Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly it happens to er underline the fact that the United Kingdom economy is in much better shape when compared to the economies of our principal European competitors . |
| 2 | Now I happen to be an extravert , so if I compensate by smoking this will keep me a perfectly balanced and healthy human being . |
| 3 | Exactly the same thing had happened in pop music and now it happened to art — hype , control , block-buying . |
| 4 | Yeah I se well I happened to be coming home from school cos I thought there was a the hearse coming and then I watched two mourning cars two flashy great big things ! |
| 5 | I know because many years ago I happened to be in the right place , in the ambulance I was driving at the right time and was able to e effect a rescue of an old woman from her smoke filled house at Burstill Ten minutes later I could not have done it because of the smoke . |
| 6 | Today she happened to be wearing the dress of violet-coloured wool which was the last thing Miss Statham had made for her — drifts of its full skirt could be seen at the front of her grey squirrel coat . |
| 7 | she said well it happened to me , it 's the chemicals on the skin of the fruit and the tomatoes , that 's what brought your spots on and after a couple of days or whatever they went away . |
| 8 | Well he happens to be an old flame of Mummy 's . |
| 9 | Initially I happened to be watching a monitor at the BBC on which was an item about a group of French musicians who played their music on glass tubes . |
| 10 | Then it happens to another dancer and , as I am watching the same pattern of recovery , the man next to me throws his arms into the air , totters forward and begins to experience apparently involuntary spasms . |
| 11 | The fact that students ask a question about something fairly commonplace and then it happens to me must be pure co-incidence . |
| 12 | There are opportunities for development in the Swindon front garden , in the Chippenham front garden , the Devizes front garden , wherever , and it is my belief that since this county council originally purchased those farms , and have since maintained them , that if there is going to be a development windfall , then that should accrue to this county council and not to Thamesdown or whoever else it happens to be . |
| 13 | Her heart was beating wildly as it had for days whenever the telephone bell rang anywhere she happened to be . |