Example sentences of "just happen [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time they walk down the street , just happening to bump into the gang of boys , they have got it all worked out . |
| 2 | The fact that the Wolof turn out to be less ‘ logical ’ when in their own environment than when in contact with European influences just happens to follow from the tests , whatever we might want to believe . |
| 3 | It looks ordinary enough … but inside it 's packed with high tech electronics … it 's the work of local man Richard Marshall , who just happens to head of electronics for the Benetton Formula Grand One Prix team , putting some ideas into practice . |
| 4 | But we just happen to live in a history in which the Allies won the war and Madonna was on the cover of Cosmopolitan . |
| 5 | ‘ I just happen to believe in waiting till after marriage . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And I just happen to have with me |
| 9 | Which I just happen to have with me somewhere in here . |
| 10 | But if , by sheer coincidence , all the molecules just happened to move in the same direction at the same moment , the hand would move . |
| 11 | I 've actually seen them only once — Lawrence and I wandered in there one morning– the torch beam just happened to fall on a clutch of them sitting tight on the wall , right by my ear . |
| 12 | They just happened to pick on mine . |
| 13 | just happened to go in one day for some meat and I got me bacon there for Christmas , that 's what I went in for were n't it ? |
| 14 | just happened to mention in the night says I 'd like a white telly you know , go a bit more with , with the decor |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I was feeling that was a pity when some hours later I was coming out of a supermarket and just happened to bump into Sheena again , and we arranged to make contact again , ’ says Betty . |
| 17 | Spencer just happened to have in his bottom drawer , as it were , a spare Centaurus engine . |
| 18 | ‘ Is it true Old Red just happened to pass by that morning ? ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I began to feel I was really homing in on the answer : involuntary spasms had sent those lifeless appendages hopping about the turret like bingo balls on a current of air … until their trajectories just happened to coincide with not-wall , not-floor , not-ceiling ( which I quickly worked out was better than a one in three shot every hop ) . |
| 21 | Well , we might just happen to bump into each other , might n't we ? |