Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh adv] [pron] happen to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They both love browsing in antique shops wherever they happen to be visiting , and appreciate good quality modern and reproduction designs . |
| 2 | He is , of course , the corporation 's watcher of science ( along with medicine , aerospace , and aviation , not to mention street sieges when he happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time ) for radio 's news department . |
| 3 | It was one evening when I happened to be valeting him , Mr Charles told me he had come across my father some years earlier while a guest at Loughborough House — the home of Mr John Silvers , the industrialist , where my father served for fifteen years at the height of his career . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The hallmarks of Thomas à Kempis 's approach to the religious life are a rigorous inner self-discipline and a conformity , for reasons of humility , to the existing forms of Christianity as met from day to day wherever you happen to be . |
| 6 | In South Island where I happened to be , validation is available only from the Canterbury Aero Club at Christchurch Airport . |
| 7 | On other days , he tended to have lunch either at the Reform or at the Oxford and Cambridge Club ; to judge by his correspondence , there were few occasions when he happened to be " free " and he was forced to arrange regular times in order to see close friends like Herbert Read . |