Example sentences of "[pron] happened to be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I happened to be fluent in French , I was promoted 11 months later to loan officer and assigned to the French-speaking Arab countries of North Africa , where I made my first international calls . |
| 2 | Over the past two centuries the ships employed have ranged from totally unsuitable ones , which happened to be available at the time , to , less commonly , purpose-built vessels incorporating the most sophisticated technology of the day . ’ |
| 3 | The spine was so long and thick that Hawkbit , who happened to be close by , woke Speedwell to have a look at it . |
| 4 | The Belgian authorities immediately commenced an investigation with the active participation of the UK accredited representative , Geoffrey Wilkinson ( who happened to be top of the list at the time ) , and his team of advisers comprising Geoffrey Feltham , who subsequently took over as head of the AIB engineering section , Jimmy Lett and the RAF consultant pathologists who normally worked with AIB . |
| 5 | But one happened to be free for a couple of hours along with the picture editor who cut Nicola 's last report . |
| 6 | Nylons for the women , Coke for the kids and guns for the men to go on fighting ‘ Germins ’ or ‘ Reds ’ or whoever happened to be next in the firing line , that was William 's grandad 's uncluttered view of world history . |
| 7 | After about 9 days at Gary and Kaye 's we moved to Caroline Lock 's ; she has a small flat under the house , and it happened to be vacant for a week . |
| 8 | As has been seen , the choice of Pétain to command at Verdun was made less because of his qualities than because he happened to be available at the moment . |
| 9 | Ian was not over-bright , but he happened to be popular with the other boys as he was a good footballer and did quite well at sports generally . |