Sentence examples for that previously happened from inspiring English sources

After all, Clinton did once do this thing (running for president), and we remember how that thing went (doubleplusungood), and damned if this new thing (running for president again) doesn't remind us of that other thing that previously happened.

A day after two No. 15 seeds made history and advanced to the next round -- something that previously happened just four other times in the history of the NCAA Tournament -- every high seed moved on to the Sweet 16.

That previously happened only once in the category's history -- in 1989.

Mr Studham said: "The tactics employed by Jardine roused intense passions, as they were so out of accord with anything that had previously happened on the cricket field.

In effect, they're seeing these users' status updates without being able to see their profiles — something that hasn't previously happened on Facebook, at least not until very recently.

It relates to something that has already happened, with the implication that it had previously happened elsewhere.

French is a very simple, clear language and what had previously happened was that writers tried to do acrobatics with words to capture all the ambiguities and complexities of Shakespeare's vocabulary.

It previously happened three times.

And when that one person helped me, it was such a high that all the negative stuff that happened previously was just washed away.

"We'd had very heavy rain all morning and flooding seemed likely, but that had happened previously and we'd been OK," he explains.

"I would go so far as to say that while we've been able to pass laws against gestation crates that are very important, this announcement by McDonald's today does more to put the writing on the wall for the pork industry than anything that's happened previously," said Paul Shapiro, senior director for farm animal protection at the Humane Society.