Example sentences of "just happened [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if , by sheer coincidence , all the molecules just happened to move in the same direction at the same moment , the hand would move . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They just happened to pick on mine . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | just happened to mention in the night says I 'd like a white telly you know , go a bit more with , with the decor |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Spencer just happened to have in his bottom drawer , as it were , a spare Centaurus engine . |
| 9 | ‘ Is it true Old Red just happened to pass by that morning ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |