Example sentences of "[pers pn] happened to [be] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beatrice described his assaults in her fluent , showy style , the nights when Modigliani came home drunk : ‘ If I happened to be drunk too , there was a great scene ! |
| 2 | Yeah I se well I happened to be coming home from school cos I thought there was a the hearse coming and then I watched two mourning cars two flashy great big things ! |
| 3 | He ran both hands up into the roots of her hair , which she happened to be wearing down , and tried to plant a kiss on her forehead . |
| 4 | Martin Martin notes that on a small rocky island to the south of Skye there is ‘ a great quantity of scurvey-grass , of an extraordinary size , and very thick ; the natives eat it frequently , as well boiled as raw : two of them told me that they happened to be confined there for the space of thirty hours , by a contrary wind ; and being without victuals , fell to eating this scurvey-grass , and finding it of a sweet taste , far different from the land scurvey-grass , they ate a large basketful of it , which did abundantly satisfy their appetites until their return home ’ . |
| 5 | So , putting it another way , you do n't agree with the principle of a new settlement , but if it happened to be found elsewhere , other than Hambledon , you 'd let it ride ? |