Example sentences of "[pron] happen to be an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I happen to be an extravert , so if I compensate by smoking this will keep me a perfectly balanced and healthy human being . |
| 2 | I 'm a big fan of Elton John , but I love all entertainers — I happen to be an entertainer-lover ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Something to do with the Second World War , Superintendent , which happens to be an area I 've written about myself . ’ |
| 4 | The only way that Father could do this was by giving his son the head of the first living creature he met , which happened to be an elephant . |
| 5 | ‘ Ethel , ’ continued Miss Hardbroom , ‘ just because you happen to be an excellent scholar and one of the most helpful members of my class , I do not expect you to lie your way out of a situation when it has become awkward . |
| 6 | Moral suasion caused the banks to discriminate between customers in a manner unrelated to their ordinary business relations : a customer who happened to be an exporter was eligible for funds , but an equally good customer who , say , imported manufactured consumer goods was deprived of necessary funds . |
| 7 | Any natural food creature , and you can include small fish in that category , can cause bream and other usually non-predatory species , to become preoccupied with that item when there happens to be an abundance of them . |
| 8 | A patient , he maintains , should not be expected to change his basic beliefs because the doctor who cured him happened to be an adherent of the Christian religion . |
| 9 | Well he happens to be an old flame of Mummy 's . |
| 10 | And if as heir presumptive , he happens to be an angel as well — why should his bride complain ! ’ |
| 11 | Even a broken worm can kill , if it happens to be an adder . |
| 12 | He happened to be an unusually bright child and his mother had worked hard with him at home on spelling and reading . |