Example sentences of "[pron] happen to " in BNC.
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| 31 | I happen to be the hero , you know . ’ |
| 32 | I 've been bald from a very early age , but I happen to be in the hairdressing industry and I travel all over the world teaching . |
| 33 | The sorts of things I happen to like , the sorts of things I happen to be good at or bad at . |
| 34 | Chair , we have through this , what we 've actually s what you 're actually saying there , because I , I happen to be of the view that when you ask for identification of five percent across all the committees and then you start to take that quite happily from the smaller spend committee , then clearly you 're in a position where you have to address the er , question , do we really want to provide this service at all , and that would be tragic in the case of economic development , because it 's so vital to the erm , economic development of the county as a whole , and so , yes , there , I would suggest that there 's clearly the need to be a corporate view , and a corporate er , er , will to actually put up resources at your disposal , er , er , especially since five B was n't actually , although it was it had n't actually been granted , so it was a bit of an unknown quantity when perhaps the first P A G erm , sat and deliberated . |
| 35 | Er you will I think have one problem er in working for the L E A. Erm I happen to be a school aid inspector and I 'm finding now quite a with er with the income tax people at the moment |
| 36 | Yes , like many of the others , I happen to be one of the ones who did go up there and take a look at it , erm , at the time , and I hope that the motion as er , not only to the county archivist but all the staff over there for the very hard work and diligent work of which they put in . |
| 37 | ‘ I happen to be a major shareholder in the station now , so that makes me your boss if you want it spelling out to you . |
| 38 | I 'm keen to make my mark on my own merits , not because I happen to be the chairman 's daughter ! ’ |
| 39 | You do n't honestly believe he 's got anything to do with the way I happen to be feeling , do you ? ’ |
| 40 | ‘ I happen to be here on holiday , Goody Two-Shoes . |
| 41 | I 'm a big fan of Elton John , but I love all entertainers — I happen to be an entertainer-lover ! ’ |
| 42 | ‘ I happen to be one of those people who likes to see the game played at its highest level and a great opportunity has now been lost for Scotland . |
| 43 | Yes , it 's the i I mean , I , I happen to be a delegate to national conference as well , so I ha I actually have two of these brochures . |
| 44 | if I happen to be awake at that time , then yes , but , if I do n't have |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Charles wanted his protégé in and as I was the resident ( and unpopular ) Baroque sculpture specialist , I happened to be in the way . |
| 47 | I happened to be the last person of my family there . |
| 48 | Beatrice described his assaults in her fluent , showy style , the nights when Modigliani came home drunk : ‘ If I happened to be drunk too , there was a great scene ! |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | I happened to be walking past the kitchen yesterday when I heard you calling to someone named William . ’ |
| 51 | This occurred on take-off one evening and I happened to be in the Met Office at the time . |
| 52 | He would burst into the office singing , and if I happened to be there he would rush over and ruffle my hair , and exclaim , ‘ Here she is , the wee lassie ! |
| 53 | And I 'm awfully glad I happened to be passing . |
| 54 | In South Island where I happened to be , validation is available only from the Canterbury Aero Club at Christchurch Airport . |
| 55 | ‘ Oh , Mrs Markham , ’ a Mrs Prothero and President of the Women 's Institute said one day , ‘ I happened to be passing and just wanted to extend a welcome on behalf of the whole village . ’ |
| 56 | You see , I happened to be born in this house , so naturally I take a rather personal interest in its occupants . ’ |
| 57 | Storm Jameson , a woman novelist active in the peace movement , later recalled : ‘ For some years after 1933 I lived in equivocal amity with pacifists and combative supporters of the League of Nations , adjusting my feelings , in good and bad faith , to the person I happened to be with . |
| 58 | ‘ I happened to be in Annabel 's nightclub last year when a path was opened for Fergie and a man yelled ‘ hi ’ to me and introduced her highness saying ‘ Hey Tak , bow to the Duchess of York and say hello . ’ |
| 59 | ‘ I happened to be in the area and Lucasta Redburn 's not a common name , especially in a town the size of Plumford . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ I happened to be passing — hope you do n't mind me barging in like this . |