Example sentences of "[noun sg] happened to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is that what it is– ’ Or if I was to see the doctor and my girlfriend happened to be seeing the doctor as well , this was just an excuse , according to them , for us to be together . |
| 2 | Numerous such accidents happened whilst igniting , for if the slow fuze happened to be not so slow , or the miner inadvertently touched the straw with his candle , then he might have but a few impossible seconds to make good his escape . |
| 3 | He 'd then possibly forgotten these dreams or fantasies and then when the stimulus of feeling something on the back of his neck happened to him whilst asleep , suddenly the fantasy came back , all as a piece as it were , and it occurred to me that your dream about driving off viaducts might be caused by being asleep , having one of these falling experiences , then relating it to previous thoughts you 'd had , you know on the freeway or something , oh my God , how awful it would be if I , if I drove off that bend below , do you know what I mean ? |
| 4 | The church had been chosen simply because its priest happened to be a friend of Eliot 's solicitor , who was also " best man " . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly , their most fanatical fan happened to be Steven Morrissey . |
| 6 | Especially if the wheel happened to be hers . |
| 7 | The marble happened to be perfect . |
| 8 | The Tranent folk had had a notion ( but look whit happened to them ) — say to the government , ‘ You can not trust us if ever you make us fight . ’ |
| 9 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 10 | In Wycliffe 's temporary office there was only one small , dirty window high up in the wall , but the sun happened to be shining through it and so his desk and chair were placed in a pool of sunlight . |
| 11 | Well — something of the kind happened to Walter , after the initial interest . ’ |
| 12 | After the wedding , they were taken for breakfast to the house of the officiating priest which by curious coincidence happened to be to Kensington Church Walk , where Ezra Pound had lived many years before . |
| 13 | A NETWORK hack and photographer happened to be passing by when they spotted a well-known accountant checking the INROADS mat . |
| 14 | ‘ It would cause endless difficulties if their decision happened to be misplaced , dozy or ill thought-out . ’ |
| 15 | But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground , and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place ; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given , that for anything I knew , the watch might have always been there . |
| 16 | The train at that moment happened to be rushing through a small country station and the boy , looking out , saw the stuff hit a porter smack in the face . |
| 17 | We arrived here yesterday from Flinders at which place I was especially gratified to [ word not clear ] my acquaintance with the Natives and other things , and I should have left the island with a light heart and proceeded to Kings had [ not ] a fatal accident happened to one of the men who shot himself dead by incautiously pulling the gun from the boat with the muzzle toward his chest , the cock of the gun caught the seat of the boat and all was over with the poor fellow in half a minute . |
| 18 | If there were spokes and the Scapegoat happened to be topside of them it could n't fall through . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Only one thing of importance happened to me in the Argentine . |
| 20 | The French relieve you of £1.05 in tax , 63 per cent of the £1.66 pump price you would be charged if diesel happened to be sold by the gallon in Calais . |
| 21 | ‘ This evening happened to be a mixing of some particularly important business with just a little pleasure . |
| 22 | The wine waiter happened to be carrying a very rare bottle indeed . |
| 23 | Bishop Farquhar said that it was a matter of history which part of that circle happened to be passing by as it cut through the life of the Edwards family . |
| 24 | If a coincidence of this magnitude happened to me , I should call it a miracle and would watch my language in future . |
| 25 | Before Bob Mould happened to the world of American rock'n'roll there were two nations . |
| 26 | She said it would only be a little party : herself and Freddie , one of her flat mates , called Pauline — the other happened to be away — and Pauline 's boyfriend . |
| 27 | I can not imagine what sort of place this gentleman imagined he was coming to in bringing the latter , but I must say it struck something of an odd note to see in Darlington Hall these two large silent men staring suspiciously in all directions a few yards from wherever the Italian gentleman happened to be . |
| 28 | I suppose no other curate happened to be in poor health at that time . ’ |
| 29 | The best person happened to be disabled . |
| 30 | I met at this time a number of adopted children , and realised that the problems we all faced were similar , whatever the child 's colour happened to be . |