Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] happened " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is probable that little happened for later , several members collectively complained about ‘ one insufferably lazy and inattentive caddie who has no idea how to make a tee ! ’ |
| 2 | Meditation was something that only happened east of Suez and although imaging was something I did every time I wrote a book , play or did a drawing , I had not associated it with my cancer . |
| 3 | ‘ Not the usual kind of student 's flat , ’ muttered the Marshal , surprised to find his feet walking on fitted carpet , a thing that only happened to him in the lobbies of hotels he was checking on . |
| 4 | Death was something that only happened to other people — except there was the ragged hole that the shadow-voices had opened up in her and Zulei was tearing at it and there was death behind . |
| 5 | erm and as you 'll be able to see from my introduction make do and mend was n't something that suddenly happened in nineteen thirty nine there were sections of society in which make do and mend was a permanent and not not particularly erm welcome fact of life . |
| 6 | The bombardier beetle 's ancestors simply pressed into different service chemicals that already happened to be around . |
| 7 | What if a mutant gene arose that just happened to have an effect , not upon something obvious like eye colour or curliness of hair , but upon meiosis itself ? |
| 8 | How could he keep something that just happened ? |
| 9 | Mike Wilkinson did n't choose to become a press photographer — it was one of those things that just happened . |
| 10 | It was not an intentional change but one that just happened , unlike Dona who goes to Navron House seeking sanctuary from her married life in London . |
| 11 | Including the last one that just happened . |
| 12 | The drama depicted is something that once happened in front of the canvas — where the painter claimed to be nature ! |
| 13 | My life would have been much poorer without Brownsea Island , and I always think that the National Trust was the best thing that ever happened to me . |
| 14 | It 's the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me ! ) . |
| 15 | She did n't try overhard , she just wanted to let me know I was secure with her , that the break-up of my parents ' marriage was n't the worst thing that ever happened , and that she had enough love to cover us all . |
| 16 | It was the best thing that ever happened to me , really , to be asked by my hero . |
| 17 | But this week 's award goes to MR CLIFF RICHARD , for his assertion that , ‘ I could do a nude video and it would be the biggest thing that ever happened in Britain . ’ |
| 18 | He now has four children , and insists that having kids early ‘ was the greatest thing that ever happened to me . |
| 19 | Kathy : Scott is the best thing that ever happened to us . |
| 20 | The most moving thing that ever happened to them , they say — but secretly I think it is all to do with stealing thunder from the women . |
| 21 | Like all old miners , he remembered the coming of the pit baths , they were the best thing that ever happened , he said . |
| 22 | And it was a wicked cowardice thing that ever happened |
| 23 | I 'm the biggest thing that ever happened in sports . |
| 24 | Loving you was the best thing that ever happened to me : I could never go with anyone else . |
| 25 | I know it 's the best thing that ever happened to me . |
| 26 | I 've spent thirty years as a Company Shock Trooper , and IMC 's the best thing that ever happened to me . |
| 27 | I do n't think that ever happened . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd rather forget that ever happened , ’ she snapped . |
| 29 | I seem to remember my Panini album once to my horror picturing Stewart rather than Harvey , with the blurb along the lines of ‘ looks set to make the 1st team spot his own ’ but I do n't think that ever happened . |
| 30 | ‘ Cancer best thing that ever happened to me ’ |