Example sentences of "[adj] be [adv] [pron] happened to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is exactly what happened to the London Regional Team when Divisional Managing Director , Peter Kelly , agreed to an evening of Tenpin Bowling at Streatham 's ‘ MEGABOWL ’ . |
| 2 | The irony of this statement would not have been lost on any Ghanaian journalist working in the period under Nkrumah from 1957 to 1966 , for this was exactly what happened to Ghana 's newspapers : they became sycophantic , uncritical mouthpieces for the president and his view of that country , Africa and the world . |
| 3 | But that is just what happened to fusion research in the United States toward the end of the 1950's . |
| 4 | That is exactly what happened to her last year but then Ms. Clayton is no ordinary girl . |
| 5 | That is exactly what happened to her last year but then Ms. Clayton is no ordinary girl . |
| 6 | That 's exactly what happened to me , three years ago , when the largest company in the United Kingdom , British Petroleum , took me on to run a new venture . |
| 7 | Well , that 's exactly what happened to Woodrow Wilson . |
| 8 | That 's just what happened to Lincoln Turbine Service , when at the eleventh hour Energy Minister Tim Eggar had to cancel his trip to Aberdeen in order to be in London for the publication of the Trade & Industry Select Committee 's Energy Report . |
| 9 | And that 's just what happened to me . |