Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | President , I I happen to be going on Saturday to the National Final of the Rotary Young Inventor of the Years ' er convention this |
| 2 | This is despite the fact that there are such programmes as Mastermind , a sheepdog series ( with which I happen to be involved — I declare my interest ) and superb epics by the Natural History Unit . |
| 3 | So , the idea was that Finniston bought out this report which would then form another strata over the institutions and form the Engineering Council , of which I happen to be a member . |
| 4 | K ap is true because in the nearest worlds in which you are sitting reading you believe that you are sitting reading , and the nearest worlds in which you are not sitting reading are either worlds in which you are standing/kneeling/lying reading or worlds in which you are sitting knitting/watching TV , etc. , but not worlds in which you happen to be asleep dreaming that you are sitting reading . |
| 5 | He ran both hands up into the roots of her hair , which she happened to be wearing down , and tried to plant a kiss on her forehead . |
| 6 | It is clear that what is necessary in such a case is research , not dogmatic and perfectly arbitrary claims , based on analogies to that small part of the experimental literature in which one happens to be interested . |
| 7 | The pressure of this or that requirement or directive , together with the environment in which one happens to be , for example working under an agnostic headteacher , or a staunch Christian one , or with an enthusiastic multi-faith team , etc. , governs what happens . |
| 8 | And in so far as it , as the question arises erm of what kind of , of provisions erm are you going to find if you go abroad , erm then I think we can say that within the European Community , erm citizens of one member state are entitled to what the citizens of the member state in which they happen to be staying are entitled to . |
| 9 | I think that they are erm unfortunately erm affected by any event which happens in an area in which they happen to be . |
| 10 | Every day the newspapers are telling you what happens to other people 's children . |
| 11 | ‘ I asked you what happened to your Maestro , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ Did I tell you what happened to me last week . |
| 13 | ‘ I am trying to describe to you what happened to me , what I was . |
| 14 | Let me tell you what happened to me . |
| 15 | Here is what she wrote : Beware the feline of the sea ; lest might happen to you what happened to me ; When once I booked for a short break stay , I found it impossible to get away — Seacat did not turn up to-day . |
| 16 | The footnotes tell you what happened to people , rather than to nations or governments or monarchs . |
| 17 | I 'll tell you what happened to me seven months ago . |
| 18 | I can answer that by telling you what happened to me during the Tencel plant opening at Mobile in December . |
| 19 | It could have been ma I tell you what happened to me . |
| 20 | Furthermore , since learning is something which happens to the individual and not to the group , the value of the individual to the group should be stressed . |
| 21 | So a Gettier counter-example is one in which a has a justified but false belief by inference from which he justifiably believes something which happens to be true , and so arrives at a justified true belief which is not knowledge . |
| 22 | Only if it means ‘ Because it is presenting a larger appearance ’ is it to give an answer , one which happens to be wrong . |
| 23 | At the editor 's workstation , which is n't a particular Mac but the one he happens to be logged onto , formatting codes are applied to the copy to generate the typeset material . |
| 24 | Being too drunk to get yourself home safely , sleeping wherever there 's a bed — no matter whose it happens to be … ’ |
| 25 | It proved a disastrous union — ‘ Salo ’ , the inferior player , became brutally jealous of his wife 's game , and accused her of flirting with whomever she happened to be playing . |
| 26 | I find it surprising that Opposition Front-Bench spokesmen wish to exclude spouses because of whom they happen to be married to when they have good records of public service . |
| 27 | That he himself happened to be a congenital cad only made the whole thing more difficult , not easier . |
| 28 | Nor is it foul temper which vents itself indiscriminately on anyone who happens to be within range . |
| 29 | He never seemed to raise his voice , whereas Empson , who rapidly got tight , would end every other sentence with a ‘ whoop ’ , accompanied by a lunge endangering the wine glasses of anyone who happened to be near . |
| 30 | LOYALIST gunmen were ordered to kill anyone who happened to be in a particular house attacked in Belfast last week . |