You and I merely happen to be the handiest tools.

He wouldn't believe that things merely happened around me.

It merely happens that you are too useful to die, at present.

He never planned on a career as a musician, it merely happened.

They merely happened to be in a place the truck had to pass by.

I merely happen to be an envoy scheduled for torture.

He merely happened to put it down on zero.

So far, we merely happen to be extraordinarily under exploited.

It merely happens that I possess more life than you can ever reach the end of.

It merely happened to be Carrie who was courtesying before him.