Example sentences of "the [noun] [pers pn] happen to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , pushing him aside , she gathered her cloak around her , made so bravely from those two old plush tablecloths , and began to walk downhill — the direction she happened to be facing — until she came to St Jude 's churchyard where she sat on a gravestone , her head in her hands , and shivered . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Er , when you 've finished with it , all I want is the token off the corner of the page it happens to be on the reverse side |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You do n't honestly believe he 's got anything to do with the way I happen to be feeling , do you ? ’ |
| 6 | Calls will be linked automatically to the first available Samaritan volunteer , whatever part of the country they happen to be in . |