Example sentences of "it so [verb] that [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The reader should not reject them outright if it so happens that they do not correspond to his own personal impressions .
2 But it so happens that we can compare the situation during the years 1070 to 1123 with a similar train of events at Canterbury just a hundred years later .
3 Now it so happens that we can make the same substitution of forms in an otherwise completely different sentence , producing an exactly parallel change of meaning :
4 It so happens that I have an appointment with the PM this evening .
5 Well it so happens that I did intend you to do a paramount of talking this afternoon , so it 's quite convenient in a way that we are being recorded .
6 Now it so happens that I am in some small way , relatively well qualified to stand here in Lynda 's place .
7 ‘ Look , Mr Burns , it so happens that I was blessed with a pretty good voice .
8 It so happens that I can remember the firsts serious poem that I wrote and published , which was actually when I was in my mid-twenties .
9 General Francis said it so happened that he owned the fishing rights on a fairly respectable stretch of water .
10 It so happened that it turned out a good thing that it did n't get posted , but that was just a lucky chance .
11 It so happened that it fell to the lot of Geoffrey Holton and Chris Protheroe to do the donkey work in the Lusaka accident , but it could have been any of the twenty or so investigators in AIB .
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