Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] happened [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'm awfully glad I happened to be passing . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm glad I happened to be awake , ’ I said , ‘ but I must go now . |
| 3 | Three patients , all who happened to be in the Pasteur group were subsequently unavailable . |
| 4 | No-one was certain if any hanging had really taken place but on cold , windy nights the tree would creak and moan , startling those who happened to be passing by . |
| 5 | Hundreds of people were arrested and imprisoned , or summarily executed , because their ideas or sympathies were considered " wrong " by those who happened to be in local control . |
| 6 | Sir Neill Cooper-Key , Lord Rothermere 's son-in-law , procured the safe Conservative seat of Hastings because , as a young army officer in 1945 he happened to be drinking in the bar of the Berkeley Hotel . |