Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] happen to " 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 | 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 . |
5 | If he does n't turn up at his yard in the morning I 'll believe something 's really happened to him . |
6 | And it has just happened to Kate Moss at the tender age of 18 . |
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 was mystified by this phenomenon ; it had never happened to him before , so he took it as a kind of omen . |
9 | It had never happened to him in his life before . |
10 | Except that , ironically , it had never happened to him then . |
11 | It had never happened to him before . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 ? |
15 | It 's just happened to er you 're gon na have to get some what they call it ? |
16 | It 's the first time it 's ever happened to me , you see , and I 'm not in the least afraid any more . " |
17 | ‘ It 's never happened to me before , ’ gasped an incredulous Cummins . |
18 | It 's never happened to me before either . ’ |
19 | I think the thing that occurs to me , erm , they do n't always know , erm , what has just happened to you . |
20 | Like my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon , before considering trust status may I refer to what has already happened to his constituents and to all the other residents in the Basildon and Thurrock health authority . |
21 | The primary aims are to establish an analytical framework in which the effects of ownership changes on corporate behaviour and performance can be modelled ; to compare what has actually happened to the organisation of nationalised and denationalised firms in France and Britain : and to devise appropriate tools and data sets for later empirical and econometric investigation . |
22 | What has actually happened to them is not always clear from the balance sheet . |
23 | What has actually happened to them is not always clear from the balance sheet . |
24 | This , surely , was what had actually happened to Adam Verne-Smith . |