Example sentences of "[adv] happened to him " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Best thing that had ever happened to him , Penny . |
| 4 | If he does n't turn up at his yard in the morning I 'll believe something 's really happened to him . |
| 5 | That had indeed happened to him once : when very young . |
| 6 | He was mystified by this phenomenon ; it had never happened to him before , so he took it as a kind of omen . |
| 7 | It had never happened to him in his life before . |
| 8 | Except that , ironically , it had never happened to him then . |
| 9 | It had never happened to him before . |
| 10 | There was no way he could be remembering that experience of running — of the joy and the pain and the total , ultimate effort — unless it had actually happened to him . |