Example sentences of "thing happened [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought if you became a Christian only good things happened to you . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Of course , that makes it all sadder and sicker that these things happened to Peter , and that he 's doing what he 's doing now . |
| 3 | But during the week immediately following the meeting two fortuitous things happened to the chemists that at the time looked too good opportunities to miss . |
| 4 | Analysis is a very slow process and it takes a long time to weed through the past and try to discover what things happened to you that affected you . |
| 5 | Awful things happened to people on the tube . |
| 6 | And if either of these things happened to her then Odette and Liam would be separated and taken away to the work-house , Odette with her heart in pieces and her nerves in tatters , Liam retreating so far into that anxious silence of his that nothing would ever bring him out again . |
| 7 | They had really tired of each other and it had become a struggle between them that was slow to surface until the Diamond Dogs tour because a lot of things happened on that tour that they were both very unhappy about . |
| 8 | Her hands had begun to tighten around his neck , when abruptly two things happened at once . |
| 9 | So many things happened over the last two rounds , it 's sometimes hard to remember the first two ; I just know it was Trevino versus Jacklin again in the third round and , of course , they were playing together once more . |
| 10 | The wood floated for many weeks , through the many days at sea many things happened like the strange shape it had formed from being slashed off by the sea . |
| 11 | But some positive things happened in 1982 like the opening of Milton Keynes Central at a cost of £4.5million ; Watton-at-Stone between Stevenage and Hertford North ; and of Watford Stadium on the Watford Junction-Croxley Green branch on 4 December . |
| 12 | Things happened in this period that profoundly influenced sociological thinking in particular , and especially in so far as it related to crime and criminals ; they led to a comprehensive rejection of the most cherished principles of positivist criminology . |
| 13 | Even then , such assessment as there was was lost in Burgessian rhetoric : ‘ Mr Motion does all he can to chronicle those years and years of world without event , in which the interesting things happened in trousers , in pubs , and on paper … |
| 14 | I did n't like hospital at all that time because such strange things happened in the night with nurses coming and going and moving people and giving injections . |
| 15 | But it 's incredible to think that such things happened in them days is n't it really ? |
| 16 | Two important things happened in such systems . |
| 17 | But other things happened within the music industry which effectively took the heat away from The Smiths in the early months of 1984 . |
| 18 | After all that , one of the arms fell off recently , reminding me of the time the same thing happened during a recording of Give Us A Clue . |
| 19 | The thing happened beyond our walls , and is not within my jurisdiction , though the offender may be . |
| 20 | ‘ Funny thing happened about money during the war . |
| 21 | And er the same thing happened about another one . |
| 22 | But a funny thing happened on the way to the polling station . |
| 23 | There was another significant thing happened on the back nine , as well . |
| 24 | A FABULOUS THING HAPPENED ON MY WAY TO THE FORUM |
| 25 | He chose its name from the play A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum , which had helped to save his flagging career . |
| 26 | I proceeded to miss the take — do n't ask me how — and the fact that the same thing happened on the following cast really had me cursing . |
| 27 | Professionally , Crawford 's career was going from strength to strength , and his association with film director Richard Lester continued with A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum . |
| 28 | He set off for Spain in August 1965 to film A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum with director Richard Lester . |
| 29 | Lester was producing for the first time , after his experience with A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum . |
| 30 | Less than 12 months after Steve Pate was pulled out of the Ryder Cup singles on medical grounds much the same thing happened at the recent PGA Cup match at Kildare . |