Example sentences of "[pron] happen to be [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I happen to be here on holiday , Goody Two-Shoes . |
| 2 | Chair , the letters that do go , the majority of the letters that go to MPs and members are signed by me , though they 're prepared by the officer who 's the expert in different fields , but these two letters went when I happened to be away from the department , and that 's fair enough , I 'd rather they went than sat around waiting for my return . |
| 3 | Cos I happened to be out on Road , when it happened |
| 4 | Detective Sergeant Brian Jackson was driving through the more prosperous part of Long Eaton , a village on the outskirts of Nottingham which happened to be just over the Derbyshire border . |
| 5 | You receive a telephone call from the husband of a guest who happens to be out for a stroll . |
| 6 | So if you happened to be out of the house working it was too bad , unless you got a house cleaner to put your name down for you . |
| 7 | If anything if if it does You see again and then you see if you 're out of a job you see you if you happen to be out of a job then you 're not eligible for a pension policy . |
| 8 | We got all the details from Peggy , who happened to be there at the time , when she popped down later to the Met Office for a reviving cup of coffee and dash of medicinal brandy . |
| 9 | They had an interest in playing golf together so specifically formed a society giving it the name of the road they happened to be in at the time — Worple Way , Harrow . |
| 10 | ‘ To howl down a man just because he happens to be out of form one day is often sufficient to discourage him for all time , ’ he told the Yorkshire Evening Post . |