Example sentences of "[pers pn] happened to [be] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see , I happened to be born in this house , so naturally I take a rather personal interest in its occupants . ’ |
| 2 | Oh and I happened to be standing in the back kitchen you know and I got hold of this saucepan and I picked my little brother up and put him under my arm in case he got hurt and I oh I belted my father from his head to his feet with the saucepan . |
| 3 | I could n't see many people ; most of the lights had been turned off , and we happened to be sitting in the patch of light thrown by one small lamp . |
| 4 | Malcolm Rifkind , the Defence Secretary , intervened to say the army believed it would be ‘ grossly invidious for the choice of soldiers for redundancy to depend on whether at any given moment they happened to be serving in Northern Ireland , Bosnia , the UK or elsewhere ’ . |
| 5 | Sir Neill Cooper-Key , Lord Rothermere 's son-in-law , procured the safe Conservative seat of Hastings because , as a young army officer in 1945 he happened to be drinking in the bar of the Berkeley Hotel . |