Example sentences of "[pron] had [adv] happen to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Instances of police racial harassment which had always happened to other people , were now happening to us . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He was mystified by this phenomenon ; it had never happened to him before , so he took it as a kind of omen . |
| 5 | It had never happened to him in his life before . |
| 6 | Except that , ironically , it had never happened to him then . |
| 7 | It had never happened to him before . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | This , surely , was what had actually happened to Adam Verne-Smith . |