Example sentences of "i happen to be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I know how we got talking to this girl in the Post Office cos I erm I asked her for some stamps as well , you see , I wanted some cos I happen to be sending stuff of for Germany tomorrow . |
| 2 | Look , I happen to be calling at the office this afternoon . |
| 3 | But I happen to be living here . ’ |
| 4 | President , I I happen to be going on Saturday to the National Final of the Rotary Young Inventor of the Years ' er convention this |
| 5 | You do n't honestly believe he 's got anything to do with the way I happen to be feeling , do you ? ’ |
| 6 | If I happen to be pondering them when about to cross the street , and the green light has changed to yellow , ‘ Be aware ’ resumes all its authority ; never mind that at another level of discourse physics dismisses colour as subjective , unreal . |
| 7 | I happen to be embarking on a motoring trip during the course of which I hope to see many splendid views . |
| 8 | And I 'm awfully glad I happened to be passing . |
| 9 | ‘ I happened to be passing — hope you do n't mind me barging in like this . |
| 10 | I was confusing those regulations with some others , because I happened to be dealing with the lack of adequate time for the disability working regulations . |
| 11 | Initially I happened to be watching a monitor at the BBC on which was an item about a group of French musicians who played their music on glass tubes . |
| 12 | It was one evening when I happened to be valeting him , Mr Charles told me he had come across my father some years earlier while a guest at Loughborough House — the home of Mr John Silvers , the industrialist , where my father served for fifteen years at the height of his career . |
| 13 | I happened to be looking for somewhere to mount a small African sculpture I had bought and came upon De Biasi in Tottenham Mews just off Tottenham Court Toad . |
| 14 | Oh and I happened to be standing in the back kitchen you know and I got hold of this saucepan and I picked my little brother up and put him under my arm in case he got hurt and I oh I belted my father from his head to his feet with the saucepan . |
| 15 | At that time I happened to be running the scheme as a leader and officer in the Stornoway Sea Cadet Corps and the boy 's mother had asked me to attend in her place . |
| 16 | I happened to be walking past the kitchen yesterday when I heard you calling to someone named William . ’ |
| 17 | He was exiting the Commons Chamber at the end of Prime Minister 's Question Time and I happened to be walking along the corridor which he was entering . |
| 18 | Yeah I se well I happened to be coming home from school cos I thought there was a the hearse coming and then I watched two mourning cars two flashy great big things ! |