Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it has just happened to Kate Moss at the tender age of 18 . |
| 2 | I think the thing that occurs to me , erm , they do n't always know , erm , what has just happened to you . |
| 3 | Like my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon , before considering trust status may I refer to what has already happened to his constituents and to all the other residents in the Basildon and Thurrock health authority . |
| 4 | But the ‘ what might happen ’ has already happened to Jesus so we have nothing to fear . |
| 5 | She was anxious , for no such thing has ever happened to her before , her memory was always clear and rounded as a bell-note and utterly reliable . |
| 6 | Nothing like this has ever happened to me before . ’ |
| 7 | But this is the most flattering thing that has ever happened to Howard ! |
| 8 | ‘ Every day we have women come to us in shock , saying ‘ Nothing like this has ever happened to me before . |
| 9 | Nothing like that has ever happened to me before . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm not sure that this has ever happened to me before . |
| 11 | If this has ever happened to you then Thames police are offering a golden opportunity to improve your driving . |
| 12 | Everything of importance has always happened to me in the autumn , every new departure has always presented itself within a dying context . |
| 13 | A similar thing has also happened to a smaller Oranda , but not severely . |
| 14 | When people make up stories , they often start from something that has really happened to them . |
| 15 | And then not an awful lot has really happened to you . |
| 16 | It was wet on the ground , + I slipped , but unfortunately the same bench that I mentioned previously happened to be in my way again . |
| 17 | The primary aims are to establish an analytical framework in which the effects of ownership changes on corporate behaviour and performance can be modelled ; to compare what has actually happened to the organisation of nationalised and denationalised firms in France and Britain : and to devise appropriate tools and data sets for later empirical and econometric investigation . |
| 18 | What has actually happened to them is not always clear from the balance sheet . |
| 19 | What has actually happened to them is not always clear from the balance sheet . |
| 20 | This is not always the case , though — I once had a kestrel that I 'd decided from its plumage was a male and it turned out to be a female , and although this has never happened to me with a barn owl , I know people who 've made that mistake . |
| 21 | I have , on occasion , bought sticks of pastel which have crumbled into pieces when I removed the paper wrapper — this has NEVER happened to me with Schmincke pastels . |
| 22 | This awful thing has never happened to me but I have been in the situation leading up to the attack hundreds of times , in trusting casual acquaintances to walk me home or allowing strange men to come into my house to do repairs . |
| 23 | has never happened to me yet , first dose problems |
| 24 | That has never happened to me before in my career ! ’ |
| 25 | Dysart just happened to be the one she chose . |
| 26 | Unbeknown to Mark , one of the titled politicians present also happened to be an international banker and financial advisor to several US corporations . |
| 27 | But it was encouraging that some journalists were genuinely interested in trying to help and did feel that what had happened to John could have easily happened to them . |
| 28 | I actually feel , there was a time I used to think it would n't happen to me because if I was in that situation I would do this , I would do the next thing and when it did actually happen to me it took me ages to get over |
| 29 | Sue 's skin , thought Marion , Sue 's skin , so why do I feel as if I 'm the one , as if it all happened in my room , as if it had all happened to me ? |
| 30 | This had already happened to many birds of prey and there were still farmers around who believed that eagles took live lambs , though the evidence was very slight . |