Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] happen to be [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Hincmar of Rheims wrote to give orders to a neighbouring count who just happened to be his kinsman : it is not hard to see how an archbishop might refer to the local counts collectively as " his " , or the draftsman of a capitulary write in general terms of " archbishops and their counts " .
2 Known throughout the army as ‘ le Capucin Botté ’ ( the Fighting Friar ) , in his entourage de Castelnau was always accompanied by his own private chaplain , a Rabelaisian Jesuit who also happened to be his nephew .
3 However , Tess began to find that the cows which came to her usually happened to be her favourites .
4 j it just happens to be one that I know about .
5 But it just happened to be her best friend 's birthday and she was invited to a special birthday tea and to stay overnight . ’
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