Example sentences of "but as it happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as it happens , I have something to convey to you . ’ |
| 2 | But as it happens , I do have something to say . |
| 3 | They were lies , but as it happens I had met him before . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ It suggests nothing of the sort but as it happens you are partly right . |
| 6 | I wondered how I should broach this subject but as it happened , Dame Edna opened her heart . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They had to pass the restaurant in order to reach the right road ; but as it happened nobody even looked at them . |