Example sentences of "that happened " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , to say that events that happened when I was in my late twenties somehow predisposed me to homelessness would be absolute nonsense . |
| 2 | The cap that happened to get overlooked returns the reader 's gaze blankly yet unavoidably , like the bill from a restaurant abroad which the conspirators find when they turn out the dead man 's pockets , and like the child 's clay whistle which one of them has provided himself with to give the agreed signal — for he has lost so many teeth that he ca n't trust himself to produce the sound naturally . |
| 3 | As history , nothing that happened here yesterday was ever likely to match the events of Friday , but as entertainers , the Indian batsmen generally hold their own . |
| 4 | However , even those who do not doubt the terrible things that happened can still squabble about their meaning . |
| 5 | ‘ Under Reagan , everything bad that happened was either my fault or Nixon 's fault or Congress 's fault or some foreigner 's … |
| 6 | You may be interested in an event that happened to me after our Remembrance Service at East Kirkby early this July . |
| 7 | The best bit 's when the light 's out , and I can listen to her breathing , and if I want to say summat — you know , summat that happened in the day — I can just speak soft and she 'll hear me . |
| 8 | She had a wonderful memory and recalled much that happened in both world wars . |
| 9 | So you feel the same enlightenment that happened to Dylan has also befallen you ? |
| 10 | Little did I know how right he was because the first thing that happened when David 's mother had a bad day , she would call me everything under the sun . |
| 11 | But Miss Huntley would still inherit £200,000 on Miss Morgan 's death , whenever that happened . ’ |
| 12 | Either nothing happened that did not happen on CNN , or , more likely , much that happened stayed under wraps . |
| 13 | We measure happiness and sadness by momentous things that happened on occasions such as these . |
| 14 | ‘ Wipe your nose first , and then I 'll tell you something that happened to me . |
| 15 | After the Nobel announcement , Novy Mir 's letter of rejection of two years before was hastily published to lend justification to Pasternak 's expulsion from the writers ' union as a traitor : ‘ The spirit of your novel is that of non-acceptance of the Socialist Revolution , that it brought the people nothing but suffering and destroyed the Russian intelligentsia … that the Revolution was a mistake and that all that happened afterwards was evil . ’ |
| 16 | The last time that happened was with an Irish judge in the 1830s . |
| 17 | Although it may seem that her greatest loss may be that of her husband , it is usually recognized that she may well be unable to look at the implications of his death until she has dealt with those that happened before he died . |
| 18 | All that happened was that individual kings and individual magnates or magnate families sometimes came into collision . |
| 19 | ANEW book is about to remind America of the worst that happened in the Vietnam War . |
| 20 | It was the best thing that happened to her . |
| 21 | A spokesman for Midland said : ‘ They are technical rule breaches that happened three years ago . |
| 22 | The worst thing that happened to diesel recently is the allegation of carcinogenic properties.It is argued that diesel fumes contain microscopic particles of sticky carbon , on to which are attracted carcinogens that can enter the lungs . |
| 23 | The subsequent development of the jaw enabled the vertebrates to exploit a wider range of lifestyles than were available to the jawless fish , and it would not be too gross a generalization to say that much of the evolution of the vertebrates was intimately related to things that happened to jaws . |
| 24 | Fossil plants are of great use in plotting the many shifts of climate that happened during the Tertiary : a humid-tropical flora may be found in what is now an arid region , or a warm-climate flora may be found in an area that is now decidedly cool . |
| 25 | It is found along with fossils of planktonic organisms and it is possible to explain the change in growth between coil and trumpet as a change that happened when the larval shell settled on the bottom . |
| 26 | They knocked , gained entrance and offered the lady a large amount of money if s-he would abide by certain conditions and would never breathe a word of anything that happened on that fateful night . |
| 27 | With a sexual history spanning more than twenty years and including fifty or sixty different partners , he regarded VD as something that happened to other people , and was somewhat surprised to develop a mild urethral discharge five weeks after first sleeping with his new girl-friend , Angela , who was younger than him and relatively sexually inexperienced . |
| 28 | And the method they have adopted has proved to be the beginning of the slide that has lead to mass dispersals of the kind that happened at Brent . |
| 29 | ‘ David brings up situations that happened five years ago and still writes about them . |
| 30 | ‘ But to go out on a limb and take any bunch of morons , just those that happened to be around when he met Plumpton , and propose that they should do this thing — that 's really sticking your neck out . |