Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] happened to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we were all hay fever prone , then whenever we happened to be in a place where the pollen count was high , our eyes would start streaming and our noses running . |
| 2 | Yeah I se well I happened to be coming home from school cos I thought there was a the hearse coming and then I watched two mourning cars two flashy great big things ! |
| 3 | I know because many years ago I happened to be in the right place , in the ambulance I was driving at the right time and was able to e effect a rescue of an old woman from her smoke filled house at Burstill Ten minutes later I could not have done it because of the smoke . |
| 4 | Today she happened to be wearing the dress of violet-coloured wool which was the last thing Miss Statham had made for her — drifts of its full skirt could be seen at the front of her grey squirrel coat . |
| 5 | Initially I happened to be watching a monitor at the BBC on which was an item about a group of French musicians who played their music on glass tubes . |
| 6 | We had coffee , talked of the gardens and of plants difficult to grow in chalky soil — but nothing personal was said on either side , nor any thought of how she happened to be with me . |
| 7 | It was one evening when I happened to be valeting him , Mr Charles told me he had come across my father some years earlier while a guest at Loughborough House — the home of Mr John Silvers , the industrialist , where my father served for fifteen years at the height of his career . |
| 8 | In South Island where I happened to be , validation is available only from the Canterbury Aero Club at Christchurch Airport . |
| 9 | Cork is where I happened to be born . |
| 10 | So did old Mike , and anyone else who happened to be in the shop . |
| 11 | Before any plank was put into place , MacAlpine and Tom and anyone else who happened to be about held a consultation over it . |
| 12 | It was a massive vehicle with a 3.3 litre diesel engine , and it was marvellous because we could park for the night where we happened to be . |
| 13 | On other days , he tended to have lunch either at the Reform or at the Oxford and Cambridge Club ; to judge by his correspondence , there were few occasions when he happened to be " free " and he was forced to arrange regular times in order to see close friends like Herbert Read . |
| 14 | Her heart was beating wildly as it had for days whenever the telephone bell rang anywhere she happened to be . |
| 15 | The authorities had no option but to suspend the League , replacing it with three regional leagues in which men could play as amateurs , receiving only a token payment plus expenses , wherever they happened to be stationed . |
| 16 | Since Jasper and Bienvida never went to bed until Tina did but fell asleep wherever they happened to be , Jarvis hardly took this protest seriously . |
| 17 | Candidates had to write down what they felt would most help them improve their lives and these suggestions were forwarded to the Prince in the diplomatic bag to wherever he happened to be in the world ; he then chose whom the money should go to . |
| 18 | Wattling 's father was in the army , and his mother spent half of the year in Singapore or wherever he happened to be stationed , so his state was even more bereft than Tilney 's , whose parents were divorced but whose father was stationed less than fifty miles away . |