Example sentences of "you happened " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How you happened to turn up here at this hour ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You see , it is rather bad luck for you that you happened to come here on one of our meatless days . ’ |
| 3 | If you happened to be megafabulously famous way back at the start of the '70s , the problems are literally multiplied twentyfold . |
| 4 | If you happened to be in Hyde Park on October 21st , you may have seen celebrities like Gloria Hunniford , Lyndsey De Paul , James Coburn and Roger Daltrey with spade in hand in aid of the Prince of Wales Trust ( they 're all devotees of Paul Mitchell products , I 'm sure ! ) . |
| 5 | ‘ It was a hysterical scene — unless you happened to be in the housing offices at the time . ’ |
| 6 | We all had a good laugh about it , but it was not so funny if you happened to be Keith Fletcher . |
| 7 | After all , if you happened to be next him after dinner for ten minutes , he would get invaluable hints . |
| 8 | Apart from that he was rather a handsome man , she thought , if you happened to like that type of thing . |
| 9 | All of this is very unlikely , unless you happened to be lucky enough to attend a reasonably progressive school . |
| 10 | So if you happened to be out of the house working it was too bad , unless you got a house cleaner to put your name down for you . |
| 11 | The software for each desktop publishing task should be the package that suits the task , rather than the one you happened to use yesterday . |
| 12 | Er all the clothing you had was provided by yourself , boiler suits , boots er there there was no protective clothing at all , there were no protection for your hearing , er there was no what we called leathers as such for er to save you from getting burned with scales off of the rivets , with burning machines etcetera , there were n't there was absolutely no er protective clothing at all , unless you happened to be able to buy it yourself somewhere . |
| 13 | He was glad that Henry had n't waived the charge altogether ; you would n't expect an electrician to rewire your house for free , just because you happened to be acquainted . |
| 14 | ‘ It was lucky that you happened to drop by he said , as he tugged off his surplice . |
| 15 | That is , unless you happened to be about to meet them across a conference table . |
| 16 | It was a very feminine room if you happened to like your femininity in ton lots . |
| 17 | ‘ I guess I threw myself at you because of everything that had happened between Jonathan and myself ; I guess I was just looking for a diversion and you happened to be in the right place at the right time . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ And imagine what it must have been like before all those modern office ‘ towers ’ were built to dwarf it — especially if you happened to be a traitor . |
| 19 | Unless , Robbie — testing potatoes with a fork — thought darkly , unless you happened to be in love with the person sharing your confinement . |
| 20 | But if , instead of jumping you walked , one step at a time , and were given one small coin as a reward every time you happened to take a step in the right direction , you would reach the scorpion in a very short time . |
| 21 | And , ’ he went on , before Marc could interrupt , ‘ you happened to be in Paris when I came over for them . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're about as grown up as … as Just William , with all this leering , these smutty innuendoes , just because you happened to see me with no clothes on ! ’ |
| 23 | You happened to hit on a sore subject . ’ |
| 24 | So if you kept C R fixed and you happened to fiddle them so it came to one , you could just You You 're working out your graph you see you see then . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | These days the property itself had no value unless you happened to have a farm over the hill . |
| 27 | In other words you get into the rugby team because you happened to go third instead of fourth . |
| 28 | And in the course of time they began to make simple documentaries erm which would be something say the study of Pekin , if you happened to go there , or Italy if you happened to go , any country that to which you could go , you went and you made not just newsreels but also erm documentary studies of these films , of these places . |
| 29 | And in the course of time they began to make simple documentaries erm which would be something say the study of Pekin , if you happened to go there , or Italy if you happened to go , any country that to which you could go , you went and you made not just newsreels but also erm documentary studies of these films , of these places . |
| 30 | This is one of the problems under which the law labours , because of course , if we did n't accept that it 's individual guilt that counts , and we looked to group guilt , then that in itself is an infringement of civil liberties and human rights , you are being judged not according to your acts but according to the acts of others erm with whom you happened to associate , even though your conduct may not in itself be reprehensible . |