Example sentences of "we [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fil continues : ‘ We just happen to be in this bit … ( much laughter ) … of no money and knowing what it 's like to have no prospects . |
| 2 | I was received as a thief , a well-mannered rapist , bucketless car-washer , double-glazing runner , not to mention corrupt informant that some of them tiles is loose , Ma 'm , and we just happen to be in the area with a long ladder so why not call it eighty quid ? |
| 3 | But we just happen to live in a history in which the Allies won the war and Madonna was on the cover of Cosmopolitan . |
| 4 | We just happen to be more lucky at laying hands on them than most . |
| 5 | They will doubtless say we are lucky , but we just happen to be house-owners with a steady income , like millions of others . |
| 6 | On our first night in France , exhausted after a ferry crossing , we just happened to fetch up in this little village on the Loire , in a hotel on the second floor of a hotel where , indeed , we opened the shutters — and we were looking at the west end of the Romanesque Abbey of St Benoit sur Loire , which is a most striking church where the remains of the saint are interred in a little casket in the crypt . |
| 7 | We were able to help him … we can see their house from our bedroom and we just happened to be looking out of the window at the time , do n't you know . ’ |
| 8 | I said I did n't know the other guys , we just happened to be in the same pub . |
| 9 | We just happened to be in the pool at the same time , that 's all . ’ |
| 10 | This friend of ours who lost his wife last year , well we 've got another friend who was very fond of her she also smokes we just happened to me we did n't say |
| 11 | say to th this chap you know but we just happened to mention in passing to Jeanette and she really jumped and said oh Pat did n't smoke a lot . |
| 12 | And we just happened to see it as were was coming back from Thurmaston we popped in and sa granddad got a |
| 13 | oh we just happened to be down town |
| 14 | It may be said that a sensation of heat in the hand is not really an impression as of our hand being hot , but is simply something that we normally happen to get when our hand heats up . |