Example sentences of "happened to be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , taking a semi-detached house worth £60,000 in Milton Keynes and a semi-detached house also worth £60,000 in Northampton , the household in Northampton would pay £88 more in tax simply because it happened to be across the regional boundary . |
| 2 | We had coffee , talked of the gardens and of plants difficult to grow in chalky soil — but nothing personal was said on either side , nor any thought of how she happened to be with me . |
| 3 | Storm Jameson , a woman novelist active in the peace movement , later recalled : ‘ For some years after 1933 I lived in equivocal amity with pacifists and combative supporters of the League of Nations , adjusting my feelings , in good and bad faith , to the person I happened to be with . |
| 4 | ‘ I just happened to be with Nick Simpkin . |
| 5 | Ben he spotted me on these occasions he invariably called out some mocking remark and if he happened to be with some of his cronies they all joined in the laughter at my expense . |
| 6 | When he happened to be with me . |
| 7 | Generally , they were the cast-offs of two children in the house who happened to be about her own age , and this could mean a pretty frock coming her way , but only if , Mrs Aggie said , she kept her nose clean . |
| 8 | The truth was revealed only by chance , when a journalist for the US magazine Sports Illustrated happened to be aboard a boat when it hauled up seven dead porpoises , caught in a single set . |
| 9 | After the wedding , they were taken for breakfast to the house of the officiating priest which by curious coincidence happened to be to Kensington Church Walk , where Ezra Pound had lived many years before . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The CO 's office where he was learning the job of Assistant Adjutant happened to be on the first floor of an empty house in Cadogan Gardens . |
| 12 | It also transpired that parts of England ( east and south-east ) were put on full invasion alert at the time , but it seems that ‘ Cromwell ’ had been ignored in some places where the junior officers who happened to be on duty had not been let into the secret of what it meant . |
| 13 | There was an especially rapid growth of the textile industry in these towns which happened to be on the coalfield where the cost of transporting fuel was small . |
| 14 | Within Christianity bread and wine are sacramental not because they just happened to be on the table for a Jewish meal but because they were signs of the covenant . |
| 15 | The grass was lucky if it grew , was shone upon and rained upon , and was not burned , and was not pulled up by the roots , or poisoned , or buried when the ground was turned over , and some bits just happened to be on a line that humans wanted to walk on , and so got trampled , broken , pressed flat , with no malice ; just effect . |
| 16 | Long acquaintance with the clergy had convinced him that priests could not tell one layman from the next if they happened to be on their own administrative staff . |
| 17 | I wanted to ‘ do ’ someone I knew a little , but when I approached my number one seed , he served me up Roy as a better choice ( Roy just happened to be on holiday so not able to comment ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Dr Grant was making a round when your call came through to the hospital , and as I happened to be on duty … ’ |
| 20 | I happened to be on duty at Thorn House while she was there . |
| 21 | At the weekend , I happened to be on a panel in a Welsh phone-in along with Wayne Shelford , Brian Price and Phil Bennett . |
| 22 | What they did at a branch on our district erm , again it was just like set up , people were given specific tasks , but at the end of the three month cycle , they 'd change some people , er , those people 's tasks so that they , so they would n't get stagnant , and plus , if one person was off , if you happened to be on holiday , you 've got somebody else that can do the job at the standard and not let the standard fall . |
| 23 | But back to Bodytalk , whose convention happened to be at the Metropole , next to Labour 's conference hotel . |
| 24 | Bulwark , with 42nd Commando on board , happened to be at Karachi doing hot-weather trials , and 45th Commando was at Aden . |
| 25 | ‘ We happened to be at the mortuary … not that it will make any difference , but there is one thing we thought you would find interesting . ’ |
| 26 | McCann happened to be at home in Derry on a visit when he was invited to take part in a DHAC demonstration . |
| 27 | A Fishguard smuggler whose ship happened to be at anchor there opened fire with his single cannon , and another gun was dragged to the edge of the cliff and joined in . |
| 28 | raised the curiosity of some ladies , who happened to be at the Castle in May 1782 , to examine the ruined Chapel , and observing a large block of alabaster , fixed in the North wall of the Chapel , they imagined it might be the back of a monument formerly placed there . |
| 29 | The answer is : those that happened to be at the top of Craig 's sub-parcel . |
| 30 | Both also gave prominence to the fact that Blanche happened to be at TV London at the time of the murder and had taken charge of the case . |