Example sentences of "it happened to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | It happened to us |
| 2 | It happened to me |
| 3 | It happened to me in Watford many years ago . |
| 4 | The reason why absenteeism was non-existent on Thursdays was not just because it happened to be pay day . |
| 5 | But tonight , although she had left it open on many other nights , it happened to be locked . |
| 6 | When it happened to me I just could not believe it . |
| 7 | No , it was a piece I am very fond of and it happened to be in quite a few programmes at that time . |
| 8 | ( Foreigners , when it happened to them , sometimes considered it a manifestation of xenophobia ; but such evidence as there is suggests it was indiscriminate , an endemic propensity to sudden rigour which overcame individuals from time to time and afflicted everyone in contact with the official thus possessed . ) |
| 9 | It was a subjective , not an objective view ; but it happened to be the attitude of a man living in the kingdom which harboured Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 10 | Would n't you want to do something about it if it happened to one of your friends ? ’ |
| 11 | Exactly the same thing had happened in pop music and now it happened to art — hype , control , block-buying . |
| 12 | But it happened to be true . ’ |
| 13 | How it happened to me . |
| 14 | Suppose , for the sake of argument , it happened to be the case that marriage weakened the power of a priest to influence his flock , say because it occupied a large proportion of his time and attention . |
| 15 | It happened to Sarge . |
| 16 | It happened to these two people , who both fortunately had taken out a Personal Accident Plan with Sun Alliance . |
| 17 | It happened to these people |
| 18 | If it happened to be the first Sunday in the month my mother , my Aunt Gertrude and my two sisters ( after their respective confirmations ) went to early service — 7 o'clock Holy Communion at the Parish Church of St. Martin 's . |
| 19 | It happened to me on one occasion when I was about ten . |
| 20 | My Dad would murder me if it happened to me . ’ |
| 21 | It happened to be true . |
| 22 | It happened to be my birthday — I 've never had or am likely to have a better birthday dinner , I do n't mind being a year older every year for this ! |
| 23 | It happened to me |
| 24 | • It happened to me |
| 25 | It happened to me |
| 26 | It happened to me |
| 27 | On the prototype a 100VA transformer , which was unnecessarily big , but because it happened to be standing on the shelf , was used . |
| 28 | Typically , neither Frank nor Jack knew too much about the prostate gland , nor that it could be affected by disease , until it happened to them . |
| 29 | No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week . |
| 30 | It happened to me as a player at Everton with Gordon Lee 15 years ago . |