Example sentences of "we happen [prep] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't see many people ; most of the lights had been turned off , and we happened to be sitting in the patch of light thrown by one small lamp . |
| 2 | We happened to be talking about the diary habit which , nowadays , seems to be largely confined to politicians . ’ |
| 3 | It does n't take too much imagination to guess that this means ‘ draw a circle centred at x = 10.5 , y = 24.75 , and of radius 3.9 , in whatever units we happen to be using at the moment ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ We happen to be staying in the same place , and I 'm damned if I 'm keeping awake waiting for you to turn up . |
| 5 | Well , we do see a good deal of what is around us and not simply whatever it is that we happen to be staring at . |
| 6 | Thus the name " Shakespeare " rigidly refers to Shakespeare , irrespective of whether we happen to be talking about what Shakespeare did or wrote , or did not do or write but might have done or written , i.e. about his actual or merely possible attributes . |