Context: I was walking home one day and was passing a house that had been empty for a while.  As I was passing a very large dog came charging out barking very loudly at me.
Speaker 1: I was walking home one time and a really big dog came charging out from a house at me barking really loudly.
Speaker 2: Sometimes dogs just bark a lot. Did anything happen?
Speaker 1: Thankfully not really, it stopped near me and barked a lot until someone got it, but it was really frightening until it was retrieved.
Speaker 2: Thank goodness. I'd be scared, too. You can't really know whether a dog is harmless or not sometimes.