Example sentences of "just happen to " in BNC.
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31 | Meanwhile Sir Clifford has engaged a nurse , Mrs Bolton … who just happens to be the village gossip . |
32 | Mine is not an isolated instance , it just happens to be the most famous , because it 's the first time such persecution has been exported to a western country . |
33 | McInally 's agent just happens to be Denis Roache . |
34 | But that 's , but that 's what I mean , they 're making , they 're saying let's make , when the white people make films black and white people watch them , they 're not specifically made for white people , not specifically made for black people , it just happens to be white actors . |
35 | Whereas normally people would have , in the O U P , U K , which just happens to be 6 out of 31 . |
36 | But these just happen to be his , he ca n't ‘ prescribe ’ them ‘ for art ’ ; what he wants to say must come to terms with what the form allows him ; art refuses to be imposed upon , to be dictated to , and Dostoevsky 's dictum will stand . |
37 | Earthworms are the main item in a badger 's diet and cow grazing pastures just happen to be a good source of earthworms . |
38 | As with the intertidal communities , coral reefs flourish in regions that just happen to be especially favoured . |
39 | What is in question is the comfortable argument that socially acceptable forms of work organisation always just happen to be those that are the most efficient . |
40 | You know , just happen to be passing when they 're going out of school . ’ |
41 | ‘ I just happen to be the exception . ’ |
42 | Fil continues : ‘ We just happen to be in this bit … ( much laughter ) … of no money and knowing what it 's like to have no prospects . |
43 | And they just happen to be two of the best tracks . |
44 | And they just happen to be attached to a saint ! |
45 | I was received as a thief , a well-mannered rapist , bucketless car-washer , double-glazing runner , not to mention corrupt informant that some of them tiles is loose , Ma 'm , and we just happen to be in the area with a long ladder so why not call it eighty quid ? |
46 | Very often , these mutually unintelligible and exclusive ethnic cultures just happen to be the same as the groups which common sense tells us are ‘ races ’ . |
47 | Endless ads have been Green or organic , from the guy who rips his plans up to wreck the countryside and earns himself a beer , to the couple in the deodorant ad who just happen to be frolicking naked in the forest with camouflage make-up . |
48 | We just happen to be more lucky at laying hands on them than most . |
49 | It helps if you play for Swindon Town , or just happen to be a Formula One motor racing champion , but could we persuade Peter to add a Television Presenter to his collection ? |
50 | And some of them are good fun pop in their own right they just happen to be done in a foreign language and with different cultural influences . |
51 | They will doubtless say we are lucky , but we just happen to be house-owners with a steady income , like millions of others . |
52 | They just happen to be transmitted differently . ’ |
53 | and you just happen to be taller and heavier than James |
54 | Both men had leapt to their feet and had been restrained from using violence by the mates of the shop steward , who just happened to be on hand . |
55 | One of the two witnesses , who also just happened to be the convener , Fred Clasper , claimed that a second warning note was unjustified as the foreman had been knocked down unintentionally . |
56 | BBS seriously considered firing Hopper ; the pressure of moving a production team of twenty-three people from state to state , writing the script on the run and persuading innocent citizens of the United States of America who just happened to be passing at the time to appear in the movie , was a heavy burden for all . |
57 | Maybe it was n't even him that took my bag — maybe it was one of those American tourists or someone I did n't even see , and Dayglo here — Vern — just happened to be running along the wharf . |
58 | They just put me up for it and I just happened to be about at the time . |
59 | ‘ I just happened to be around some great players and be part of a great team ’ , he said with typical modesty . |
60 | To get the tickets you had to sign up for a complete tour and hospitality package , available through Travelforce , a travel agency in Durban — of which the then President of the Natal Rugby Union , and member of the Executive of the ( former ) SARB , just happened to be a director . |