Sentence examples for had chanced upon from inspiring English sources

He had chanced upon the cashier's gun, and playfully pointed it at Ida, not knowing it was loaded.

Thinking he had chanced upon a good subject for a documentary, he called his film-student friend Chaim.

He cited an old novel he had chanced upon that gave him hope: "Desperate Characters," by Paula Fox.

Several years before, I had chanced upon his Piano Concerto – it was paired on a disc with another Romantic concerto that I'd wanted to buy.

In a charming spoken introduction Mr. Runge told the audience how he had chanced upon a recording of Mr. Kapustin's rhapsodic piano works.

In 1947, an Arab shepherd had chanced upon the first scrolls – texts written in ancient Hebrew and its sister language Aramaic – in a cave in the cliffs along the north-west shore of the Dead Sea.

Speech, then, is a responsive and creative act in which we discover things about ourselves, each other, and the world itself which we would never have chanced upon had we not the power to reframe the universe through speech speech accounts for our unpredictable nature.

I am glad to have chanced upon this article while surfing for reviews on the Les Miserable.

Their horns have become trophies for the few hunters who have chanced upon them.

Having chanced upon it three weeks ago, she planned her latest trip to include a stop.

However, it would be fascinating to explore further this notion that Ukip may have chanced upon this fourth quadrant.