Example sentences of "though as it happen " in BNC.

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1 If he was really up to no good the situation might have turned awkward — though as it happens he was perfectly civil , and I was n't nervous . ’
2 Work-place acquaintance can safely be assumed to explain most of these weddings — though as it happens , two of the surviving women compositors , one who married a compositor from another printing office , and one whose husband worked at Bartholomew 's the map-printers , told me that they had met their future husbands at social gatherings unconnected with work .
3 The practice does take place in the Church of Ireland , though as it happened , it did not seem to have come Lewis 's way at St Mark 's , Dundela .
4 I did n't even know how to ride a bicycle , though as it happened I was soon forced to learn .
5 The typical industrial town was at this period still a medium-sized city , even by contemporary standards , though as it happened in central and eastern Europe some capital cities ( which tended to be very large ) also became major centres of manufacturing — e.g. Berlin , Vienna and St Petersburg .
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