Example sentences of "[conj] we happen to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | On the other hand we are fortunate indeed if we happen to be in a business that is so secure that it is enough for us to make effortless decisions that never require us to do more than flow along with established patterns . |
| 4 | And unless we happen to be absolute saints , I 'll bet most of us would admit that there have been occasions when we would willingly have ‘ divorced ’ our young ourselves … |
| 5 | So we were popular , and courted popularity , because we happened to be the sort of person society preferred , neotenic , forever in the larval stage . |
| 6 | ‘ We are not together because we happen to be two women , ’ says Sandra . |
| 7 | But we 've got to live by their rules and not expect privileges because we happen to be women . ’ |
| 8 | And I 'm trying to get it through your arrogant skull that I 'm not in the market for a casual roll in the hay just because we happen to be sharing a villa for a few days ! ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |