Example sentences of "[noun] just [vb past] to be " in BNC.

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1 The auto industry just happened to be a convenient sector in which to show his determination to change ( Doner , 1987 ; Oman , 1989 : pp. 164–166 ) .
2 You see sometimes Boy , like all of us , sometimes Boy just wanted to be taken care of without having done anything to deserve it .
3 That pretty girl just had to be Gaynor Summer 's sister , and , sure enough , that was where she went .
4 ‘ Willy Thorne , for example took part in a ProAm game at Alsager and insisted that one of the three charities who were to receive donations just had to be the Rainbow Trust and that meant £1,400 cheque .
5 I wanted to ‘ do ’ someone I knew a little , but when I approached my number one seed , he served me up Roy as a better choice ( Roy just happened to be on holiday so not able to comment ) .
6 If she was going to qualify for Wembley , she was going to have to do it on her own and Midnight just had to be good enough .
7 Refrigeration was in its infancy , so that perishable goods just had to be sold which meant that prices were gradually reduced in the hour or so before closing time .
8 The puppet is an exhibit at a cartoon gallery in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the real Mr Heseltine just happened to be passing through .
9 Pilkington disliked the impression conveyed that these friendly personalities just happened to be recommending products as though they were disinterested parties .
10 Life just had to be raced and there really was no way of climbing through the lavatory window to get out of it .
11 The grass was lucky if it grew , was shone upon and rained upon , and was not burned , and was not pulled up by the roots , or poisoned , or buried when the ground was turned over , and some bits just happened to be on a line that humans wanted to walk on , and so got trampled , broken , pressed flat , with no malice ; just effect .
12 This call just had to be an act of purest derision , a flaunting of how well this enemy had foretold Jaq 's actions — or even was psychically alert to Jaq 's whereabouts .
13 Applecross just happened to be central when Xenly was divided and so became the only building to be shared by each community .
14 The police just happened to be checking cars today .
15 But the star of the show just had to be Boy George , who was so inspired , he bought the outfit he modelled .
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