Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] happened to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is that what it is– ’ Or if I was to see the doctor and my girlfriend happened to be seeing the doctor as well , this was just an excuse , according to them , for us to be together . |
| 2 | ‘ It would cause endless difficulties if their decision happened to be misplaced , dozy or ill thought-out . ’ |
| 3 | The church had been chosen simply because its priest happened to be a friend of Eliot 's solicitor , who was also " best man " . |
| 4 | He 'd then possibly forgotten these dreams or fantasies and then when the stimulus of feeling something on the back of his neck happened to him whilst asleep , suddenly the fantasy came back , all as a piece as it were , and it occurred to me that your dream about driving off viaducts might be caused by being asleep , having one of these falling experiences , then relating it to previous thoughts you 'd had , you know on the freeway or something , oh my God , how awful it would be if I , if I drove off that bend below , do you know what I mean ? |
| 5 | Hoomey , in the next desk , was yawning , having sat up late to watch the horror film , and had a comic open on his desk which he was reading whenever his eyes happened to be open . |
| 6 | The ringing in his ears happened to be a bare half tone below the key in which he hummed music to himself . |
| 7 | Vologsky had constantly reassured himself that the repeated refusals were simply because his applications happened to be made at an inopportune moment . |
| 8 | His father happened to be passing , shortly after the attack , but when he went to help , he did n't recognise his own son . |