Example sentences of "[pron] just happened [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I just happened to wake up and see her in the courtyard . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't , I just happened to see that tatty book of horoscopes Myra keeps on her desk while I was waiting for you one day , so I looked it up , ’ Dana said defiantly . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I just happened to see these selection of pots no I think there these fancy ones more |
| 5 | ‘ I just happened to notice it , that 's all . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ There must have been about 30 pairs in the drawer but I just happened to pick the one with the money . |
| 7 | I just happened to pick , I picked the favourite and everyone was going . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course , I 'm really saving it up for when the hotpot comes out of the oven , but I just happened to cast my eye and yes , look … . ’ |
| 9 | I said that I just happened to have my travelling rod with me … though it hardly mattered as they had more than enough gear . |
| 10 | I just happened to have a photograph . |
| 11 | With chains and gags and — dirt — This week , ever so efficiently filing records for this surgeon , I just happened to come across a sixteen-year-old who had his leg off last year — they 're fitting him with an artificial one , it takes months , they 're incredibly slow — and it 's started up for certain now in his other leg , he does n't know , but I know , I know lots of things . |
| 12 | I never dreamed there would be this much money , I just happened to come along when everything started to escalate . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I just happened to look up and he was back . |
| 15 | ‘ I just happened to discover it last spring , when I was trying to find out more about the d'Urbervilles and noticed your name in the village . ’ |
| 16 | I knew the sound that I wanted , in my head , and I just happened to find this old AC30 which belonged to a friend of mine . |
| 17 | I just happened to feel it because the wounds have n't been healing Doctor , |
| 18 | Caught by the uplift of hot air from the fluorescent tubes , all the smoke was drawn into the hood and onto the water 's surface , which just happened to have a protein skimmer waiting to mix it into solution . |
| 19 | I was n't inclined to linger anyway ; the day I arrived I caught a bus in the square which just happened to have Collioure on the front . |
| 20 | Singly and in groups , in a variety of motorised transport , ranging from thirty-ton sixteen wheelers to private cars , they were converging on their Operations HQ — which just happened to bear a remarkable resemblance to the County Sheriff 's office in Rockford ! |
| 21 | One senior source said : ‘ It is possible to believe that the Diana recording was made by a radio ham who just happened to pick it up . |
| 22 | They are pictured with the regional field salesmen who just happened to come in on photo day ! |
| 23 | Yeah I know but I did n't think I treat I thought no I 'll go safe put them far then you just happened to put two three in the of two king . |
| 24 | Alan was in London talking business with his agent , Audrey Ellison , when she just happened to mention a letter she had received from a friend in Budapest about a young pianist who was about to be hauled into the Hungarian army to do his national service . |
| 25 | It belonged to a huge and beautiful seal who said she just happened to have been drawn that way . |
| 26 | And we just happened to see it as were was coming back from Thurmaston we popped in and sa granddad got a |
| 27 | say to th this chap you know but we just happened to mention in passing to Jeanette and she really jumped and said oh Pat did n't smoke a lot . |
| 28 | On our first night in France , exhausted after a ferry crossing , we just happened to fetch up in this little village on the Loire , in a hotel on the second floor of a hotel where , indeed , we opened the shutters — and we were looking at the west end of the Romanesque Abbey of St Benoit sur Loire , which is a most striking church where the remains of the saint are interred in a little casket in the crypt . |
| 29 | He would use her as one used a paper towel , as an object of little worth that one just happened to find useful . |
| 30 | They just happened to move me off into this quieter road . |