| He'd often lucked into local publicity by pushing the limits of good taste, but he'd never actually set out to provoke. |
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| I lucked upon a seat, settled in, nodded off and 20 minutes later heard my name being called by the admitting nurse. |
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| Well, first of all, you have to get the right ones, and we really lucked into these three. |
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| There was a time when I thought I had just lucked out, but now I'm starting to appreciate the amount of work it took. |
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| I must have lucked out, my first three West End records are still my favourite. |
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| She lucked out here with a better cast, and Malkovich is clearly having too much fun playing the villainous, devilish aesthete Ripley. |
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| So we were around for the beginning of it and we just happened to have lucked into doing this retrospective. |
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| And I lucked out, actually, because there were around 5 sets of exams, and I happened to get the one with the stuff I knew. |
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| After a few years of temporary offices, I somehow lucked into a very nice office that I happily settled into. |
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| And I think that's the answer is, boy, they just lucked into a great spot half way between New York and Boston. |
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| I'll tell you, if he is anything like Ronny, you will have really lucked out. |
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| Also, I lucked into a few things that helped me cope, that maybe someone else in a similar situation could benefit from. |
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| I'd never even heard of them before but I really lucked out. |
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| The easy explanation for Santorum's unlikely rise is that he lucked into it. |
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| She lucked out that day, however, nothing much really happened except for her mother flittering about, consulting with nurses and her father brooding, watching warily. |
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| Still, the United States has strategized or lucked its way into the most auspicious moment to negotiate a political solution since the war began. |
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| Citroën eventually went alphanumerical, too, and lucked out with the name of its DS19 saloon. |
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| And as anyone with more than candyfloss for brains can see, it's Clooney who has lucked out here. |
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| It makes her seem like your next-door neighbour who lucked out and became a billionaire. |
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| Finally, he lucked out with Logan – who won the Eurovision Song Contest twice. |
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| Healthy individuals had lucked out while their sick relatives simple ended up with a bad genetic roll of the dice. |
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| I felt that I had lucked into it all, that somehow it wasn't quite fair. |
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| If Franklin had lucked into a royal audience, might he have persuaded the King to ignore firebrands like Wilkes and do the right thing by America? |
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| All I'm saying is that if it's good, we lucked into it, and if it's bad, we're stuck with a system intended for circumstances quite different from our own. |
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| Yet it was a role the 26-year-old actress insists she lucked into. |
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| I really lucked into this and was able to get out of the other deal. |
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| We lucked into spotting a tiny Winter Wren while visiting the East Pond. |
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| Someone who retired on, say, January 1, 2000, might have lucked out. |
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| You know, for a number of years there, I sort of lucked out and worked on the edge of science on a number of different projects. |
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| We just lucked into it and we're running with it. |
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| Mr. Jones lucked into assembling a capable cast. |
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| The Canadian riders lucked out with the qualifying seed for the Finals, and will have riders in five of the eight qualifying heats in the first round. |
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| I lucked out in one sense because the script has been revised by Jack O'Brien. |
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| I moved to Dorval in 1981 in search of green grass and fresh air close to the city for our 15-month old, and very quickly realized we had lucked into an exceptional community. |
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| Not a wise move and made me insanely jealous that my partner had lucked out with his New York cheesecake with rhubarb compote and butter keks. |
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| They lucked out and drew the final spot of the Team Free event, and they will be looking to close out the Synchro portion of the Games with another podium performance! |
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| I knew they served homeless Indians who'd lucked into money. |
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| But if I judge from my first month here, I think I've lucked out again. |
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| I worked with Mr. Carrie on a previous committee. I can see that he lucked out and got in on a very studious and cooperative group of individuals. |
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