Example sentences of "just happened " in BNC.

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1 It just happened like that . ’
2 He just happened to have a pint of Guinness with a perfect head on it in his pocket .
3 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 .
4 One of the two witnesses , who also just happened to be the convener , Fred Clasper , claimed that a second warning note was unjustified as the foreman had been knocked down unintentionally .
5 ‘ I ca n't say whether I invited it or — or not ; it just happened . ’
6 They just happened in the natural order of things .
7 On our first night in France , exhausted after a ferry crossing , we just happened to fetch up in this little village on the Loire , in a hotel on the second floor of a hotel where , indeed , we opened the shutters — and we were looking at the west end of the Romanesque Abbey of St Benoit sur Loire , which is a most striking church where the remains of the saint are interred in a little casket in the crypt .
8 Had William Day , a man with a long criminal record , just happened along inadvertently ?
9 BBS seriously considered firing Hopper ; the pressure of moving a production team of twenty-three people from state to state , writing the script on the run and persuading innocent citizens of the United States of America who just happened to be passing at the time to appear in the movie , was a heavy burden for all .
10 Nothing was said about this , it just happened .
11 With chains and gags and — dirt — This week , ever so efficiently filing records for this surgeon , I just happened to come across a sixteen-year-old who had his leg off last year — they 're fitting him with an artificial one , it takes months , they 're incredibly slow — and it 's started up for certain now in his other leg , he does n't know , but I know , I know lots of things .
12 What if a mutant gene arose that just happened to have an effect , not upon something obvious like eye colour or curliness of hair , but upon meiosis itself ?
13 Roger Yeoman was passing one morning , and just happened to notice movement under the surface .
14 History is taught as if the industrial revolution , the most significant event since the development of agriculture , just happened , simply by the outworking of blind economic forces ; and as if the only people to be consciously aware of it were the aesthetes who reacted against its artifacts , or who , like Karl Marx , sought to analyse those forces and to predict their course .
15 Thus the idea is implicit that science and industry , the development of the material world , just happened , without human contemplation .
16 Maybe it was n't even him that took my bag — maybe it was one of those American tourists or someone I did n't even see , and Dayglo here — Vern — just happened to be running along the wharf .
17 They just put me up for it and I just happened to be about at the time .
18 ‘ When we met up , I did n't have any ideas at all — it just happened .
19 I knew the sound that I wanted , in my head , and I just happened to find this old AC30 which belonged to a friend of mine .
20 How could he keep something that just happened ?
21 ‘ Er , look , Quinn , Washington is being alerted to what just happened here .
22 ‘ I just happened to be around some great players and be part of a great team ’ , he said with typical modesty .
23 To get the tickets you had to sign up for a complete tour and hospitality package , available through Travelforce , a travel agency in Durban — of which the then President of the Natal Rugby Union , and member of the Executive of the ( former ) SARB , just happened to be a director .
24 ‘ It just happened when we were half asleep .
25 It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women .
26 So it should be assumed that a similar number of those who changed in the ‘ right ’ direction were similarly ill-informed about their new choice , and just happened to end up in the ‘ right ’ group by chance .
27 One senior source said : ‘ It is possible to believe that the Diana recording was made by a radio ham who just happened to pick it up .
28 I never dreamed there would be this much money , I just happened to come along when everything started to escalate .
29 This continent seems to have been created by Augustus Le Plongeon for his 1896 novel Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphynx , which he claimed was based on original Mayan writings — which writings , of course , just happened to be unavailable to other scholars .
30 Actually , it just happened because I found I was engaging with people who had similar interests to myself .
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