Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] happened to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not imagine what sort of place this gentleman imagined he was coming to in bringing the latter , but I must say it struck something of an odd note to see in Darlington Hall these two large silent men staring suspiciously in all directions a few yards from wherever the Italian gentleman happened to be . |
| 2 | Numerous such accidents happened whilst igniting , for if the slow fuze happened to be not so slow , or the miner inadvertently touched the straw with his candle , then he might have but a few impossible seconds to make good his escape . |
| 3 | ONE of the Spanish flunkies approached the Princess Royal in Barcelona last week when the Royal Box happened to be empty and suggested she sit there . |
| 4 | The local MP happened to be Michael Heseltine , who knows a thing or two about campaigning . |
| 5 | We even excuse ourselves a smile at the Catholic priest who tells of how he , being an incompetent tennis player , accidentally mishit a shot that flew into an adjacent court where a black man happened to be playing . |
| 6 | When the advocates of a pro-Israeli policy happened to be Jewish , says the Jewish Mr Teicher , the Arabists did not hesitate to whisper ‘ dual loyalty ’ . |
| 7 | A Phocaean aristocrat happened to be the guest of the king of the Ligurian tribe of the Segobrigi when the king 's daughter was made to choose a husband at a banquet . |
| 8 | I suppose no other curate happened to be in poor health at that time . ’ |