Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] happened to " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if you happened to be out of the house working it was too bad , unless you got a house cleaner to put your name down for you . |
| 2 | Especially if they happened to be Paris , Venice or Florence . |
| 3 | He seemed far more concerned to take money off the rich — especially if they happened to be Muslim . |
| 4 | ‘ And imagine what it must have been like before all those modern office ‘ towers ’ were built to dwarf it — especially if you happened to be a traitor . |
| 5 | For some reason he was always referred to as " The Threarah " — perhaps because there happened to be only one threar , or rowan , near the warren , from which he took his name . |
| 6 | They are going it alone not only because they happened to " get caught out " , but because it is an alternative to aimless adolescence on the dole . |
| 7 | But this was achieved only because she happened to be a good listener , and , after a few leading questions about his earlier life in the high , mountainous country of the South Island , he talked almost non-stop . |
| 8 | Everything had an improvised , random air about it , as if people had erected new machines just where they happened to be standing at the time , next to the debris of the old . |
| 9 | It 's just that I happened to . |
| 10 | And did he have to flaunt his sexual prowess with her as well , just because she happened to be female , and happened to be there ? |
| 11 | Are they there for some special purpose or just because there happened to be a nail on the wall for them to hang on ? |
| 12 | The reason why absenteeism was non-existent on Thursdays was not just because it happened to be pay day . |
| 13 | He was glad that Henry had n't waived the charge altogether ; you would n't expect an electrician to rewire your house for free , just because you happened to be acquainted . |
| 14 | Basically you 'd er just stand back and ha Actually in my platoon of fifty men it happened to me more than it happened to anybody else because I came from Glasgow . |
| 15 | He was famous simply because he happened to be the Prince of Wales ; and in his darker moments he felt that charities and organizations only wanted him because of his name . |
| 16 | For instance , taking a semi-detached house worth £60,000 in Milton Keynes and a semi-detached house also worth £60,000 in Northampton , the household in Northampton would pay £88 more in tax simply because it happened to be across the regional boundary . |
| 17 | ‘ With a three-stroke lead it 's almost inevitable that you start to look ahead and it happened to me . ’ |
| 18 | I do n't know whether it affects anyone else but what happened to me was that for the first time in my adult life I began to feel part of a community . |