Example sentences of "[pron] happened to [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That he himself happened to be a congenital cad only made the whole thing more difficult , not easier . |
| 2 | We took a book from a shelf , which happened to be a gardening book . |
| 3 | Unfortunately she made a mistake of naming the church where Jesus was found as St George 's , which happened to be a Church of England edifice . |
| 4 | The only way that Father could do this was by giving his son the head of the first living creature he met , which happened to be an elephant . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | She happened to be a staunch Methodist and that at least offered me some welcome continuity . |
| 7 | And she happened to be a Christian . |
| 8 | But this was achieved only because she happened to be a good listener , and , after a few leading questions about his earlier life in the high , mountainous country of the South Island , he talked almost non-stop . |
| 9 | If tha does n't believe me , ger a bag of coil on thi back and I 'll get one on mine [ not something unusual for Amos who happened to be a coalmerchant ] and ah 'll race thee to t ’ top o' t' wood ! ’ |
| 10 | and wild beyond er , that one boy who was and had n't been used to that sort of thing , for his father had kept a small cook stock his companion that unless he has another basin of gruel he was afraid he might , he might some night happen to eat , eat the boy he slept next to , who happened to be a weakly youth of tender eight and they , and they impeccably believed him . |
| 11 | Moral suasion caused the banks to discriminate between customers in a manner unrelated to their ordinary business relations : a customer who happened to be an exporter was eligible for funds , but an equally good customer who , say , imported manufactured consumer goods was deprived of necessary funds . |
| 12 | So a Primary school headmaster , for instance , could find his school offering movement experience to children who had female teachers to the neglect of those children who were unfortunate enough to have a man as their teacher , and similarly , Movement and Drama appeared as a subject on the time-table in our Secondary schools where there happened to be a woman in the P.E . |
| 13 | Are they there for some special purpose or just because there happened to be a nail on the wall for them to hang on ? |
| 14 | ‘ Unless they happened to be a part of it . ’ |
| 15 | A patient , he maintains , should not be expected to change his basic beliefs because the doctor who cured him happened to be an adherent of the Christian religion . |
| 16 | We would n't have got on to it except it happened to be a post office where the little old lady is careful and takes a note of the numbers of anything over a fiver . |
| 17 | It happened to be a goods ' entrance , and as she pushed open the heavy doors and slipped inside the deafening noise hit her — of hammering and drilling and the drone of the hydraulic pumps that operated the floor levels together with the shouts of the men operating the overhead cranes . |
| 18 | When he was a child , an artist visited his school — he happened to be a musician — and left behind him an impression of a man very clearly committed to his chosen subject , and a feeling of passion for doing something you really want to do , that stayed with Paul for years until he finally decided to become a photographer . |
| 19 | He happened to be an unusually bright child and his mother had worked hard with him at home on spelling and reading . |