Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] happen [prep] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Instances of police racial harassment which had always happened to other people , were now happening to us . |
| 4 | No no that was , that was erm a com a completely er something which had never happened before |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I mean someone who would just sit down and tell you things , as if they had just happened on the way home . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | He drew back , saying it had nearly happened with another girl but she was a Catholic . |
| 9 | He was mystified by this phenomenon ; it had never happened to him before , so he took it as a kind of omen . |
| 10 | It had never happened to him in his life before . |
| 11 | Except that , ironically , it had never happened to him then . |
| 12 | It had never happened to him before . |
| 13 | It had never happened to her — in fact , quite the contrary , she revelled in the build-up to her own entrance , loving the rush of adrenalin that came every time she heard her own music . |
| 14 | Nothing like it had ever happened at UNACO . |
| 15 | It was a very difficult period , because whereas retrenchment and redundancy are now something employees understand and accept , this was the first time it had ever happened in ICI since the war . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | Almost as though it had all happened in another life . |
| 19 | God , it was as if nothing had ever happened between them . |
| 20 | If he had regretted his kiss the evening before , how on earth was he going to view what had just happened between them ? |
| 21 | How dare he look so composed , so unaffected by what had just happened between them , when her own stomach felt as if it were the epicentre of an earthquake ? |
| 22 | Kate told him what had just happened in Jason 's office . |
| 23 | If it might benefit Kirsty for him to know what had really happened between herself and Ryan , would she be justified in breaking her promise ? |
| 24 | He drew her close again and they fell silent , Rachel reflecting on how hard it must have been for David not to have told her what had really happened between himself and her sister , then another thought struck her . |
| 25 | She had become rather confused as to what had actually happened between Thomas and herself . |
| 26 | Patrick had heard various stories and rumours about what had actually happened on the lonely country road from Tipperary town into Soloheadbeg Quarry when a shipment of gelignite — or dynamite — had been intercepted and the guards shot . |
| 27 | This , surely , was what had actually happened to Adam Verne-Smith . |
| 28 | Why must he remind her of what had once happened between them and which now — her heart tightened — could never be removed ? |