Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [adv] happened to " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Not the usual kind of student 's flat , ’ muttered the Marshal , surprised to find his feet walking on fitted carpet , a thing that only happened to him in the lobbies of hotels he was checking on .
2 My life would have been much poorer without Brownsea Island , and I always think that the National Trust was the best thing that ever happened to me .
3 It 's the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me ! ) .
4 It was the best thing that ever happened to me , really , to be asked by my hero .
5 He now has four children , and insists that having kids early ‘ was the greatest thing that ever happened to me .
6 Kathy : Scott is the best thing that ever happened to us .
7 The most moving thing that ever happened to them , they say — but secretly I think it is all to do with stealing thunder from the women .
8 Loving you was the best thing that ever happened to me : I could never go with anyone else .
9 I know it 's the best thing that ever happened to me .
10 I 've spent thirty years as a Company Shock Trooper , and IMC 's the best thing that ever happened to me .
11 ‘ Cancer best thing that ever happened to me ’
12 NEW Zealander Mary-Jane Hilton means every word when she says cancer was the best thing that ever happened to her .
13 ‘ I know it sounds terrible but I 'm awfully glad I had cancer it was the best thing that ever happened to me , ’ she said .
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