Example sentences of "[adj] be [pron] happened to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is what happened to Zahira Galiara , a girl of eighteen from Bardoli , a village near Bombay . |
| 2 | We have already seen that this is what happened to ‘ citizenship ’ in 1988 : each of the major parties emphasised those features of the concept which , from their own ideological standpoint , they considered most important . |
| 3 | Not often are authors of BMJ papers arrested by the fraud squad , but this is what happened to the authors of the paper on p 691 . |
| 4 | This is what happened to us when we came to New York . |
| 5 | Mercury vapour form gold burning below , wafted into the flat above , and this is what happened to it 's occupant . |
| 6 | Maybe this was what happened to most people . |
| 7 | This was what happened to women . |
| 8 | That is what happened to Owais Jeevanjee , a nineteen-year-old Asian with a British passport . |
| 9 | That is what happened to Ernst Sicher . |
| 10 | That 's what happened to me . |
| 11 | ‘ Maybe that 's what happened to you in the engine room . |
| 12 | ‘ I reckon he would have pined to death — that 's what happened to his father . |
| 13 | Yeah , primary I think , roundabout primary four or five , cos that 's when they start talking about it , and that 's where you start getting all the the wrong things told to you in the playground , I mean I know that 's what happened to me . |
| 14 | That 's what happened to me |
| 15 | Some pink pills or something but there was all sorts you know hat they used to say put your feet in hot in water , mustard and er fall down the stairs or go on a bus , they used to tell you all sorts of things you know to , and er anyway that 's what happened to me . |
| 16 | The ones not accounted for were in little pockets that were cut off and taken prisoner and I think that 's what happened to Terry . ’ |
| 17 | And that 's what happened to that . |
| 18 | And that er that 's what happened to the 's and they 're still about actually . |
| 19 | Yeah I think that 's what happened to my brother actually . |
| 20 | And that 's what happened to David . |
| 21 | ‘ See , ’ said Renwick pointing to his balding pate , ‘ that 's what happened to me the last time I did n't stop ! ’ |
| 22 | That 's what happened to our drill you see , you 've had apprentice on it ! |
| 23 | Because that 's what happened to Bangladesh . |
| 24 | Cos that 's what happened to Brian , you know when Brian had his Orion nicked ? got stopped in |
| 25 | That 's what happened to me old man in the cleaning business , I mean with you could write your own cheque virtually , but they , they had sort of like a three year , three year back log on painting , they just did n't pay anybody . |
| 26 | And er I really feel that , you know , you can make yourself more bloody trouble cos that 's what happened to Helen next door . |
| 27 | That 's what happened to when he broke his arm . |