Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] happened to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Robert , who was by now learning the basic rule that if anybody said anything interesting it was probably Muhammad , would ask if by any chance it just happened to be a saying of the Prophet , to which the headmaster would reply , his eyes shining , ‘ That 's it ! |
| 2 | Anything could have sparked the riots , it just happened to be the injustice of Rodney King 's trial that triggered it this time . |
| 3 | It just happened to be the one which caused the glass to become overfilled and which caused the body to begin to signal being under excessive stress . |
| 4 | We made love , it just happened to be the first time for me . |
| 5 | 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 . |