Example sentences of "[conj] [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 Death was something that only happened to other people — except there was the ragged hole that the shadow-voices had opened up in her and Zulei was tearing at it and there was death behind .
3 The bombardier beetle 's ancestors simply pressed into different service chemicals that already happened to be around .
4 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 .
5 It 's the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me ! ) .
6 It was the best thing that ever happened to me , really , to be asked by my hero .
7 He now has four children , and insists that having kids early ‘ was the greatest thing that ever happened to me .
8 Kathy : Scott is the best thing that ever happened to us .
9 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 .
10 Loving you was the best thing that ever happened to me : I could never go with anyone else .
11 I know it 's the best thing that ever happened to me .
12 I 've spent thirty years as a Company Shock Trooper , and IMC 's the best thing that ever happened to me .
13 ‘ Cancer best thing that ever happened to me ’
14 NEW Zealander Mary-Jane Hilton means every word when she says cancer was the best thing that ever happened to her .
15 ‘ 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 .
16 I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could
17 George Felix was surely in a rage , but he was also enjoying being angry , and that was something that never happened to her father , whose rages had made anger such a familiar monster .
18 Look what was threatened and nearly happened to the Falls Women 's Centre , and it 's not just in West Belfast ; the same is happening in Ballybeen on the other side of the city .
19 He had fought the Japanese and also happened to be Communist .
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