English example sentences with "chanced"

I chanced to see him in town.
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I chanced on a beautiful girl.
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I chanced to meet him at the airport.
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I chanced to be working there.
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It chanced that I met him at the airport.
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I chanced talking to her.
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It chanced that we were both traveling on the same train.
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I chanced to see her on the street.
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He chanced on a rare book at a second-hand bookstore.
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In the middle of the crowd I chanced to catch a sight of Madonna.
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It chanced that this Hugo came to love (if, indeed, so dark a passion may be known under so bright a name) the daughter of a yeoman who held lands near the Baskerville estate. But the young maiden, being discreet and of good repute, would ever avoid him, for she feared his evil name.
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'If the name / of Palamedes thou hast chanced to hear, / old Belus' progeny, if ever came / to thee or thine in talk the rumour of his fame, / whom, pure of guilt, on charges false and feigned, / wroth that his sentence should the war prevent, / by perjured witnesses the Greeks arraigned, / and doomed to die, but now his death lament.'
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With cornel shrubs and many a prickly spear / of myrtle crowned, it chanced a mound was near.
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Within a grove Andromache that day, / where Simois in fancy flowed again, / her offerings chanced at Hector's grave to pay, / a turf-built cenotaph, with altars twain, / source of her tears and sacred to the slain – / and called his shade.
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Who knows what would have become of me if I hadn't chanced upon Tom that crisp spring morning.
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A person of noble character neither trembles in the face of calamities nor elates when blessings are chanced upon.
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Whilst visiting London, walking in the neighbourhood of the Barbican Centre, I chanced upon a fish and chip shop, where I ordered ravishing fish and chips, wrapped in newspaper. I could get nothing like it back in North America.
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It wasn't long before we chanced to meet again.
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When, therefore, having noted that the packet bore the postmark of Christminster, he cut the string, opened the volumes, and turned to the Latin grammar, which chanced to come uppermost, he could scarcely believe his eyes.
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