Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adv] happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they also happen to be living alone , we can make all the difference to the monotony of their existence by arranging to take them out regularly . |
| 2 | It 's the kind of thing you do n't think of until it actually happens to you . |
| 3 | When you do this what you will see in the cell is either a 0 ( meaning False ) if what is actually in B10 is n't Bach or 1 ( meaning True ) if it just happens to be Bach . |
| 4 | But that 's easier said than done , and you will be lucky indeed if it never happens to you . |
| 5 | ‘ as if he only happens to be with us by accident and could just as easily be amusing himself at some other job elsewhere . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If anything else happens to me , ’ he murmured , wetting his lips , ‘ look round my house . |
| 7 | She made me promise to destroy them , ‘ if anything ever happens to me ’ , she said . |
| 8 | Within Christianity bread and wine are sacramental not because they just happened to be on the table for a Jewish meal but because they were signs of the covenant . |
| 9 | And also , the use of the yellow background , I do n't know , erm whether it was deliberately chosen or whether she just happened to be standing there , but the yellow background makes it stand out . |
| 10 | Now , she was n't sure whether she truly loved the Navaho , or whether he simply happened to be the only human being she had contact with . |
| 11 | As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me . |
| 12 | As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages , let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach , who have passed several days in the company of each other : and who , notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road , generally make up at last , and mount for the last time into their vehicle with cheerfulness and good humour ; since after this one stage , it may possibly happen to us , as it commonly happens to them , never to meet more . |