happen on/upon something/someone

Examples of happened

happened

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Yet, as stated above, its discovery happened at a time when it was still not visible.
Little that happened there found its way into classical texts, their epigraphy is typically meager, and so they are known above all by archaeology.
Further information was also given relating to age at first experience, whether the experience was wanted or unwanted, and whether the experience had happened repeatedly.
Eight women (20 %) in this group thought it unlikely that their pregnancies would be discovered, but didn't mind if this happened.
But what has happened with this aesthetic, ecological concern is that it has been elevated to the status of a moral absolute.
This has served as a benchmark for what happened when the challenge of dementia care arose.
It happened mainly in clarification exchanges (when users sometimes formulated their queries more than once).
This happened as a consequence of parasites adapting to hosts from different geographical regions and under variable environmental conditions.
There seems to be no settled agreement about what happened, let alone why it matters.
This also happened in the late 1970s when construction of the natural gas network was delegated to the state-owned oil and gas utility.
This had happened by the time of the appearance of two-word utterances, and priority was then given to noting down new utterances.
This might have happened repeatedly in the millennia that followed.
How frequently this happened and what degree of complexity resulted depended upon the composition of the offspring groups and the workings of mortality.
Eventually, the opponents had to capitulate in all three countries, but the manner in which this happened was not the same.
The sentiment, the meaning, the lyrics, the rhythm, just happened.
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