Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] happen [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I actually feel , there was a time I used to think it would n't happen to me because if I was in that situation I would do this , I would do the next thing and when it did actually happen to me it took me ages to get over |
2 | He drew back , saying it had nearly happened with another girl but she was a Catholic . |
3 | He was mystified by this phenomenon ; it had never happened to him before , so he took it as a kind of omen . |
4 | It had never happened to him in his life before . |
5 | Except that , ironically , it had never happened to him then . |
6 | It had never happened to him before . |
7 | It had never happened to her — in fact , quite the contrary , she revelled in the build-up to her own entrance , loving the rush of adrenalin that came every time she heard her own music . |
8 | Nothing like it had ever happened at UNACO . |
9 | It was a very difficult period , because whereas retrenchment and redundancy are now something employees understand and accept , this was the first time it had ever happened in ICI since the war . |
10 | There was no way he could be remembering that experience of running — of the joy and the pain and the total , ultimate effort — unless it had actually happened to him . |
11 | Sue 's skin , thought Marion , Sue 's skin , so why do I feel as if I 'm the one , as if it all happened in my room , as if it had all happened to me ? |
12 | Almost as though it had all happened in another life . |