Example sentences of "just [vb past] to be [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They just happened to be in the right place at the right time . |
| 4 | I said I did n't know the other guys , we just happened to be in the same pub . |
| 5 | ‘ I just happened to be in the corridor . |
| 6 | ‘ I just happened to be in the right place at the right time . ’ |
| 7 | We just happened to be in the pool at the same time , that 's all . ’ |
| 8 | He just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time . ’ |