Example sentences of "[noun] that happened to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As previously mentioned in this book , signalboxes are the sort of railway infrastructure that , by their often remote location , are likely to have experiences of a supernatural nature and so it is no surprise that most signalmen have a tale of mystery and suspense that happened to friends of theirs . |
| 2 | In 1875 Francis Seymour Haden , FRCS , advocated by means of three letters to The Times a disintegrating coffin ‘ … of some lighter permeable material , such as wicker or lattice-work , open at the top , and filled in with any fragrant herbaceous matters that happened to be most readily obtainable . |
| 3 | Erm , and that er what causes erm David Lewis to tell the sorts of stories about he tells is this kind of hideous accident that happened to him when he was three years old and then was exaggerated by his |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ The hotel looked good — particularly the room service — but I do n't think I 'd want to have gone through the other things that happened to Kevin unless I had 50,000 policeman and 20,000 doctors with me to make sure I was okay . ’ |
| 6 | It was just one of those things that happened to even the nicest people , and the sensible thing to do about it was pay £25 and turn up at a London hotel for a glass of sherry and an implicit promise of no humiliation if things did n't work out . |
| 7 | We have to work out some of the things that happened to Julie — and what her thoughts and feelings were . |
| 8 | 1 Make a list of the main things that happened to her in the story . |
| 9 | Erm , a slightly different set of things that happened to me . |
| 10 | Special mention simply must be make of the members of the Cathedral 's Catholic Mothers group who helped Mrs Roberton with the lynches , and who were perhaps the best of all the many good things that happened to our 1981 Christian Aid programme . |
| 11 | one of the nicest things that happened to me since I 've been widowed is having Neil to look after not only is he an exception |
| 12 | things that happened to them while they were making the African Queen and , they 've turned into a story . |
| 13 | Yes erm now on erm Tuesday as I say we 've got five open races actually Peter , five open races on Tuesday , but erm one of the best erm things that happened to us is that the Pall Mall which is the biggest event erm in erm March , erm that 's being sponsored now by one of the track bookmakers called Max Thomas and the best thing about it is that erm he is erm putting in so much prize money with the major the supporting opens on our gala night , that erm there 's not a race worth in the open race , there 's not worth less than two hundred and erm there 's three races worth five hundred pounds each to the winner and the big race is worth five thousand so that 's an early erm plug for to keep in your diary , like the Pall Mall which is March the twenty third . |
| 14 | You may be interested in an event that happened to me after our Remembrance Service at East Kirkby early this July . |
| 15 | Erm , we hear a lot about the holocaust that happened to the Jews in the second world war but not so many people know a lot about the holocaust that has happened to women over centuries and centuries where millions of women were burnt as witches , but er , just because they were women ! |
| 16 | So you feel the same enlightenment that happened to Dylan has also befallen you ? |
| 17 | Actually Christine normal size twelve dress that happened to be a full dress . |
| 18 | It was the best thing that happened to her . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | That was the puzzling thing that happened to Peggy Pringle , who was nearly nine years old and just longed to join the Pack to which her friends belonged . |
| 21 | ‘ Same thing that happened to Daniel , I expect . ’ |
| 22 | The worst thing that happened to me was that I was moved to another hut on the Waaf site and found myself amongst a very superior set of girls who worked in Radar . |
| 23 | This college seemed as if it was going to be the best thing that happened to me . |
| 24 | Which was probably the best thing that happened to him . |
| 25 | Ask them : What was the most surprising thing that happened to you when you started working on the buses/in the shop/in the hospital/in the school ? |
| 26 | I meant what 's worrying you as well as the awful thing that happened to your father … ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Do you ever think about that thing that happened to us in the park ? |
| 28 | About the most exciting thing that happened to me was knocking some ink over . |
| 29 | I can remember that the most memorable thing that happened to me was when it was Sports day . |
| 30 | The best thing that happened to him was when he married in Australia at the age of 21 . |