Example sentences of "it [adv] happen to " in BNC.

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1 Usually , it only happens to grown-ups .
2 This house was indeed built for a gentleman — it just happens to be on an almost miniature scale .
3 I know that 's very boring of me , but it just happens to be true , my dear .
4 It just happens to be legal . ’
5 Unless , of course , it just happens to be a Japanese burglar .
6 ‘ I happen to believe variety is the spice of life , it just happens to be that women end up victimising themselves a lot , or subjecting themselves to a lot of bullshit to get some sort of coverage .
7 When you do this what you will see in the cell is either a 0 ( meaning False ) if what is actually in B10 is n't Bach or 1 ( meaning True ) if it just happens to be Bach .
8 it just happens to be the same amount at exactly the same time but how nice of him to explain and how silly of us to be taken in by this string of coincidences .
9 j it just happens to be one that I know about .
10 In this case it just happens to be true . ’
11 Mine is not an isolated instance , it just happens to be the most famous , because it 's the first time such persecution has been exported to a western country .
12 But that 's , but that 's what I mean , they 're making , they 're saying let's make , when the white people make films black and white people watch them , they 're not specifically made for white people , not specifically made for black people , it just happens to be white actors .
13 Anything could have sparked the riots , it just happened to be the injustice of Rodney King 's trial that triggered it this time .
14 It just happened to be the one which caused the glass to become overfilled and which caused the body to begin to signal being under excessive stress .
15 We made love , it just happened to be the first time for me .
16 But it just happened to be her best friend 's birthday and she was invited to a special birthday tea and to stay overnight . ’
17 And Robert , who was by now learning the basic rule that if anybody said anything interesting it was probably Muhammad , would ask if by any chance it just happened to be a saying of the Prophet , to which the headmaster would reply , his eyes shining , ‘ That 's it !
18 How could it possibly happen to him ?
19 ( Rapidly ) Has it ever happened to you that all of a sudden and for no reason at all you have n't the faintest idea how to spell the word — " wife " — or " house " — because when you write it down you just ca n't remember ever having seen those letters in that order before … ?
20 Should it ever happen to you all complaints to Mr. Kirby please .
21 It still happened to other people and all .
22 ‘ Does it still happen to you , John , that you look back at yourself as you were six months ago and you think what an ignorant , innocent goose you were !
23 It is big — but it also happens to be Japanese , and so presents a juicy target .
24 As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me .
25 It also happens to be a disastrous blow to Test cricket 's normally well-guarded sanctity as the supreme form of the game 's expression .
26 But it also happens to be true .
27 It also happens to be a favourite animal for ethological experiments .
28 JC : It also happens to be very difficult to sing .
29 But it also happens to be true .
30 It also happens to be how David , who is from Wallasey , started his career .
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