Example sentences of "if they happen [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Especially if they happened to be Paris , Venice or Florence . |
| 2 | Alison had rung to say that she was coming up to London for an appointment and could they lunch at a restaurant to which they had both occasionally gone when working at Brentwoods , if they happened to be feeling affluent . |
| 3 | Long acquaintance with the clergy had convinced him that priests could not tell one layman from the next if they happened to be on their own administrative staff . |
| 4 | He seemed far more concerned to take money off the rich — especially if they happened to be Muslim . |
| 5 | These are the people who do n't consider what 's going on in your mind , merely what goes on your feet ( the London club Kazoo turns people away if they happen to be wearing Wallabees ) . |
| 6 | However , despite its diminutive size , it is well able to fend for itself in a mixed community tank , protecting its territory against all comers , even if they happen to be twice its size . |
| 7 | A third party may be confident that the member States behind the organisation are secure debtors , particularly if they happen to be the main industrial powers of the world . |
| 8 | Remember also that most lecturers ( if they happen to be your examiners ) feel a strong revulsion and antipathy when they find their own cherished and " brilliant " arguments re-presented in a bowdlerised fashion from inadequate notes and a poor flogged memory . |
| 9 | and jobs because of the way they look particularly if they happen to be |
| 10 | Soon children will be lending each other America is Falling Down in which Michael Douglas , a disillusioned middle-class businessman , grabs his gun and storms a merry path through the city , showering bullets like confetti on anyone who gets in his way : especially if they happen to be Korean or Cuban . |