Example sentences of "it happened to " in BNC.
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| 61 | He had an endearing habit at 10 o'clock of calling on each facet of his customers , starting with the lowest rank of airman , to " piss off " ; and worked through the ranks until he got to Kings ( and on this occasion it happened to be King Peter of Yugoslavia ) . |
| 62 | because it happened to me , you know the little soft bit ? |
| 63 | Thus we 've never considered it right to hand out cheques on a mere whim , deciding to sponsor a project , or support a charity because it happened to be the flavour of the month , or because a director had some some particular keen interest in it . |
| 64 | ‘ That 's what you 'd say if it happened to anybody else . ’ |
| 65 | It happened to be a goods ' entrance , and as she pushed open the heavy doors and slipped inside the deafening noise hit her — of hammering and drilling and the drone of the hydraulic pumps that operated the floor levels together with the shouts of the men operating the overhead cranes . |
| 66 | She knew it was a modern world and that it happened to people all the time and that it was n't such a big deal — medically or culturally . |
| 67 | If it happened to them , they 'd do something . |
| 68 | It 's not right when it happens to the lads from the inner cities , so it would n't be right if it happened to the lads from the county set . |
| 69 | ‘ With a three-stroke lead it 's almost inevitable that you start to look ahead and it happened to me . ’ |
| 70 | It happened to me last week . ’ |
| 71 | It happened to me when I was sort of looking at some sort of electronic engineering that I was n't supposed to be doing I was just looking at it for interest like Well I 'd like to have the time to spend on that but I 'll leave that thank you very much . |
| 72 | It happened to that the other day . |
| 73 | It happened to me , and it could happen to you . |
| 74 | It happened to quality assistant Liz Stephens , who works at Courtaulds Electrical Insulation in Runcorn , UK , but happily she survived to tell the tale . |
| 75 | It happened to be entitled ‘ Jubilant Our Feet ’ . |
| 76 | In I think it happened to me to some extent . |
| 77 | She were laughing at me Joyce when it happened to me , I ca n't believe how stupid you are she said |
| 78 | It was the same when her Mum got when it happened to her they got her a load of new clothes and she was trying them on and grandad said hey get in here now . |
| 79 | But they did it to everybody , it happened to everybody . |
| 80 | It was a dirty trick to put it into to poor Mary Lou 's desk said Jean , she ca n't help being scared of things I suppose , she almost jumped out of her skin when she saw it , I should of thought any joker in our form would of been decent enough to popped it into say Alicia 's desk , not if it happened to be Alicia who popped it in said a sly voice , you do so love playing tricks do n't you Alicia ? |
| 81 | she said well it happened to me , it 's the chemicals on the skin of the fruit and the tomatoes , that 's what brought your spots on and after a couple of days or whatever they went away . |
| 82 | it happened to us after forty eight hours ! |
| 83 | It happened to her |
| 84 | and , I did n't so much I just thought that it happened to me |
| 85 | erm I ca n't roll them off and I do n't know if it applies in all of them , but it happened to me in Italy that erm I was fined on the spot . |