Example sentences of "something that happened " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Wipe your nose first , and then I 'll tell you something that happened to me . |
| 2 | With a sexual history spanning more than twenty years and including fifty or sixty different partners , he regarded VD as something that happened to other people , and was somewhat surprised to develop a mild urethral discharge five weeks after first sleeping with his new girl-friend , Angela , who was younger than him and relatively sexually inexperienced . |
| 3 | If randomized control and experimental groups end up substantially different , something that happened to them in the experiment almost certainly caused this . |
| 4 | You waste time in the present lamenting over something that happened in the past . |
| 5 | You start by telling them a short story — something that happened to you as you came to work , something you heard on the news . |
| 6 | It seemed possible that childhood cancer was therefore something that happened naturally , was something that was part of the child 's genetic make-up , its chromosomes . |
| 7 | I kept thinking to myself , Typical Jamila , that 's exactly what she would do , as if this were something that happened every day . |
| 8 | The only other significant event of the evening was something that happened between Eva and Shadwell at the far end of the restaurant , beside the toilet . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , but that 's just something that happened in the outside world . |
| 10 | It was just something that happened . |
| 11 | It was just something that happened . |
| 12 | We have an uncompromising attitude sadly lacking in a lot of what 's coming out at the moment , which is partly to do with not being 18 or 19-year-olds who were really into something that happened fairly recently , whose major motivation is to try and copy that somehow . |
| 13 | By now I had a baby sister Clare , and it was something that happened to her which helped to shape my destiny and provided the first step on my road to Koraloona . |
| 14 | ‘ Let's not argue about something that happened over thirty years ago , ’ Adam said finally . |
| 15 | But er unfortunately , this is something that happened in the past and the government have been prosecuted for it , they 've been found guilty , but Blackpool 's name has been dragged way down with them . |
| 16 | And perhaps ( I 'm being vain ) it was something that happened when Caroline was going on in her silly woman-of-advanced-ideas way — just a look between us . |
| 17 | ‘ I would n't like to say that there is not such a thing as black magic but I know of a coincidence , or something that happened regularly . |
| 18 | ‘ I did n't see the relevance of something that happened a long time ago . |
| 19 | For her , war was something that happened in other people 's lives , and even the most recent conflicts had failed to win her to the view that war could be , upon occasions , both right and just . |
| 20 | They do n't haunt because they want to wring their hands and wail about something that happened hundreds of years ago . |
| 21 | This poem describes something that happened to the poet . |
| 22 | Choose one of the beginnings that reminds you of something that happened to you . |
| 23 | The star of the Professionals went on : ‘ Why you want to write about something that happened in 1977 I do n't know . |
| 24 | CATHERINE Robbie , if you 've just come back here to give me a fright because of something that happened ages ago , you 're mad . |
| 25 | I 've always had better things to do with my time than to plot hypothetical revenge for something that happened ten years ago ! ’ she snapped . |
| 26 | ‘ Do you really believe I 'd have blown a career I loved just to get even with you for something that happened ten years ago ? |
| 27 | But its advocates fail to mention that , in the first place , most disabilities occur after birth from accidents or illness ; secondly , much illness and disability in newborn babies is not inherited , but is the result of something that happened during pregnancy ; and thirdly , that medicine is now moving towards a gene-oriented approach to reproduction and health an approach which increases the occasions for screening and raises the questions , who shall decide who s ’ fit to breed ’ , with which genes , and who 's ’ fit ’ to be born ? |
| 28 | I left Gallifrey because I was bored , and because of something that happened , a long time ago … ’ |
| 29 | I mean , for instance , in my dreams er cars have taken on a very distinct personal symbolism that has really nothing to do with what you might think , because of personal experiences of mine , and I now know that whenever I dream about cars it always always has this but that 's because of something that happened to me and because of my personal erm kind of experiences , so cars have become a dream symbol . |
| 30 | Now a day 's residue is some association which relates the manifest content usually to what happened to you that day , and often i they 're very oft it 's often that the day 's residue is built into the manifest dream , so it 's quite obvious , you had this dream because of something that happened to you on that day . |