Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] happen to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The things I said may have been unjustified , and the fact that I just happened to be bloody tired and bad-tempered was no excuse . |
| 2 | They just put me up for it and I just happened to be about at the time . |
| 3 | She was going through a traumatic divorce at the time and it was obvious she needed someone to talk to and I just happened to be around . |
| 4 | and you just happen to be taller and heavier than James |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | I was received as a thief , a well-mannered rapist , bucketless car-washer , double-glazing runner , not to mention corrupt informant that some of them tiles is loose , Ma 'm , and we just happen to be in the area with a long ladder so why not call it eighty quid ? |
| 7 | And they just happen to be two of the best tracks . |
| 8 | And they just happen to be attached to a saint ! |
| 9 | If they also happen to be living alone , we can make all the difference to the monotony of their existence by arranging to take them out regularly . |
| 10 | I would n't say they were lucky against Oldham , but everything ran for them today , the underside of the crossbar and the post saved Charlton on a couple of occasions and as Simpson said I think ‘ Bolder on a couple of occasions really knew nothing about the saves he 'd made , they were point blank , and he just happened to be there . ’ |
| 11 | When you do this what you will see in the cell is either a 0 ( meaning False ) if what is actually in B10 is n't Bach or 1 ( meaning True ) if it just happens to be Bach . |
| 12 | ‘ as if he only happens to be with us by accident and could just as easily be amusing himself at some other job elsewhere . ’ |
| 13 | Actually , I 'd been waiting for somebody else but I just happened to be on hand and I could n't just stand there and watch her struggle with all those boxes , suitcases , typewriters , bicycles , stereo systems and so on . |
| 14 | Crofting made its impact when we moved house from one of the quiet streets , in the middle of the town , to the road which was planned by a wealthy proprietor as an elegant tree-lined approach to Lews Castle , but which also happened to be the shortest route between a dozen crofting villages , lying to the east of the town , and their 19,000 acres of general common pasture which lay to the west . |
| 15 | They will doubtless say we are lucky , but we just happen to be house-owners with a steady income , like millions of others . |
| 16 | It is big — but it also happens to be Japanese , and so presents a juicy target . |
| 17 | But it also happens to be true . |
| 18 | But it also happens to be true . |
| 19 | I know that 's very boring of me , but it just happens to be true , my dear . |
| 20 | But it just happened to be her best friend 's birthday and she was invited to a special birthday tea and to stay overnight . ’ |
| 21 | Within Christianity bread and wine are sacramental not because they just happened to be on the table for a Jewish meal but because they were signs of the covenant . |
| 22 | And also , the use of the yellow background , I do n't know , erm whether it was deliberately chosen or whether she just happened to be standing there , but the yellow background makes it stand out . |
| 23 | Now , she was n't sure whether she truly loved the Navaho , or whether he simply happened to be the only human being she had contact with . |
| 24 | As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me . |