Example sentences of "i happened " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles wanted his protégé in and as I was the resident ( and unpopular ) Baroque sculpture specialist , I happened to be in the way . |
| 2 | ‘ I happened to mention that a mutual friend was going to Bibury with his girl for the weekend . |
| 3 | I happened upon the tannery when I walked east along the coast towards the beginning of the Akrotiri peninsula . |
| 4 | It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment . |
| 5 | ‘ The most extraordinary thing happened , ’ he explained , ‘ I was sitting here ( at his desk in Kensington palace ) , and I happened to look at the bookshelf , and my eyes settled on a book about Paracelsus . |
| 6 | I happened to be the last person of my family there . |
| 7 | I happened to have with me the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth on my trip to the Dales as I had forgotten to return it to the public library , and you have my word that I dropped it the instant I was made aware that they were harbouring a drug addict . |
| 8 | ‘ I happened to observe you reading that notice below and it does seem to me that this challenging task might well be of interest to you . |
| 9 | Beatrice described his assaults in her fluent , showy style , the nights when Modigliani came home drunk : ‘ If I happened to be drunk too , there was a great scene ! |
| 10 | One day I happened to come across the work of the Italian still-life painter Giorgio Morandi . |
| 11 | It was one evening when I happened to be valeting him , Mr Charles told me he had come across my father some years earlier while a guest at Loughborough House — the home of Mr John Silvers , the industrialist , where my father served for fifteen years at the height of his career . |
| 12 | I happened to be walking past the kitchen yesterday when I heard you calling to someone named William . ’ |
| 13 | However , after some time had passed , and I had exhausted the tasks which could usefully be achieved with the implements I happened to have at hand , Miss Kenton was evidently still outside . |
| 14 | I recall , for instance , the occasion around that time I happened to encounter her in the back corridor . |
| 15 | As I hastened to go upstairs , I happened to encounter Miss Kenton in the back corridor — the scene , of course , of our last disagreement — and it was perhaps this unhappy coincidence that encouraged her to maintain the childish behaviour she had adopted on that previous occasion . |
| 16 | It was around this point , in the midst of dealing with the many demands being made on my attention , that I happened to glance out of a window and spotted the figure of the young Mr Cardinal taking some fresh air around the grounds . |
| 17 | At one stage , when I happened to depart the room in the midst of an address by one of the German gentlemen , M. Dupont suddenly rose and followed me out . |
| 18 | However , as fortune would have it , when I put my ear to M. Dupont 's door , I happened to hear Mr Lewis 's voice , and though I can not recall precisely the actual words I first heard , it was the tone of his voice that raised my suspicions . |
| 19 | ‘ I remember once , though , when Sounds were searching for an interview and I happened to know that the whole thing was a set-up . |
| 20 | My favourite tale , comes from Corner Pool , when Rob was fishing one cold March day : ‘ I was about to start at the top of the pool when I happened to spot a flicker of movement close to the north bank . |
| 21 | However , to illustrate my belief that nothing has really changed , while I was taking a few notes from a caddie in Montpellier in the south of France — he was telling me how ‘ we 'd hit a great pitch in at the last ’ — I happened to notice the sign above the caddie shack . |
| 22 | I happened to serve you and your wife the other evening with the sweets . ’ |
| 23 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |
| 24 | Walking through the lobby of Hotel Vancouver one day I happened to see Shelly talking to a smart looking young lady and when I joined them he introduced his assistant , Hellen Semmens . |
| 25 | When I was small , if I happened to say ‘ It 's not fair ’ , as I often did , then my mother 's stock reply was , ‘ No , and it wo n't be till next October . ’ |
| 26 | I happened , on 6 September 1972 , to be travelling to London by a very early train and bought a copy of The Daily Telegraph which carried the headline ‘ Hostages Freed in Gun Battle ’ and went on to say that ‘ late last night ’ there was a gun battle at a military airport in which one terrorist was killed and one policeman slightly wounded , ‘ but the hostages were reported safe ’ . |
| 27 | This occurred on take-off one evening and I happened to be in the Met Office at the time . |
| 28 | 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 ! |
| 29 | One day I happened to mention that I did n't know one end of a bomb from the other , and wondered out loud what the bomb dump looked like . |
| 30 | I happened at that time to be a Council member , and I was therefore able to point out that Bondi 's listing of observational errors were all taken from well-attested literature . |