Example sentences of "[adv] happen to " in BNC.
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| 61 | ‘ I just happen to be the exception . ’ |
| 62 | Fil continues : ‘ We just happen to be in this bit … ( much laughter ) … of no money and knowing what it 's like to have no prospects . |
| 63 | And they just happen to be two of the best tracks . |
| 64 | And they just happen to be attached to a saint ! |
| 65 | I was received as a thief , a well-mannered rapist , bucketless car-washer , double-glazing runner , not to mention corrupt informant that some of them tiles is loose , Ma 'm , and we just happen to be in the area with a long ladder so why not call it eighty quid ? |
| 66 | Very often , these mutually unintelligible and exclusive ethnic cultures just happen to be the same as the groups which common sense tells us are ‘ races ’ . |
| 67 | Endless ads have been Green or organic , from the guy who rips his plans up to wreck the countryside and earns himself a beer , to the couple in the deodorant ad who just happen to be frolicking naked in the forest with camouflage make-up . |
| 68 | We just happen to be more lucky at laying hands on them than most . |
| 69 | It helps if you play for Swindon Town , or just happen to be a Formula One motor racing champion , but could we persuade Peter to add a Television Presenter to his collection ? |
| 70 | And some of them are good fun pop in their own right they just happen to be done in a foreign language and with different cultural influences . |
| 71 | They will doubtless say we are lucky , but we just happen to be house-owners with a steady income , like millions of others . |
| 72 | They just happen to be transmitted differently . ’ |
| 73 | and you just happen to be taller and heavier than James |
| 74 | Wait till you hear what fucking happened to us on Sunday , |
| 75 | The bombardier beetle 's ancestors simply pressed into different service chemicals that already happened to be around . |
| 76 | It was surely part of her duty to find out what finally happened to the seductive female spread out on the front cover . |
| 77 | Both men had leapt to their feet and had been restrained from using violence by the mates of the shop steward , who just happened to be on hand . |
| 78 | One of the two witnesses , who also just happened to be the convener , Fred Clasper , claimed that a second warning note was unjustified as the foreman had been knocked down unintentionally . |
| 79 | BBS seriously considered firing Hopper ; the pressure of moving a production team of twenty-three people from state to state , writing the script on the run and persuading innocent citizens of the United States of America who just happened to be passing at the time to appear in the movie , was a heavy burden for all . |
| 80 | Maybe it was n't even him that took my bag — maybe it was one of those American tourists or someone I did n't even see , and Dayglo here — Vern — just happened to be running along the wharf . |
| 81 | They just put me up for it and I just happened to be about at the time . |
| 82 | ‘ I just happened to be around some great players and be part of a great team ’ , he said with typical modesty . |
| 83 | To get the tickets you had to sign up for a complete tour and hospitality package , available through Travelforce , a travel agency in Durban — of which the then President of the Natal Rugby Union , and member of the Executive of the ( former ) SARB , just happened to be a director . |
| 84 | This continent seems to have been created by Augustus Le Plongeon for his 1896 novel Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphynx , which he claimed was based on original Mayan writings — which writings , of course , just happened to be unavailable to other scholars . |
| 85 | Anything could have sparked the riots , it just happened to be the injustice of Rodney King 's trial that triggered it this time . |
| 86 | She was going through a traumatic divorce at the time and it was obvious she needed someone to talk to and I just happened to be around . |
| 87 | Within Christianity bread and wine are sacramental not because they just happened to be on the table for a Jewish meal but because they were signs of the covenant . |
| 88 | He just happened to be there after solving another case . |
| 89 | Pilkington disliked the impression conveyed that these friendly personalities just happened to be recommending products as though they were disinterested parties . |
| 90 | It just happened to be the one which caused the glass to become overfilled and which caused the body to begin to signal being under excessive stress . |