Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 31 | Actually , I 'd been waiting for somebody else but I just happened to be on hand and I could n't just stand there and watch her struggle with all those boxes , suitcases , typewriters , bicycles , stereo systems and so on . |
| 32 | ‘ Look , lady — ’ little Cleo staggered back into the room clutching a bright red balloon' — I just happened to be there , looking after the place while the owner was away . |
| 33 | I just happened to know that Geoffrey was keen to meet you again , and you do seem to be at a loose end at the moment . |
| 34 | I was in the US over the summer ( yes , I just happened to see a couple of the England games ) and it was the same there — ordinary match-going footie fans who like a drink and a bit of crack ( fun , that is ) , and who all supported loads of different teams mixing together happily enough . |
| 35 | ‘ I just happened to be in the corridor . |
| 36 | The things I said may have been unjustified , and the fact that I just happened to be bloody tired and bad-tempered was no excuse . |
| 37 | ‘ I just happened to be in the right place at the right time . ’ |
| 38 | I just happened to have a photograph . |
| 39 | I just happened to pick , I picked the favourite and everyone was going . |
| 40 | I just happened to see these selection of pots no I think there these fancy ones more |
| 41 | I also happened to know that Brabham 's Bernard Ecclestone wanted him badly . |
| 42 | But there were loads of spaces and I also happen to know that if you do n't stay long the hotel management does n't mind . ’ |
| 43 | Yeah well I was talking , I was talking to a friend and they said that , you know , there 's some homophobic attacks and some of them just happen to occur because people are walking in a gay area |
| 44 | ‘ In order for them not to happen the law would have to be changed and , with the time it would take to change the law , we would n't be able to do so before the elections are due to happen . |
| 45 | Alien is primarily a mood piece as well as a visual display — there are slow passages in which little happens , building up suspense for the main action scenes , the deaths of six crew members . |
| 46 | Somebody had been reading a paper there , which apparently happened quite often , Penelope learned , and they usually finished at about this time . |
| 47 | However , he rejects this view on the ground that although the redness of a red object is not something which merely happens to look red to us , since a redness which did not look red would not be redness , nonetheless ‘ red ’ does not mean ‘ looks red ’ since only one who understands ‘ red ’ can know what ‘ looks red ’ means . |
| 48 | Throughout 1990 rumours spread that a less-busy Shabba had signed for a major , which finally happened when CBS picked him up in America at the end of last year , and worldwide earlier this year . |
| 49 | ’ Its just happened so fast , ’ says the former Shanna Jackson . |
| 50 | Yes , and she phoned me and she said I feel as though I dropped out of the bottom of the world she said , you know , I just do n't see anybody , I said well of course you were working on Mondays , you see she used to have Mondays to herself and I would often go round on a Monday afternoon and , we , we could talk , but that 's gone and I said I ca n't run in at half past five when you get home from school and chat to you because Ned will be coming home at six and I do n't want to be there all that often when he 's there erm its you know , its just happened and I also thought to myself and I 'm probably going to move a lot further away then Fen Lane . |
| 51 | They are the closest thing to a random selection of books printed in English that anyone might find in any shop , a fair sample of our literature which just happens to have been discarded as worthless . |
| 52 | During the 1970s several teams attempted to refute this claim , arguing that the connection is a figment of Arp 's imagination , that it is an optical illusion caused by the overlap of isophotes ( light contours ) from the two objects , or that it is an illusion caused by a star or galaxy which just happens to be located between the two objects . |
| 53 | We sometimes surprise ourselves as well as our near and dear ones by suddenly exploding into unreasonable anger over a trifling offence which just happens to be the last straw that breaks the camel 's back . |
| 54 | → I do n't think that our look at the Carlton Combo was anything other than a fair , unbiased review of a new product which just happens to incorporate a different technology along the way . |
| 55 | We shall be considering The Prelude as a poem at the appropriate point in the Critical Survey ; for the moment I propose to refer to it simply as evidence of Wordsworth 's internal struggles and preoccupations , as if it were a diary or a letter to a friend which just happens to be in verse . |
| 56 | Most philosophical systems of ethics , and most popular moralizing , are radically flawed because they recommend morality to us either as what it is in our own best ultimate interests to do , or alternatively try to promote it by appeal to our feelings , for example feelings of compassion , or ( like Hutcheson ) by reference to some kind of moral sentiment which just happens to be part of human nature . |
| 57 | It also means that any kind of thought not in tune with these imperatives is , by definition , unfashionable and will not prosper ; which just happens to suit our masters and mistresses very well indeed . |
| 58 | The user prepares a document using Berthold fonts and sends it to a bureau for output on an imagesetter which just happens to be running Hell-Xenotron 's Bridgit . |
| 59 | A random development , culturally reinforced , which just happens to be love rather than something else ? |
| 60 | The only thing they have in common is that they are all outgoing , extrovert , self-confident , irrepressible and generally sparky personalities — which just happens to be a pretty good recipe for attractiveness in a woman , as well as being the ideal make-up for sales . ’ |