Example sentences of "that [vb past] [adv] happen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either nothing happened that did not happen on CNN , or , more likely , much that happened stayed under wraps . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This was the strangest thing that had ever happened to her ; he had hurt her at the beginning , but now that was gone . |
| 6 | Best thing that had ever happened to him , Penny . |
| 7 | That kiss had been so bewildering , so utterly unlike anything that had ever happened to her in all her twenty-four years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | One of those old elusive memories from the back of my brain returned to baffle me — a memory of something that had never happened to me . |
| 10 | It was something that had never happened before and she stood for a moment trying to control the thoughts that raced through her head . |