Example sentences of "just happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And as luck would have it , I just happen to have a list of apparently germane truths which I have been maturing during the last month or so , after being worsted in various conversations . |
| 3 | Earthworms are the main item in a badger 's diet and cow grazing pastures just happen to be a good source of earthworms . |
| 4 | As with the intertidal communities , coral reefs flourish in regions that just happen to be especially favoured . |
| 5 | For decades yet , whether it be in Newcastle , London , Los Angeles , Sydney or wherever , I fully expect to see , or hear of , his rising from the audience at the end of someone 's lecture with ‘ I just happen to have this slide here , which illustrates … |
| 6 | Incontinence always as a cause — it does n't ‘ just happen ’ and is not an inevitable part of getting older . |
| 7 | And if you just happen to think of one that is n't here — just tell Jimmy and I 'm sure he 'll accommodate you . |
| 8 | Public NME takes a dim view of types who persecute innocent human beings who just happen to enjoy the feel of women 's lingerie against their bollocks , but did find it quite funny that the be-wigged ‘ bomb victims ’ were so convinced it was an aerial attack they raced into a nearby hotel to beat up a perfectly innocent couple snogging on a balcony . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The plot of Home Alone 2 is the plot of Home Alone 1 , with bungling burglars Harry and Marv — Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern — wandering the streets of the Big Apple planning a toy store robbery on Christmas Eve when they just happen to run across Wee Mac , who proceeds to foil their plans again . |
| 11 | They plan to rob a toy store on Christmas Eve and just happen to bounce up against Macaulay in a busy New York street . |
| 12 | You know , just happen to be passing when they 're going out of school . ’ |
| 13 | Something that you just happen to know because of your profession ? ’ |
| 14 | At the time you do not analyse the reasons for love-affairs — they are just instinctive — they just happen . |
| 15 | ‘ Three bottles thrown out to sea and they just happen to meet up a thousand miles away . |
| 16 | ‘ I just happen to be the exception . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I expect you just happen to like living in a very simple way , ’ Matilda said , probing a little further . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And they just happen to be two of the best tracks . |
| 20 | If you just happen to stick around here you 'll learn to sing his praises . |
| 21 | And they just happen to be attached to a saint ! |
| 22 | I 'm neither a salivating cheque-signer ( how could I be ? ) , nor an orchidectomised walker ; I just happen to know that my eye , my sense of colour , my nous about fabric are all superior to those of both Stuart and Gillian combined . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | The first one is called geometrical isomerism in some books not that you ever read , will read any chemistry books but just in case you stumble over one day and fall flat on your face and there happens to be a chemistry text book open and you ha , just happen to read one or two of the words as you go unconscious and in Matthew 's case if you wake up ! |
| 25 | Their highly successful current TV campaign , however , relies almost entirely on the relationships between the members of a distinctive , but quite ordinary , family in which individuals just happen to put Oxo into the meals they produce . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And I just happen to have with me |
| 29 | You 've been bothered by something for ages and just happen to mention it somebody as you 're walking by , Oh yes . |
| 30 | But we just happen to live in a history in which the Allies won the war and Madonna was on the cover of Cosmopolitan . |