Example sentences of "[adj -est] thing that [modal v] [verb] happened " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worst thing that could have happened was … nothing . ’ |
| 2 | Hatch said it : Jack Stone was the worst thing that could have happened to Chrissie . ’ |
| 3 | If it did n't come off , the worst thing that could have happened is that it would have taken a few years to move him out . ’ |
| 4 | Aye oh , this was the greatest thing the greatest thing that could have happened to the people . |
| 5 | It was the best thing that could have happened to him — he was out of the way of everybody . |
| 6 | ‘ Andy , that 's the best thing that could have happened to you . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ ANDY THAT 'S the best thing that could have happened to you . ’ |
| 8 | With hindsight , it was probably the best thing that could have happened to him , otherwise he would no doubt have ended up as a Bomber Pilot , and no-one knows better than I what a dead-end occupation that was . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps England winning is the best thing that could have happened to South African rugby . |
| 10 | I was angry as hell at the time and disappointed , too , for this was a strongly Labour-controlled council , but looking back now I realize that this was the best thing that could have happened to the group , for now we could present ourselves to the people of Rotherham as a genuine minority with a grievance . |
| 11 | ‘ Nothing to be sorry for ; it 's the best thing that could have happened . |
| 12 | In many ways the results are the best thing that could have happened and all is certainly not lost . |
| 13 | But , says WAYNE SHELFORD , much as it hurts , defeat was the best thing that could have happened … |
| 14 | Perhaps it 's the best thing that could have happened . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's the best thing that could have happened , ’ says Barclay , who guided Pat Cash to the senior Wimbledon crown . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's the best thing that could have happened , ’ says Barclay , w ho guided pat Cash to the senior Wimbledon crown . |
| 17 | The best thing that could have happened to IBM was to be broken up a decade or more ago . |
| 18 | best thing that could have happened |
| 19 | ‘ Those three years were the best thing that could have happened to me . |
| 20 | It 's the best thing that could have happened to the pair of ‘ em . |
| 21 | But , guitarist Bruce Watson proclaims : ‘ Being dropped by Phonogram was the best thing that could have happened to us . |
| 22 | ‘ Best thing that could have happened , ’ said club captain Bill Logan , an eye specialist at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast . |
| 23 | He declared that the ANC and its allies wanted " peace and democracy " and that " if the government … responds in the same spirit , our action will have been the best thing that could have happened to the negotiations process " . |