Example sentences of "[adv] happened to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | That small problem solved itself readily : one door stood open with Bruce Davidson leaning on the side in a careful presentation of a man who had just happened to be passing . |
| 3 | But suppose that nearly all the entries had just happened to be nasty . |
| 4 | And it has just happened to Kate Moss at the tender age of 18 . |
| 5 | When all the time I had actually been with him I had always realized he was the type to make a pass at the nearest girl with his last gasp , and I had just happened to be that girl . |
| 6 | It was just happened to be spotted by Richard , fortunately , whilst he was erm , between jobs and actually being up a steps , walked in a saw the smoke coming out of one of the er , main switch areas . |
| 7 | And er we were on that for about an hour or so and then they got rid of the the badly injured were taken off then and put on the Therris it 's support vessel that was Just happened to be there at the time . |
| 8 | I think the thing that occurs to me , erm , they do n't always know , erm , what has just happened to you . |
| 9 | It 's just happened to er you 're gon na have to get some what they call it ? |
| 10 | That 's already happened to half my set . ’ |
| 11 | This had already happened to many birds of prey and there were still farmers around who believed that eagles took live lambs , though the evidence was very slight . |
| 12 | The worst had already happened to her . |
| 13 | Like my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon , before considering trust status may I refer to what has already happened to his constituents and to all the other residents in the Basildon and Thurrock health authority . |
| 14 | But the ‘ what might happen ’ has already happened to Jesus so we have nothing to fear . |
| 15 | But it was encouraging that some journalists were genuinely interested in trying to help and did feel that what had happened to John could have easily happened to them . |
| 16 | " Well , I 'm not quite sure that she might n't burst into tears , or perhaps suddenly take all her clothes off " This had actually once happened to Richard at Nestor and Sage , the investment counsellors where he worked . |
| 17 | Instances of police racial harassment which had always happened to other people , were now happening to us . |
| 18 | Everything of importance has always happened to me in the autumn , every new departure has always presented itself within a dying context . |
| 19 | Nothing like this had ever happened to me before and I was determined to make a swift counterattack . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | I thought I had just about run the gamut of sexual experiences , but nothing like this had ever happened to me before . |
| 24 | Nothing like this has ever happened to me before . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ It was the worst thing that 's ever happened to me in my whole life . |
| 27 | This was the strangest thing that had ever happened to her ; he had hurt her at the beginning , but now that was gone . |
| 28 | Best thing that had ever happened to him , Penny . |
| 29 | It 's the first time it 's ever happened to me , you see , and I 'm not in the least afraid any more . " |
| 30 | ( 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 … ? |