Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] happened [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing apparently happened for two months after the Institute 's delegation . |
| 2 | They just put me up for it and I just happened to be about at the time . |
| 3 | ‘ I just happened to be around some great players and be part of a great team ’ , he said with typical modesty . |
| 4 | She was going through a traumatic divorce at the time and it was obvious she needed someone to talk to and I just happened to be around . |
| 5 | I just happened to be seen by a lot of people every night . |
| 6 | ‘ I just happened to be interested , that 's all , ’ she replied . |
| 7 | ‘ I just happened to be with Nick Simpkin . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I just happened to be in the corridor . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I just happened to be in the right place at the right time . ’ |
| 13 | Spooner 's idea came from an invitation by his actor-neighbour , Jim Dale , to visit the set of the latest Carry On … film at Pinewood — which just happened to be Carry On Cleo . |
| 14 | She broke into films in 1933 , when MGM advertised for ‘ tall girls in bathing suits ’ , and made her movie debut in the chorus in Dancing Lady , which also happened to be Fred Astaire 's first film . |
| 15 | Crofting made its impact when we moved house from one of the quiet streets , in the middle of the town , to the road which was planned by a wealthy proprietor as an elegant tree-lined approach to Lews Castle , but which also happened to be the shortest route between a dozen crofting villages , lying to the east of the town , and their 19,000 acres of general common pasture which lay to the west . |
| 16 | ‘ It was the day before my estimated delivery date , which also happened to be one of the children 's birthdays and half-term holidays , so I was very busy . |
| 17 | At Exeter , another clothing centre , cheese was seized and sold at a lowered price , while the Cornish miners forced butchers to lower the price of meat , which also happened in Wolverhampton . |
| 18 | One TODAY reader , who refused to be named , said : ‘ There was a certain part which really happened to me and I thought the programme was real . |
| 19 | The usurpation of 1483 happened so quickly that many of the duchy servants were presented with a fait accompli , whereupon as usual they backed the crown ( which now happened to be worn by their erstwhile chief steward ) . |
| 20 | The usurpation of 1483 happened so quickly that many of the duchy servants were presented with a fait accompli , whereupon as usual they backed the crown ( which now happened to be worn by their erstwhile chief steward ) . |
| 21 | But Mark Wahlberg , brother of New Kids On The Block star Donny , denies the attack , which allegedly happened in Boston on August 30 . |
| 22 | He failed to appear at court to answer a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm which allegedly happened in Durham Prison last July . |
| 23 | In Ardeevan we just lay and rotted and nothing ever happened between Doctor Staples 's weekly rounds – except that someone died . |
| 24 | Robin and Jenny were the ones who had adventures , fell walking or sailing on the lake , always coming home with hair-raising stories ; but nothing ever happened to Ruth . |
| 25 | Nothing ever happened to him . |
| 26 | Nothing ever happened in Broadstairs . |
| 27 | ‘ Nothing ever happened in terms of stab wounds . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ The whole thing has got out of control , I 'm not so much bored as miserable , ’ confided Diana to a sympathetic neighbour who just happened to be a journalist . |