than she could bear . |
| 6 | They recognise full well that , if that had happened in the 1950s , 1960s or 1970s , the story of this country in Europe and of the Community would have been different . |