Example sentences of "[coord] as it happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | " And as it happens opium . |
| 2 | And as it happens , I did n't walk . |
| 3 | It is for instance a continuous and powerfully effective factor in the change of lexical meaning ; and as it happens , we have touched on a syntactic case in this very chapter , in the development of fixed relative order for classes of adjectives in prenominal position ( cf. , too , the emergence of " characteristic " and " occasion " values for prenominals and postnominals , respectively ) . |
| 4 | I remembered what you 'd said about settling down , and as it happened I met a very nice young man from Berlin , a train driver . |
| 5 | And he said to me , he 'd marked my , my sum and , and as it happened they was right , all of them . |
| 6 | I was seven and I was I went to a neighbour 's house and as it happened I was looking through the blooming window when the funeral went past so I was no better off you know . |
| 7 | And as it happened , we were likely to be able to go . |
| 8 | But as it happens , I have something to convey to you . ’ |
| 9 | But as it happens , I do have something to say . |
| 10 | They were lies , but as it happens I had met him before . |
| 11 | South America could easily have had a marsupial anteater , alongside its marsupial sabre-tooth " tiger " , but as it happens the anteater trade was early filled by placental mammals instead . |
| 12 | ‘ It suggests nothing of the sort but as it happens you are partly right . |
| 13 | I wondered how I should broach this subject but as it happened , Dame Edna opened her heart . |
| 14 | One did not have to attend school meals with the boys over the week-end if one was off duty ; and the only master who might have noticed I had been away was Méli himself , but as it happened he 'd been in Athens . |
| 15 | One of the factors that led me to sign up with the DIA was the idea that I might be able to do something for my friend Jerry Levin , who had been taken hostage in Beirut by Hezbollah , but as it happened he was released before I got out there . |
| 16 | They had to pass the restaurant in order to reach the right road ; but as it happened nobody even looked at them . |