Example sentences of "[pron] happened to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I happened to be fluent in French , I was promoted 11 months later to loan officer and assigned to the French-speaking Arab countries of North Africa , where I made my first international calls . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , Mrs Markham , ’ a Mrs Prothero and President of the Women 's Institute said one day , ‘ I happened to be passing and just wanted to extend a welcome on behalf of the whole village . ’ |
| 3 | Normally I ask for an appointment , but I happened to be passing and saw the lights — and the chopper . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm glad I happened to be awake , ’ I said , ‘ but I must go now . |
| 5 | Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me . |
| 6 | I happened to be able to put it together again , it was n't too difficult , and er so I got the job of being clerk-cum-what-have-you . |
| 7 | Over the past two centuries the ships employed have ranged from totally unsuitable ones , which happened to be available at the time , to , less commonly , purpose-built vessels incorporating the most sophisticated technology of the day . ’ |
| 8 | So we entered a genteel teashoppe/cafe which happened to be handy and ordered coffee , as so often before . |
| 9 | After all , if you happened to be next him after dinner for ten minutes , he would get invaluable hints . |
| 10 | All of this is very unlikely , unless you happened to be lucky enough to attend a reasonably progressive school . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And did he have to flaunt his sexual prowess with her as well , just because she happened to be female , and happened to be there ? |
| 13 | The spine was so long and thick that Hawkbit , who happened to be close by , woke Speedwell to have a look at it . |
| 14 | She made numerous complaints to her manager , who happened to be male , what did he do ? |
| 15 | Any elderly crone , who happened to be ugly or misshapen enough to have repelled all potential husbands , and who was therefore forced to live a solitary life with no children of her own , often as an outcast on the edge of the village , was desperately in need of companionship . |
| 16 | By way of Nero and his brief successor Galba ( who happened to be 73 , which is Mr Healey 's present age ) , we arrived at a picture , on page 483 , of Mr Healey dressed as Father Christmas , which I suggested was deeply melancholy . |
| 17 | The Belgian authorities immediately commenced an investigation with the active participation of the UK accredited representative , Geoffrey Wilkinson ( who happened to be top of the list at the time ) , and his team of advisers comprising Geoffrey Feltham , who subsequently took over as head of the AIB engineering section , Jimmy Lett and the RAF consultant pathologists who normally worked with AIB . |
| 18 | But one happened to be free for a couple of hours along with the picture editor who cut Nicola 's last report . |
| 19 | I mean , we were young ; there happened to be more girls in the neighbourhood than boys , and we experimented — there was nothing vicious about it . |
| 20 | Nylons for the women , Coke for the kids and guns for the men to go on fighting ‘ Germins ’ or ‘ Reds ’ or whoever happened to be next in the firing line , that was William 's grandad 's uncluttered view of world history . |
| 21 | He seemed far more concerned to take money off the rich — especially if they happened to be Muslim . |
| 22 | To allege incompetence at playing the tuba would not lower most people in the eyes of their fellow citizens — unless they happened to be professional tubists . |
| 23 | After about 9 days at Gary and Kaye 's we moved to Caroline Lock 's ; she has a small flat under the house , and it happened to be vacant for a week . |
| 24 | But it happened to be true . ’ |
| 25 | It happened to be true . |
| 26 | It happened to be true , though . |
| 27 | It happened to be green . ’ |
| 28 | As has been seen , the choice of Pétain to command at Verdun was made less because of his qualities than because he happened to be available at the moment . |
| 29 | Ian was not over-bright , but he happened to be popular with the other boys as he was a good footballer and did quite well at sports generally . |