Example sentences of "just happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | This did not just happen by itself . |
| 2 | Strength , agility , vigour , and endurance do not just happen , but require proper nutrition and training to develop their full potential . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , if you 're tellin' me that our cellar leads out to the East River , then it follows that the East River leads to our cellar , and it could just happen that somebody would leave a door open somewhere , and we 'd have the whole of the East River down round our feet . ’ |
| 4 | The right person may just happen to come along , or it may be necessary to take certain steps to help this happen . |
| 5 | And then things would just happen . |
| 6 | ‘ It did n't just happen , Dermot . |
| 7 | It does n't just happen . |
| 8 | ‘ By a quite exceptional oversight , ’ said Rufus , ‘ I do n't just happen to have any picture postcards of the Acropolis about me at present . ’ |
| 9 | But successful negotiations do n't just happen . |
| 10 | Conflict does n't just happen , it has its own process of growth . |
| 11 | But it could just happen , because of the risks Prince Charles takes with his boys . |
| 12 | Strange he should just happen to mention these artistic luminaries.A more direct hint comes when I ask him if he has influenced Government policy . |
| 13 | That a Messiah will come and establish a New Age is a belief based on a wish too , and it might just happen . |
| 14 | Was her decision to play music on a full-time basis thought out — or did she just happen into it ? |
| 15 | ‘ Unemployment in West Belfast did n't just happen last year or the year before in or 1969 … |
| 16 | When it happens it 'll just happen naturally , and that 's all there 'll be to it . |
| 17 | Do we both just happen to share the same good life ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I mean , they could n't just happen , could they ? |
| 19 | BUT it does n't just happen by accident . |
| 20 | A renovatio monetae does not just happen : it is conceived of , then planned , and executed by many agents . |
| 21 | Well , we might just happen to bump into each other , might n't we ? |
| 22 | Perhaps during social education discussions in schools , more emphasis could be put on the importance of considering the long-term supportiveness of a potential marriage partner , of thinking through one 's aspirations for work and children and taking positive steps to achieve one 's hopes rather than letting things ‘ just happen ’ . |
| 23 | How did it just happen that Harris could maintain his Offensive despite disastrous occasions like Nuremburg . |
| 24 | It protects the defendant in that it prevents the jury from speculating on the possible effect of adult literature on a young person who may just happen to see it , although it does not put the prosecution to proof that a majority , or even a substantial number , of readers would be adversely affected . |
| 25 | I was in a shop and some fella said : ‘ She should have had her eye on him ’ but it can just happen in seconds . ’ |
| 26 | I was in a shop and some fella said ‘ she should have had her eye on him ’ but it can just happen in seconds ' Sheena Heffing |
| 27 | over a five year period , I mean they do n't just happen overnight |
| 28 | This does n't just happen to you — you have to work at it and PE will help you to achieve fitness in an enjoyable way . |
| 29 | I suppose there is n't a little knob on it that would just happen to work zeros ? |
| 30 | But you were saying about er Australia and that I I think at that particular time more so than now whatever was happening in the British pop scene seemed to just happen all over the world you know . |