Example sentences of "[adv] happened that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It so happened that the dresser at the Shield gave notice , and Dinah decided that she herseelf could teach Lilian to make herself useful in that and other ways . |
| 2 | It so happened that the firm I had been working for ( manufacturers of rubber-coats , ground-sheets , etc. ) had closed down the Glasgow Office and factory , and I was without work . |
| 3 | It so happened that the crossing sweeper had blood of the same group as this rich Brahmin lady . |
| 4 | Now if it so happened that the A sixty one was seen as a marginally shorter route , then the model would have sent all the through traffic along the A s sixty one and none along around the bypass . |
| 5 | It so happened that the summer was an exceptionally hot one , the yield of tomatoes in the region was unusually high , and " taking advantage of this wonderful opportunity , two thousand 2 kilo cans of crushed tomato were manufactured and despatched at once to the Savoy Hotel . " |
| 6 | It so happened that the novelist 's wife had a younger brother at this Academy who knew Ivanov . |
| 7 | ‘ It just so happened that the Rachel killing was at that time . ’ |
| 8 | It so happened that the results were incredibly good — 29 out of 30 pupils passed in the English Language paper , 27 in English Literature … |
| 9 | It so happened that the Gulf War in Kuwait was filling our attention , and so I switched on a video tape whenever something attracted me and I found that I would be most likely to record the daily sessions on the BBC 's Newsnight with Peter Snow discussing the disposition of troops over the battle zone using a visual aid which is now known as the sandpit . |
| 10 | It so happened that the Missions to the Adult Deaf and Dumb of Ireland were seeking a missionary , and Maginn applied for the position . |
| 11 | The forces of evil must have been working smoothly that day because it so happened that the spot he chose was the position within yards of the epicentre of terror that had frightened the railwaymen so many years earlier . |
| 12 | It so happened that the mainspring of my clockwork mouse had broken that very morning . |
| 13 | It so happened that the string hung on a sprig of an elder that grew out of the mote , and this confirmed them that ‘ t was the Devill . |
| 14 | It so happened that the UN Secretary-General , Perez de Cuellar , was himself a Peruvian . |
| 15 | ‘ For example , we recently looked at one that had come in where it just happened that the course staff needed two dozen luxury executive residential homes to accommodate them , with a lovely view of the 18th , of course . |
| 16 | In some earlier relations , notably those of the productive post-artisanal and the market professional , it indeed quite often happened that a work originated in a commission , from a bookseller or publisher . |