Example sentences of "we happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sergeant had arranged signals with us if we happened to see anything to our front , by moving our feet and so prevent talking . |
| 2 | We happened to meet up that very night , at The Marquee where we 'd all gone to see Thin Lizzy . |
| 3 | ‘ We happened to be at the mortuary … not that it will make any difference , but there is one thing we thought you would find interesting . ’ |
| 4 | If we were all hay fever prone , then whenever we happened to be in a place where the pollen count was high , our eyes would start streaming and our noses running . |
| 5 | we happened to go up the stair and er , the door was answered |
| 6 | Even if by chance we happened to conceive of just these members of the series , it is surely not in virtue of that fact that they count as correct continuations . |
| 7 | I could n't see many people ; most of the lights had been turned off , and we happened to be sitting in the patch of light thrown by one small lamp . |
| 8 | Because if we happened , just happened to discover , or even suspect , that our spontaneity was part of their order , we 'd know that we were lost . |
| 9 | We happened on some good 'uns , and we happened on some sort of funny ones when we goo round . |
| 10 | We happened on some good 'uns , and we happened on some sort of funny ones when we goo round . |
| 11 | Then one of the travelling craftsmen came out from the town and lined the cart , trap or wagon we happened to be making : that means he painted the finishing touches , the lines on the wheels and the panels . |
| 12 | We happened to be talking about the diary habit which , nowadays , seems to be largely confined to politicians . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We happened to be in the same place at the same time a couple of months ago , ’ she replied , terse and offhand . |
| 14 | For what it 's worth , I merely took the opportunity to discuss a radio-related matter with him when we happened to meet because I 've kept missing him at work these last couple of days . |
| 15 | We happened to pass a woman pushing a pram , who for some reason produced a torch , no doubt in order to locate something , and directed it straight at the baby 's face . |
| 16 | So we were popular , and courted popularity , because we happened to be the sort of person society preferred , neotenic , forever in the larval stage . |
| 17 | It was a massive vehicle with a 3.3 litre diesel engine , and it was marvellous because we could park for the night where we happened to be . |
| 18 | It does n't take too much imagination to guess that this means ‘ draw a circle centred at x = 10.5 , y = 24.75 , and of radius 3.9 , in whatever units we happen to be using at the moment ’ . |
| 19 | gives me some very strange looks when we happen to meet . |
| 20 | We happen to know a particularly nice little establishment in Soho , only a five-minute walk away . |
| 21 | We happen to know from the historian Livy that a city called Morgantina was settled by the Romans with a group of Spaniards who were fighting on their side in Sicily , after they had captured it from the Carthaginians in 211BC , and the coins thereby enabled the site to be identified as that of Morgantina . |
| 22 | Well , we do see a good deal of what is around us and not simply whatever it is that we happen to be staring at . |
| 23 | ‘ We are not together because we happen to be two women , ’ says Sandra . |
| 24 | But we 've got to live by their rules and not expect privileges because we happen to be women . ’ |
| 25 | ( We happen to live near a river bank . ) |
| 26 | We happen to lie in the line of sight so far as Algol is concerned ( or nearly so ) ; if we were observing from a different vantage point there would be no eclipses , and Algol would shine steadily . |
| 27 | We happen to have this year ( she is leaving ) a lady who is a qualified teacher and a qualified librarian . |
| 28 | Thus the name " Shakespeare " rigidly refers to Shakespeare , irrespective of whether we happen to be talking about what Shakespeare did or wrote , or did not do or write but might have done or written , i.e. about his actual or merely possible attributes . |
| 29 | We happen to live on one particular history that has certain properties and details . |
| 30 | What this means to you or me is that if we happen to fancy a cup of the most expensive tea in the world , we would have to hurry off to Knightsbridge this month and shell out £35 for a quarter of a pound of Indian brew named Castleton . |