Example sentences of "[noun] just happened " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spencer just happened to have in his bottom drawer , as it were , a spare Centaurus engine . |
| 2 | The auto industry just happened to be a convenient sector in which to show his determination to change ( Doner , 1987 ; Oman , 1989 : pp. 164–166 ) . |
| 3 | I began to feel I was really homing in on the answer : involuntary spasms had sent those lifeless appendages hopping about the turret like bingo balls on a current of air … until their trajectories just happened to coincide with not-wall , not-floor , not-ceiling ( which I quickly worked out was better than a one in three shot every hop ) . |
| 4 | If Dorothy gave a party , and it was only a small party , it was an effort , and she appeared to be tired of it all , to have forgotten how , in the sixties and early seventies , parties just happened . |
| 5 | Sue just happened to mention that she had been to an orphanage in Brasov and Christine realised it was the same one that Christine Morey had written about . |
| 6 | But if , by sheer coincidence , all the molecules just happened to move in the same direction at the same moment , the hand would move . |
| 7 | Oh , by the way , ’ Luke said , locking the door behind them , ‘ Bob Tilling in Accounts just happened to mention the other day that you had settled an invoice for a piece we made for a client in Sherwood Forest . ’ |
| 8 | His pet tortoise just happened to choose the ‘ Matter Does n't Matter ’ chamber as a suitable spot for hibernation . |
| 9 | Beccaria just happened to think it was . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | I 've actually seen them only once — Lawrence and I wandered in there one morning– the torch beam just happened to fall on a clutch of them sitting tight on the wall , right by my ear . |
| 12 | But back then … well , I thought things just happened — you know the saying , Mei fa tzu , it 's fate . |
| 13 | He said he 'd put them at a friend 's house for safe keeping , and the friend just happened to have gone away on holiday . |
| 14 | Remember Ma Christie , our Norwegian Pathfinder , who wondered at how his crew just happened to appear as though from some mystique of chance ; how Middleton said in effect " my crew is the best in the Command … leave them be or I return to the Main Force " . |
| 15 | The puppet is an exhibit at a cartoon gallery in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the real Mr Heseltine just happened to be passing through . |
| 16 | Pilkington disliked the impression conveyed that these friendly personalities just happened to be recommending products as though they were disinterested parties . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Applecross just happened to be central when Xenly was divided and so became the only building to be shared by each community . |
| 19 | Once she 'd taken a room in a village where the bus just happened to stop . |
| 20 | The police just happened to be checking cars today . |
| 21 | Do you really believe that the first contact after weeks of silence just happened by sheer coincidence to fall on the same day as your arrival here ? |
| 22 | Unless … it was a small hope … unless the idea of hunting from London to York just happened to catch their imagination . |
| 23 | ‘ Well the strangest thing just happened . |
| 24 | Since there is also other well known evidence collected by Sachs , Kirkpatrick , Zaslaw and others from L'Affilard , Pajot , la Chapelle , Marguet , Quantz , Pasquali , Choquel , Engramelle et al. , indicating that from 1717 to 1775 minuets were danced both fast and slow , anywhere between MM 53 and 80 per bar , is it really likely that it was only during the 1780s that musicians of the time just happened to slow down the minuet , playing only the bottom side of minuet tempos and not the top side then to speed up again afterwards by the 1790s and 1800s ? |