Example sentences of "happen to be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually he guesses what he happens to be thinking about himself , at the time . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sure Adam will have no difficulty in doing exactly as he pleases , which at the moment happens to be attending to his guests . ’ |
| 3 | Look , I happen to be calling at the office this afternoon . |
| 4 | ‘ We happen to be staying in the same place , and I 'm damned if I 'm keeping awake waiting for you to turn up . |
| 5 | It does n't take too much imagination to guess that this means ‘ draw a circle centred at x = 10.5 , y = 24.75 , and of radius 3.9 , in whatever units we happen to be using at the moment ’ . |
| 6 | Young children may lay claim to possession just because they happen to be playing with , say , a car or doll . |
| 7 | The important thing is that we go onstage feeling like a unit , rather than a bunch of individuals who happen to be playing in the same key . ’ |
| 8 | If you'se happen to be comin' here to Dublin at some time or other in the future — which praise the Lord you will be , for t is God 's own city — and you happen to be driving down O'Connell Street and you see me standin' here like dis , with me arms up ; then whether I 'm here or not , you stop . ’ |
| 9 | I happen to be embarking on a motoring trip during the course of which I hope to see many splendid views . |
| 10 | It depends what speakers happen to be talking about . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is obvious enough if you happen to be going through a particularly traumatic time , but what about when you are doing all those ordinary things like reading , writing , driving or pursuing any so-called ‘ relaxing ’ activity ? |
| 13 | It is obviously more difficult to set aside time for meal planning if you happen to be going through a heavy time at work . |
| 14 | President , I I happen to be going on Saturday to the National Final of the Rotary Young Inventor of the Years ' er convention this |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Erm , there 's the , the time zone map and phone map of the United States , there 's the international time zone map , there are key telephone numbers if you 're , happen to be travelling in America . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , these woods have seen far worse than Medoc and the Twelve Lords , ’ said Lugh airily , who happened to be listening to this . |
| 18 | And then they 'd throw you to whatever man happened to be passing for the money you 'd earn for them . ’ |
| 19 | BBS seriously considered firing Hopper ; the pressure of moving a production team of twenty-three people from state to state , writing the script on the run and persuading innocent citizens of the United States of America who just happened to be passing at the time to appear in the movie , was a heavy burden for all . |
| 20 | Station Officer Russ Broadbent of Southport Fire station , said : ‘ It was very lucky that Mrs Parry happened to be passing at the time . |
| 21 | A NETWORK hack and photographer happened to be passing by when they spotted a well-known accountant checking the INROADS mat . |
| 22 | Sir Neill Cooper-Key , Lord Rothermere 's son-in-law , procured the safe Conservative seat of Hastings because , as a young army officer in 1945 he happened to be drinking in the bar of the Berkeley Hotel . |
| 23 | As before in the cellar , all eyes turned to McNab who , once again , happened to be leaning against a wall at the back . |
| 24 | Malcolm Rifkind , the Defence Secretary , intervened to say the army believed it would be ‘ grossly invidious for the choice of soldiers for redundancy to depend on whether at any given moment they happened to be serving in Northern Ireland , Bosnia , the UK or elsewhere ’ . |
| 25 | It was alleged that at first the railway company denied that they had been travelling on the train at all , and it was indeed suggested that the two children were chance victims of the holocaust and they happened to be wandering by the railway at the time . |
| 26 | I was confusing those regulations with some others , because I happened to be dealing with the lack of adequate time for the disability working regulations . |
| 27 | There was once a little tailor , a good and unremarkable man , who happened to be journeying through a forest , in search of work perhaps , for in those days men travelled great distances to make a meagre living , and the services of a fine craftsman , like our hero , were less in demand than cheap and cobbling hasty work that fitted ill and lasted only briefly . |
| 28 | Arrested with Mrs Dyer was her son-in-law , a Mr Arthur Palmer , who happened to be living with her at the time . |
| 29 | I happened to be looking for somewhere to mount a small African sculpture I had bought and came upon De Biasi in Tottenham Mews just off Tottenham Court Toad . |
| 30 | Everyone thought there 'd be a roar of ribald laughter at that line if Puck happened to be hopping around the stage in plaster at the time . ’ |