Example sentences of "[adv] happened to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | I think the thing that occurs to me , erm , they do n't always know , erm , what has just happened to you . |
| 3 | The worst had already happened to her . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Everything of importance has always happened to me in the autumn , every new departure has always presented itself within a dying context . |
| 7 | Nothing like this had ever happened to me before and I was determined to make a swift counterattack . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I thought I had just about run the gamut of sexual experiences , but nothing like this had ever happened to me before . |
| 10 | Nothing like this has ever happened to me before . ’ |
| 11 | He said : ‘ It was the worst thing that 's ever happened to me in my whole life . |
| 12 | It 's the first time it 's ever happened to me , you see , and I 'm not in the least afraid any more . " |
| 13 | ‘ Every day we have women come to us in shock , saying ‘ Nothing like this has ever happened to me before . |
| 14 | This is the most embarrassing thing that 's ever happened to me . |
| 15 | Not fool enough to stand aside and watch the best thing that 's ever happened to me wither away because I 'm too scared to let it put down roots . |
| 16 | This is the most important thing that 's ever happened to me in my life — ’ |
| 17 | Just the chance to transcribe the manuscripts was the most fantastic luck , the greatest thing that 's ever happened to me . |
| 18 | In fact it 's probably the most exciting thing that 's ever happened to me . ’ |
| 19 | Nothing like that has ever happened to me before . ’ |
| 20 | I 'm not sure that this has ever happened to me before . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This was the strangest thing that had ever happened to her ; he had hurt her at the beginning , but now that was gone . |
| 23 | That kiss had been so bewildering , so utterly unlike anything that had ever happened to her in all her twenty-four years . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Nothing even remotely like this had ever happened to her before , and she did n't like it . |
| 26 | For the next moment he was kissing her and she was instantly realising that nothing quite so exciting had ever happened to her before . |
| 27 | Nothing like this had ever happened to her before , and she should have been afraid . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Best thing that had ever happened to him , Penny . |