Example sentences of "[vb past] ever happened " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing like this had ever happened to me before and I was determined to make a swift counterattack . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They are often advertised in the newspapers as ‘ bomb proof ! ’ ; no matter what occurs they will just continue their mild sweet way as if nothing had ever happened . |
| 4 | On my way back to Anastasia , I catch sight of a tree-creeper and watch him flit from tree to tree , scurrying mouse-like up their trunks as though nothing else had ever happened here . |
| 5 | When the journalists looked up from their notebooks and cameras , they had all gone , the multitude of minders , aides and advisers , as if none of this had ever happened . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | These chronicles , he said , were a universal ether-library with records of every personal experience , thought and deed that had ever happened . |
| 9 | I thought I had just about run the gamut of sexual experiences , but nothing like this had ever happened to me before . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This was the strangest thing that had ever happened to her ; he had hurt her at the beginning , but now that was gone . |
| 12 | I just wanted to forget it had ever happened . |
| 13 | Best thing that had ever happened to him , Penny . |
| 14 | Nothing like it had ever happened at UNACO . |
| 15 | Then I washed and dried the two beer-mugs and the three vases , and put them back in their normal places , as if nothing had ever happened . |
| 16 | Nothing like this had ever happened while Cedric still lived with Dorothy ! |
| 17 | Nothing as terrible had ever happened in all her years in the theatre . |
| 18 | Nothing but a memory that could be someone else 's to tell Jezrael that any of this had ever happened . |
| 19 | If most of what was sometimes called ‘ the payroll vote ’ attended , the critics would have to carry seven-tenths of the backbenchers and if this had ever happened , the press would have treated it as a total collapse of confidence in the government . |
| 20 | It felt as if none of that had ever happened . |
| 21 | That kiss had been so bewildering , so utterly unlike anything that had ever happened to her in all her twenty-four years . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Nothing even remotely like this had ever happened to her before , and she did n't like it . |
| 24 | And for those people who are n't happy with what Stacker does anyway ( like our esteemed editor , for example ) , the package now comes with a useful Unstack feature so you can automatically return your system to its original state as if nothing had ever happened . |
| 25 | The woman denied that this had ever happened quite vehemently . |
| 26 | You know , a very good example of this , that always sticks in my mind , telling me erm , that once she was analyzing a woman and er , a lot of the analysis was concerned with erm , conflicts , erm , relating to masturbation in childhood , and constantly felt that this was what the analysis seemed to have done , because the woman consistently denied this had ever happened . |
| 27 | In fact , the intelligence of ficers were ordered afterwards to forget the thing had ever happened . |
| 28 | For the next moment he was kissing her and she was instantly realising that nothing quite so exciting had ever happened to her before . |
| 29 | Nothing like this had ever happened to her before , and she should have been afraid . |
| 30 | God , it was as if nothing had ever happened between them . |