Example sentences of "[adj] happened to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This happened to be the very day that her daddy , who had sold his old van , was going to bring home his new van from Stowbridge . |
| 2 | This happened to be the very moment when I dropped the punt-pole into the water , the idea being that Dennis could grab hold of it and I would then pull him in . |
| 3 | This happened to be all of the middle section of the body , which had lost almost everything from and including the bottom two ribs down to the top of the pelvis . |
| 4 | this happened to be the hour you see and it was on |
| 5 | That happened to be me . |
| 6 | For them no one else in the programme existed — except one And since that happened to be another woman , she had to be remarkable and she certainly was . |
| 7 | In one such instance , when the party prospectively disadvantaged happened to be in government , the Home Secretary took the extraordinary step of introducing the order and advising his party colleagues in the House to reject it , which they duly did , the stated reasons being the desirability of awaiting the outcome of a local government review then pending . |
| 8 | As Murad II happened to be in Serez at the time , de la Broquière and his companions , one of whom was Benedetto Folco da Forli , the ambassador of the Duke of Milan , set out to meet him . |
| 9 | ‘ They just all happened to be in Washington at the same time . |