Example sentences of "thing that [adv] happened " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike Wilkinson did n't choose to become a press photographer — it was one of those things that just happened . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | The only thing that really happened was that my mum got a divorce in 1972 on the grounds that he had sexually assaulted me and there was mental cruelty to her . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It 's the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me ! ) . |
| 7 | She did n't try overhard , she just wanted to let me know I was secure with her , that the break-up of my parents ' marriage was n't the worst thing that ever happened , and that she had enough love to cover us all . |
| 8 | It was the best thing that ever happened to me , really , to be asked by my hero . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 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 | Like all old miners , he remembered the coming of the pit baths , they were the best thing that ever happened , he said . |
| 14 | And it was a wicked cowardice thing that ever happened |
| 15 | I 'm the biggest thing that ever happened in sports . |
| 16 | Loving you was the best thing that ever happened to me : I could never go with anyone else . |
| 17 | I know it 's the best thing that ever happened to me . |
| 18 | I 've spent thirty years as a Company Shock Trooper , and IMC 's the best thing that ever happened to me . |
| 19 | ‘ Cancer best thing that ever happened to me ’ |
| 20 | NEW Zealander Mary-Jane Hilton means every word when she says cancer was the best thing that ever happened to her . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |