Example sentences of "i happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And may I ask if she will be so delighted to see me because I happen to be a male member of the human race … ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I do wish everyone would stop writing me off just because I happen to be fifty . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I happen to be the only person here who believes we have to make a response at the European level , ’ Mr Radice said . |
| 4 | I happen to know that there are many Toms in the Christian Church . |
| 5 | Now , I happen to think that Campbell 's idea is flawed because he wants to have his cake and eat it . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's a mug 's game and I happen to be very good at it . |
| 7 | People think if you 're small , you 're there to be downtrodden , and they have a stack of prejudices about all the other things that I happen to be . |
| 8 | This is despite the fact that there are such programmes as Mastermind , a sheepdog series ( with which I happen to be involved — I declare my interest ) and superb epics by the Natural History Unit . |
| 9 | I happen to believe they were right . |
| 10 | I happen to be embarking on a motoring trip during the course of which I hope to see many splendid views . |
| 11 | I happen to be the young man 's godfather . |
| 12 | At this point , someone might rightly argue : ‘ I happen to live on earth , and it is here that I want to have a happy marriage ! ’ |
| 13 | I happen to have half a dozen , and there is one , just one , that I am allowing you the privilege of riding , because I think you are capable of coping with it . |
| 14 | I happen to believe that many of them are very well documented , even proved . |
| 15 | TAM DALYELL 's article ‘ When giants roamed ’ ( New Scientist , 3 February , p 323 ) was strangely evocative to me as I happen to have met ( however tangentially ) all the giants he mentions , as possible participants in the white-hot technological revolution that petered-out in 1963–66 , as well as Robert Maxwell and Solly Zuckerman who featured only in an illustration to that article . |
| 16 | I happen to know that the Director of Social Work , and another of the senior social workers here , have moved here very recently . |
| 17 | All my pleasures will be solitary , even when I happen to be in company ; I shall not be exhilarated simply because the people around me are enjoying themselves , nor depressed because they are in low spirits . |
| 18 | If I happen to be pondering them when about to cross the street , and the green light has changed to yellow , ‘ Be aware ’ resumes all its authority ; never mind that at another level of discourse physics dismisses colour as subjective , unreal . |
| 19 | Just because I happen to like my shellsuit trousers , people come to all sorts of unflattering conclusions about me , generally involving Essex . |
| 20 | I happen to get on with most of them and , even if there 's things we do n't necessarily love about each other , we just let it be . ’ |
| 21 | I happen to think that behind much of that flamboyance in his earlier years there was a fund of timidity and reticence . |
| 22 | Asked if sex was his lifeline , he said : ‘ That 's what Madonna says , and I happen to agree with her . ’ |
| 23 | As my aunt would say , I happen to be a sensible lass . |
| 24 | ‘ Fortunately I happen to like licorice , ’ said Richard . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ I happen to be chairman of the medical panel . ’ |
| 27 | I happen to be married but things would be tough on a single income ’ . |
| 28 | By this , he did not mean that truth is simply subjective , merely my own opinion , what I happen to like to regard as true . |
| 29 | I am not advocating such a theory of parsing English into formal representations — I happen not to believe strongly in such ‘ top — down ’ theories , though there are several relatively successful ones in the literature . |
| 30 | ‘ Just because I happen to be President of this company I do n't play the Great White Chief , ’ he was fond of saying . |