Example sentences of "had [adv] happen [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Sue 's skin , thought Marion , Sue 's skin , so why do I feel as if I 'm the one , as if it all happened in my room , as if it had all happened to me ?
2 Almost as though it had all happened in another life .
3 The same thing had already happened with Malcolm Macdonald at Newcastle when Lee was manager there .
4 This had already happened to many birds of prey and there were still farmers around who believed that eagles took live lambs , though the evidence was very slight .
5 The worst had already happened to her .
6 That small problem solved itself readily : one door stood open with Bruce Davidson leaning on the side in a careful presentation of a man who had just happened to be passing .
7 But suppose that nearly all the entries had just happened to be nasty .
8 When all the time I had actually been with him I had always realized he was the type to make a pass at the nearest girl with his last gasp , and I had just happened to be that girl .
9 I mean someone who would just sit down and tell you things , as if they had just happened on the way home .
10 If he had regretted his kiss the evening before , how on earth was he going to view what had just happened between them ?
11 How dare he look so composed , so unaffected by what had just happened between them , when her own stomach felt as if it were the epicentre of an earthquake ?
12 Nothing like that had just happened in the subway .
13 Kate told him what had just happened in Jason 's office .
14 Instances of police racial harassment which had always happened to other people , were now happening to us .
15 Nothing like this had ever happened to me before and I was determined to make a swift counterattack .
16 It had taken only a moment of time ; and in a certain sense everything else that had ever happened to me was insignificant in comparison .
17 The little horse was the most extraordinary thing that had ever happened to him in all his life , appearing like that in the torchlight and looking at him even before it was wholly born , as if to say , ‘ Hi , mate . ’
18 I thought I had just about run the gamut of sexual experiences , but nothing like this had ever happened to me before .
19 Between exercises he tried to keep his mind occupied in a number of ways : reciting every poem he could ever remember , pretending to dictate his autobiography to an invisible stenographer so that he could go over everything that had ever happened to him in his twenty-one years .
20 This was the strangest thing that had ever happened to her ; he had hurt her at the beginning , but now that was gone .
21 Best thing that had ever happened to him , Penny .
22 That kiss had been so bewildering , so utterly unlike anything that had ever happened to her in all her twenty-four years .
23 Her purchase by the B. J. Norsk Forsking of Larvik for seismographical work in the Bellingshausen Sea almost due south of the Horn was , as Ward put it , ‘ just about the very first good thin' that had ever happened to her , ’ even if it was a slightly clandestine operation .
24 Nothing even remotely like this had ever happened to her before , and she did n't like it .
25 For the next moment he was kissing her and she was instantly realising that nothing quite so exciting had ever happened to her before .
26 Nothing like this had ever happened to her before , and she should have been afraid .
27 Nothing like it had ever happened at UNACO .
28 God , it was as if nothing had ever happened between them .
29 It was a very difficult period , because whereas retrenchment and redundancy are now something employees understand and accept , this was the first time it had ever happened in ICI since the war .
30 Nothing as terrible had ever happened in all her years in the theatre .
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