Example sentences of "happened to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never seemed to raise his voice , whereas Empson , who rapidly got tight , would end every other sentence with a ‘ whoop ’ , accompanied by a lunge endangering the wine glasses of anyone who happened to be near . |
| 2 | From time to time , almost absent-mindedly , he reached into his pocket and produced a sweet , which he gave to any small boy who happened to be near . |
| 3 | She said it would only be a little party : herself and Freddie , one of her flat mates , called Pauline — the other happened to be away — and Pauline 's boyfriend . |
| 4 | Chair , the letters that do go , the majority of the letters that go to MPs and members are signed by me , though they 're prepared by the officer who 's the expert in different fields , but these two letters went when I happened to be away from the department , and that 's fair enough , I 'd rather they went than sat around waiting for my return . |
| 5 | The divisions were arbitrary , mainly depending upon who happened to be where when the fighting stopped . |
| 6 | In 1875 Francis Seymour Haden , FRCS , advocated by means of three letters to The Times a disintegrating coffin ‘ … of some lighter permeable material , such as wicker or lattice-work , open at the top , and filled in with any fragrant herbaceous matters that happened to be most readily obtainable . |
| 7 | Conversely , where , as in the case of China , sources were remote , the type of jade most commonly used at any particular juncture depended on what happened to be most readily accessible at the time . |
| 8 | It may well be the case — as some commentators have observed , perhaps unduly cynically — that the economic and political situation in 1979 was such that it mattered little what the government tried to control as long as they showed determination and resolve to control something ; the money supply happened to be both a convenient and a relevant variable at that time . |
| 9 | Detective Sergeant Brian Jackson was driving through the more prosperous part of Long Eaton , a village on the outskirts of Nottingham which happened to be just over the Derbyshire border . |
| 10 | I happened to be just about the oldest one of the team of them really . |
| 11 | Then , on one occasion , Malcolm happened to be around when they came in . |
| 12 | It was basically a group of people who happened to be around but very soon we all had titles and were constantly organising and re-organising the creating divisions and systems and methods . |
| 13 | ‘ But to go out on a limb and take any bunch of morons , just those that happened to be around when he met Plumpton , and propose that they should do this thing — that 's really sticking your neck out . |
| 14 | ‘ I just happened to be around some great players and be part of a great team ’ , he said with typical modesty . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | His girlfriend , a dealer too , would give him a bored hard look , if she happened to be around . |
| 17 | Daak was always the same : without reference to the-creed , colour , gender or opinions of whoever happened to be around , he was rude , randy , rebellious and always ready for a fight . |
| 18 | They just happened to be around after Mass when volunteers were needed . |
| 19 | The bombardier beetle 's ancestors simply pressed into different service chemicals that already happened to be around . |
| 20 | The primitive mammals that happened to be around in the three areas when the dinosaurs more or less simultaneously vacated the great life trades , were all rather small and insignificant , probably nocturnal , previously overshadowed and overpowered by the dinosaurs . |
| 21 | In all three areas the mammals that happened to be around at the start fanned out in evolution , and produced a specialist for each trade which , in many cases , came to bear a remarkable resemblance to the corresponding specialist in the other two areas . |
| 22 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 23 | Numerous such accidents happened whilst igniting , for if the slow fuze happened to be not so slow , or the miner inadvertently touched the straw with his candle , then he might have but a few impossible seconds to make good his escape . |
| 24 | If you happened to be megafabulously famous way back at the start of the '70s , the problems are literally multiplied twentyfold . |
| 25 | The woman happened to be quite wealthy , cheerfully handed him a large cheque as a gift — and he flew to Hawaii . |
| 26 | When it came to boxing , Reg Witter paired me with a bigger boy called Charlie Featherstone , who happened to be quite a friend of mine . |
| 27 | For some reason he was always referred to as " The Threarah " — perhaps because there happened to be only one threar , or rowan , near the warren , from which he took his name . |
| 28 | oh we just happened to be down town |
| 29 | We got all the details from Peggy , who happened to be there at the time , when she popped down later to the Met Office for a reviving cup of coffee and dash of medicinal brandy . |
| 30 | He would burst into the office singing , and if I happened to be there he would rush over and ruffle my hair , and exclaim , ‘ Here she is , the wee lassie ! |