Example sentences of "we [adv] happened " in BNC.
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| 1 | On our first night in France , exhausted after a ferry crossing , we just happened to fetch up in this little village on the Loire , in a hotel on the second floor of a hotel where , indeed , we opened the shutters — and we were looking at the west end of the Romanesque Abbey of St Benoit sur Loire , which is a most striking church where the remains of the saint are interred in a little casket in the crypt . |
| 2 | We were able to help him … we can see their house from our bedroom and we just happened to be looking out of the window at the time , do n't you know . ’ |
| 3 | I said I did n't know the other guys , we just happened to be in the same pub . |
| 4 | We just happened to be in the pool at the same time , that 's all . ’ |
| 5 | This friend of ours who lost his wife last year , well we 've got another friend who was very fond of her she also smokes we just happened to me we did n't say |
| 6 | say to th this chap you know but we just happened to mention in passing to Jeanette and she really jumped and said oh Pat did n't smoke a lot . |
| 7 | And we just happened to see it as were was coming back from Thurmaston we popped in and sa granddad got a |
| 8 | oh we just happened to be down town |