Example sentences of "happened to me [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so .
2 I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed .
3 I mean in a way I think it 's probably the best thing that 's happened to me for a while cos I could see myself see the thing is I can I was n't ever planning to be here for even six months .
4 This is not always the case , though — I once had a kestrel that I 'd decided from its plumage was a male and it turned out to be a female , and although this has never happened to me with a barn owl , I know people who 've made that mistake .
5 I have , on occasion , bought sticks of pastel which have crumbled into pieces when I removed the paper wrapper — this has NEVER happened to me with Schmincke pastels .
6 And I can , the number of times this has happened to me with school video machines
7 He said : ‘ It was the worst thing that 's ever happened to me in my whole life .
8 At the time of writing I was too taken up with the present to make any but the vaguest connection with what had happened to me in the past .
9 What has happened to me in the group is that my own perceptions of myself and others have been modified by group norms , which may only be mine marginally .
10 Find Sophie again , because something was happening there that has n't happened to me in a hell of a long time .
11 This is the worst thing that 's happened to me in all my life ! ’
12 Everything of importance has always happened to me in the autumn , every new departure has always presented itself within a dying context .
13 I need time and space not just to get over the appalling things which have happened to me in which you do not seem to show much interest but also to think through where the two of us are at .
14 I had to accept what had happened to me in the past before I could even begin to accept the changes in my life .
15 ‘ I think this is the nicest thing that 's happened to me in England , ’ said Julia with real contentment .
16 This is the most important thing that 's ever happened to me in my life — ’
17 It 's never happened to me before either . ’
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