Example sentences of "[that] [adv] happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | TEARDROP EXPLODES Vox Teardrop & Phantom XII Looking cool is something that rarely happens to me these days , but strapping on either of these reissued Vox guitars it 's hard to tell if it 's grey hairs or ice … |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The bombardier beetle 's ancestors simply pressed into different service chemicals that already happened to be around . |
| 5 | As with the intertidal communities , coral reefs flourish in regions that just happen to be especially favoured . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me ! ) . |
| 8 | It was the best thing that ever happened to me , really , to be asked by my hero . |
| 9 | He now has four children , and insists that having kids early ‘ was the greatest thing that ever happened to me . |
| 10 | Kathy : Scott is the best thing that ever happened to us . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Loving you was the best thing that ever happened to me : I could never go with anyone else . |
| 13 | I know it 's the best thing that ever happened to me . |
| 14 | I 've spent thirty years as a Company Shock Trooper , and IMC 's the best thing that ever happened to me . |
| 15 | ‘ Cancer best thing that ever happened to me ’ |
| 16 | NEW Zealander Mary-Jane Hilton means every word when she says cancer was the best thing that ever happened to her . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | I just had to keep telling myself it would all be worthwhile for both of us : one day she would be flying free , which is not something that always happens to birds of prey bred in captivity . |
| 20 | Carey may be contested , as the Times , the Institute of Directors , Nicholas Fairbairn MP et al have been quick to attempt , but there is surely nothing curious in the head of a Christian church saying there are matters of greater moral significance than making money — unless by curious is meant the fact that Carey is head of a Christian church that also happens to be the established church of the realm . |
| 21 | The effect of having a baby had also put some of them off sex altogether for a while , which is something that also happens to older mothers . |
| 22 | How can a child feel able to tell , and have confidence in those who say they have their ‘ best interests ’ in mind , when the person they have named as their abuser is to be involved in everything that then happens to them ? |
| 23 | 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 . |