Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] happened to be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So a Primary school headmaster , for instance , could find his school offering movement experience to children who had female teachers to the neglect of those children who were unfortunate enough to have a man as their teacher , and similarly , Movement and Drama appeared as a subject on the time-table in our Secondary schools where there happened to be a woman in the P.E . |
| 2 | We would n't have got on to it except it happened to be a post office where the little old lady is careful and takes a note of the numbers of anything over a fiver . |
| 3 | And she happened to be a Christian . |
| 4 | ‘ And imagine what it must have been like before all those modern office ‘ towers ’ were built to dwarf it — especially if you happened to be a traitor . |
| 5 | ‘ Unless they happened to be a part of it . ’ |
| 6 | But this was achieved only because she happened to be a good listener , and , after a few leading questions about his earlier life in the high , mountainous country of the South Island , he talked almost non-stop . |
| 7 | Are they there for some special purpose or just because there happened to be a nail on the wall for them to hang on ? |