Example sentences of "just happened to be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I just happened to be with Nick Simpkin .
2 Both men had leapt to their feet and had been restrained from using violence by the mates of the shop steward , who just happened to be on hand .
3 Within Christianity bread and wine are sacramental not because they just happened to be on the table for a Jewish meal but because they were signs of the covenant .
4 The grass was lucky if it grew , was shone upon and rained upon , and was not burned , and was not pulled up by the roots , or poisoned , or buried when the ground was turned over , and some bits just happened to be on a line that humans wanted to walk on , and so got trampled , broken , pressed flat , with no malice ; just effect .
5 I wanted to ‘ do ’ someone I knew a little , but when I approached my number one seed , he served me up Roy as a better choice ( Roy just happened to be on holiday so not able to comment ) .
6 Actually , I 'd been waiting for somebody else but I just happened to be on hand and I could n't just stand there and watch her struggle with all those boxes , suitcases , typewriters , bicycles , stereo systems and so on .
7 He just happened to be in this area on the night of Rob 's party .
8 They just happened to be in the right place at the right time .
9 I said I did n't know the other guys , we just happened to be in the same pub .
10 Years later , even , when 617 just happened to be in my Canberra Wing at Binbrook after the war , oddly enough both Nos 617 and 9 Squadrons found themselves together in my four-squadron wing .
11 ‘ I just happened to be in the corridor .
12 ‘ I just happened to be in the right place at the right time . ’
13 We just happened to be in the pool at the same time , that 's all . ’
14 He just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time . ’
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