Example sentences of "[verb] happened to [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It says that at least some of the characteristics of this hyper-individualist people can not be explained by what has happened to them in the Ottoman time and since , because these characteristics predate the Ottomans . |
| 2 | Everything that has happened to her over the past year has been genuine , from breaking her thumb to the operation , not to mention all the hassle she has had from standing by her father . |
| 3 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 4 | What has happened to me in the group is that my own perceptions of myself and others have been modified by group norms , which may only be mine marginally . |
| 5 | He will shift very rapidly between different representations of the equipment ; the thing itself , his maintenance instructions , the manual , the drawings of the system , verbal discussion with a colleague , his recollection of what has happened to it in the past and so on . |
| 6 | What has happened to it in the course of its life ? |
| 7 | This short article is to let you know what has happened to us over the last few months . |
| 8 | Now given the nature of the coastal economy and what has happened to us in the last ten years or so , we have calculated our conversions through to two thousand and six on a reducing level . |
| 9 | So often , what has happened to us in the past determines whether or not we find it easy to trust both ourselves and others emotionally as adults . |
| 10 | And everything that has happened to you in the way of learning . |
| 11 | Could something have happened to her on the way home last night ? |
| 12 | In the build up to her first ever world tour , the now seasoned campaigner decided it was time to kill the cutesy girl-next-door and reflect the reality of what had happened to her over the previous two years . |
| 13 | Once again she wished she understood what had happened to her in the last three months . |
| 14 | What had happened to her in the church — and in a church — and with him . |
| 15 | I was n't prepared for what had happened to her in the year since I had last seen her . |
| 16 | It was as though all that had happened to her in the past year was suddenly before her , and all her own shortcomings into the bargain had landed on her in a heap , and were destroying her . |
| 17 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 18 | At the time of writing I was too taken up with the present to make any but the vaguest connection with what had happened to me in the past . |
| 19 | I had to accept what had happened to me in the past before I could even begin to accept the changes in my life . |
| 20 | But my father never did a regular job after he come out th out of the army you know , I think it was something had happened to him in the army , he 'd got erm bomb blast or something or he was near s something when it went off and he got buried . |
| 21 | And that 's what had happened to him in the prison , because someone said , I wonder how long that will last . |
| 22 | Something had happened to him after the severance from Father Poole . |
| 23 | This is not a book about the experience of watching them , a collection of weird scenes inside the cinema : ‘ We were chewing the fat , telling stories about peculiar things that had happened to us at the cinema , trying to top each other . |
| 24 | When they dined together at the Perroquet in March 1951 , they talked among other things about ‘ British painting and what had happened to it since the high hopes of the war ’ . |
| 25 | How lovely it would be to find the garden , and see what had happened to it in the last ten years ! |
| 26 | erm , I like to talk , so he 's wound down , you know , really sleepy , comes to bed , and I 'm like , that 's when I wind down by chatting away and saying , you know , little snippets of things that have happened to you during the day , and he 's just like , oh , shut up , go to sleep , you know . |
| 27 | One of the marvellous things about this record is that there 's so many references to all sorts of things that have happened to us over the last couple of years . |