Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we entered a genteel teashoppe/cafe which happened to be handy and ordered coffee , as so often before . |
| 2 | A priest who happened to be visiting my mother volunteered to stay on one of these occasions , but the screams drove him out . |
| 3 | This can present a problem id you happen to be the unhappy owner of a particularly noisy air pump . |
| 4 | And that 's a lot of dead people … and innocent people , whichever side they happen to be on . ’ |
| 5 | In an aunt 's loft he happened to chance across what he regards as his first hoard : a collection of dust-covered National Geographic magazines . |
| 6 | If you come out of a swimming pool and stand at the side what happens to you ? |
| 7 | It 's just a graph of a function which happens to be a straight line . |
| 8 | Before being taken to the platform , he was introduced to those members of the Committee who happened to be milling around the entrance . |
| 9 | From time to time , almost absent-mindedly , he reached into his pocket and produced a sweet , which he gave to any small boy who happened to be near . |
| 10 | ‘ It was a pity it happened to her , the prettiest in the village . |
| 11 | I said well I 'm trying to I said this bloke what happens to be my oldest brother I said , and he wo n't even tow it for me ! |
| 12 | If you are unlucky enough to find yourself living with someone who seems to you to be an ‘ impossible ’ mother-in-law , it does no harm first to take a good look at yourself and your handling of her , just in case you happen to be one of the original ‘ impossible ’ daughters-in-law ! |
| 13 | She spent more and more time off her eggs , parading about the yard , cackling as if demented and taking sudden rushes in whatever direction she happened to be facing when each fit of frenzy overcame her . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But strained through they may be , the last place you expect to see a dust-up between the two protagonists is in Portugal — unless of course you happen to be a historian with a penchant for the Peninsular Wars . |
| 16 | It 's work I have some familiarity with because by accident I happened to be the external examiner of the lad who did it , Peter Williamson . |
| 17 | As I understand it the Cleveland structure plan proposes the same number of dwellings for erm its next period which happens to be fourteen years , as it did for the last fourteen of the of the previous structure plan , fifteen thousand seven hundred . |
| 18 | Would a Melanesian who happened to be one 's cousin five times removed be a relation or a foreigner ? |
| 19 | ‘ Well , he does n't sound like anyone I know , ’ I said , ‘ unless he 's a caddie who happened to be passing nearby and wanted to quiz me about any work available . ’ |
| 20 | Does one appoint a poor teacher who is a mathematics specialist to a staff rather than an excellent teacher who happens to be a historian but who enjoys teaching mathematics ? |
| 21 | Malcolm Rifkind , the Defence Secretary , intervened to say the army believed it would be ‘ grossly invidious for the choice of soldiers for redundancy to depend on whether at any given moment they happened to be serving in Northern Ireland , Bosnia , the UK or elsewhere ’ . |
| 22 | And whichever sort they happen to be , they always think they 're the first of their kind . |
| 23 | New Zealand , too , fielded a side below full strength , though that is their privilege , and an uninspired 80 minutes signified little , beyond underlining the value of Kevin Iro to whichever team he happens to be playing in . |
| 24 | Well I wo n't say Beven because it 's a bloody shame what happened to him ! |
| 25 | For the moment what happened to Mr Davison after the fdight remains a mystery . |
| 26 | Look , Fred , there 's something I think you should know , just in case — well , in case something happens to me . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I have to decide whether to get a goalkeeper on loan for the rest of the season in case something happens to Pears . |
| 28 | He still has a 30-years-old Courtelle suit which he kept as a standby for the MBE investiture just in case something happened to his morning dress . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The one major event which happened to me at Binbrook , and which was going to change my life , was that I met the man I was eventually to marry , although a lot of water would flow under the bridge before the wedding took place . |