| She had searched everywhere and by chance stumbled across Bert's pile of dirty laundry and saw it sticking out from underneath. |
| The Spotted Ox must be a well-kept secret by those in the know, we only found out about it by chance. |
| His gaze alighted on the journalist Eleanor Mills, by chance the stepdaughter of a Cabinet minister. |
| Then, quite by chance, he runs into a woman with whom he had a furtive adolescent relationship. |
| But Cora confesses that it was love at first sight, when the couple met by chance as teenagers, nine years ago. |
| Some of the greatest discoveries in history resulted by chance or accident and many as an unexpected periphery to the original intent. |
