Example sentences of "[subord] the [noun] happened [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In which case , if the informant happened to be working both sides of the fence , the connection might prove embarrassing for Asmar . |
| 2 | Especially if the wheel happened to be hers . |
| 3 | Behind him , Pipkin shivered in the damp and he turned and nuzzled him ; much as the general , with nothing left to do , might fall to considering the welfare of his servant , simply because the servant happened to be there . |
| 4 | We can see no reason why the court in the Leighton case should have regarded the equities as being any different , as between the mother and the chargees , merely because the land happened to be registered land . |
| 5 | And many an insect was saved , perhaps from the very same predator , by an uncannily close resemblance to a twig , on occasions when the predator happened to be seeing it at relatively close range and in a good light . |