Example sentences of "that [adv] happened [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is probable that little happened for later , several members collectively complained about ‘ one insufferably lazy and inattentive caddie who has no idea how to make a tee ! ’ |
| 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 | erm and as you 'll be able to see from my introduction make do and mend was n't something that suddenly happened in nineteen thirty nine there were sections of society in which make do and mend was a permanent and not not particularly erm welcome fact of life . |
| 5 | The bombardier beetle 's ancestors simply pressed into different service chemicals that already happened to be around . |
| 6 | The drama depicted is something that once happened in front of the canvas — where the painter claimed to be nature ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It 's the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me ! ) . |
| 9 | It was the best thing that ever happened to me , really , to be asked by my hero . |
| 10 | He now has four children , and insists that having kids early ‘ was the greatest thing that ever happened to me . |
| 11 | Kathy : Scott is the best thing that ever happened to us . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Loving you was the best thing that ever happened to me : I could never go with anyone else . |
| 14 | I know it 's the best thing that ever happened to me . |
| 15 | I 've spent thirty years as a Company Shock Trooper , and IMC 's the best thing that ever happened to me . |
| 16 | ‘ Cancer best thing that ever happened to me ’ |
| 17 | NEW Zealander Mary-Jane Hilton means every word when she says cancer was the best thing that ever happened to her . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | But this week 's award goes to MR CLIFF RICHARD , for his assertion that , ‘ I could do a nude video and it would be the biggest thing that ever happened in Britain . ’ |
| 21 | I 'm the biggest thing that ever happened in sports . |
| 22 | But branches need a facility , it 's not about in-fighting , it 's about something that actually happened within my branch , I 'd like to add that we won the appeal , when the branch went through it raised two questions , we won one , we lost one . |
| 23 | Kelly and Sear predict that things should actually improve over the next few months as the northern hemisphere continues to recover from the 0.5°C cooling that actually happened in June last year . |
| 24 | However , if you pursue the associations and begin to delve into the latent content , what you often find is that those day 's residues , which are specific to that day , as Theresa was saying , relate to more general erm situations , or indeed to things that actually happened in the past which that particular aspect of that particular day might remind you of . |
| 25 | 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 . |