Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was wet on the ground , + I slipped , but unfortunately the same bench that I mentioned previously happened to be in my way again . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The worst had already happened to her . |
| 6 | That small problem solved itself readily : one door stood open with Bruce Davidson leaning on the side in a careful presentation of a man who had just happened to be passing . |
| 7 | But suppose that nearly all the entries had just happened to be nasty . |
| 8 | When all the time I had actually been with him I had always realized he was the type to make a pass at the nearest girl with his last gasp , and I had just happened to be that girl . |
| 9 | Instances of police racial harassment which had always happened to other people , were now happening to us . |
| 10 | Nothing like this had ever happened to me before and I was determined to make a swift counterattack . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | I thought I had just about run the gamut of sexual experiences , but nothing like this had ever happened to me before . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This was the strangest thing that had ever happened to her ; he had hurt her at the beginning , but now that was gone . |
| 16 | Best thing that had ever happened to him , Penny . |
| 17 | That kiss had been so bewildering , so utterly unlike anything that had ever happened to her in all her twenty-four years . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Nothing even remotely like this had ever happened to her before , and she did n't like it . |
| 20 | For the next moment he was kissing her and she was instantly realising that nothing quite so exciting had ever happened to her before . |
| 21 | Nothing like this had ever happened to her before , and she should have been afraid . |
| 22 | That had indeed happened to him once : when very young . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This , surely , was what had actually happened to Adam Verne-Smith . |
| 25 | He was mystified by this phenomenon ; it had never happened to him before , so he took it as a kind of omen . |
| 26 | It had never happened to him in his life before . |
| 27 | This had never happened to her before , and she was dumbfounded that , in the course of a few seconds , her life could change so much . |
| 28 | Except that , ironically , it had never happened to him then . |
| 29 | It had never happened to him before . |
| 30 | One of those old elusive memories from the back of my brain returned to baffle me — a memory of something that had never happened to me . |