Example sentences of "ever happened to " in BNC.

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1 Nothing like this had ever happened to me before and I was determined to make a swift counterattack .
2 She was anxious , for no such thing has ever happened to her before , her memory was always clear and rounded as a bell-note and utterly reliable .
3 It had taken only a moment of time ; and in a certain sense everything else that had ever happened to me was insignificant in comparison .
4 The little horse was the most extraordinary thing that had ever happened to him in all his life , appearing like that in the torchlight and looking at him even before it was wholly born , as if to say , ‘ Hi , mate . ’
5 I thought I had just about run the gamut of sexual experiences , but nothing like this had ever happened to me before .
6 Nothing like this has ever happened to me before . ’
7 Between exercises he tried to keep his mind occupied in a number of ways : reciting every poem he could ever remember , pretending to dictate his autobiography to an invisible stenographer so that he could go over everything that had ever happened to him in his twenty-one years .
8 He said : ‘ It was the worst thing that 's ever happened to me in my whole life .
9 This was the strangest thing that had ever happened to her ; he had hurt her at the beginning , but now that was gone .
10 Best thing that had ever happened to him , Penny .
11 It 's the first time it 's ever happened to me , you see , and I 'm not in the least afraid any more . "
12 ( Rapidly ) Has it ever happened to you that all of a sudden and for no reason at all you have n't the faintest idea how to spell the word — " wife " — or " house " — because when you write it down you just ca n't remember ever having seen those letters in that order before … ?
13 But this is the most flattering thing that has ever happened to Howard !
14 ‘ Every day we have women come to us in shock , saying ‘ Nothing like this has ever happened to me before .
15 This is the most embarrassing thing that 's ever happened to me .
16 That kiss had been so bewildering , so utterly unlike anything that had ever happened to her in all her twenty-four years .
17 Her purchase by the B. J. Norsk Forsking of Larvik for seismographical work in the Bellingshausen Sea almost due south of the Horn was , as Ward put it , ‘ just about the very first good thin' that had ever happened to her , ’ even if it was a slightly clandestine operation .
18 Nothing even remotely like this had ever happened to her before , and she did n't like it .
19 Not fool enough to stand aside and watch the best thing that 's ever happened to me wither away because I 'm too scared to let it put down roots .
20 This is the most important thing that 's ever happened to me in my life — ’
21 Just the chance to transcribe the manuscripts was the most fantastic luck , the greatest thing that 's ever happened to me .
22 ‘ Has anything ever happened to the messengers ? ’
23 In fact it 's probably the most exciting thing that 's ever happened to me . ’
24 Nothing like that has ever happened to me before . ’
25 I 'm not sure that this has ever happened to me before .
26 For the next moment he was kissing her and she was instantly realising that nothing quite so exciting had ever happened to her before .
27 Nothing like this had ever happened to her before , and she should have been afraid .
28 If this has ever happened to you then Thames police are offering a golden opportunity to improve your driving .
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