Example sentences of "[pers pn] happens to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would n't you agree that in normal day to day language if we see a line of cars going down a road and one of them happens to be a Rolls Royce we would say , that 's the quality car ? |
| 2 | ‘ She happens to be a visitor to wor house an' me ma sent us to escort her home . |
| 3 | When the organizer stops , the person stops in whatever position she happens to be in . |
| 4 | Elizabeth Bowen wrote : ‘ A writer of short stories is at his or her best sometimes , and sometimes not ; and this is equally true at any age or in any year at which he or she happens to be writing . |
| 5 | The former is of interest only in that she happens to be married to the gorgeous Richard Gere , who not only has ten times her talent but ten times her looks ( do people really find that hideous mole of hers attractive ? ) . |
| 6 | We are indebted to Beumont et al for having grasped the nettle in laying down the grade at which a girl or woman can expect to be respected as a climber and transcend the status defined by ‘ bimbo , ’ i.e. interesting only if she happens to be pretty . |
| 7 | What constitutes , for me , a virtuous woman … a decent woman … has nothing to do with how many sexual partners she may have had , or whether or not she happens to be single or married . |
| 8 | I returned to the spot where my home once stood , looked affectionately at Tony 's bright plastic ball in the knot of pampas , and left a plastic message pad beside it with a message for Mina , in case the area does a timeslip again and she happens to be there . |
| 9 | Apart from the fact that there 's an eleven-year gap in our ages and I do n't go in for cradle-snatching , she happens to be my stepsister . ’ |
| 10 | For one thing she happens to be another man 's wife these days . |
| 11 | New Zealand , too , fielded a side below full strength , though that is their privilege , and an uninspired 80 minutes signified little , beyond underlining the value of Kevin Iro to whichever team he happens to be playing in . |
| 12 | Well he happens to be an old flame of Mummy 's . |
| 13 | Usually he guesses what he happens to be thinking about himself , at the time . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ To howl down a man just because he happens to be out of form one day is often sufficient to discourage him for all time , ’ he told the Yorkshire Evening Post . |
| 15 | He happens to be a minister and found himself amid considerable grief telling his young family that their dog had gone for a walk with Jesus . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And if as heir presumptive , he happens to be an angel as well — why should his bride complain ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ However — and it is a BUT in capital letters — it 's as deplorable as it 's inevitable that because he happens to be a movie star his actions have drawn a torrent of destructive attention upon the entire industry with a free-for-all splurge in 57 varieties of scandal , malicious tongue-wagging and dirt . ’ |
| 19 | Iago 's superiority over the six people he directly deceives ( and behind them , of course , the whole of society ) is so marked that we risk endorsing his contempt for whichever ‘ snipe ’ , ‘ knave ’ , or ‘ ass ’ he happens to be manipulating . |
| 20 | All that 's stopping him being welcomed into the great freemasonry of the over-fifties is that he happens to be thirty-two . |
| 21 | The mother who ‘ ca n't be so cruel ’ as to wake her sleeping baby if he happens to be asleep at the appointed feeding-time , fails to realize that a few such wakings would be all she would have to resort to … |
| 22 | It is not something which your average reader is even particularly aware of ( unless he happens to be French ) . |
| 23 | He happens to be called " Shakespeare " , but this does not make " Shakespeare " equivalent with " the man called Shakespeare " , for he might not have been called " Shakespeare " at all . |
| 24 | At the editor 's workstation , which is n't a particular Mac but the one he happens to be logged onto , formatting codes are applied to the copy to generate the typeset material . |
| 25 | The argument for saying that there should be liability in such circumstances is that a constable does not cease to have certain general duties because he happens to be ‘ off duty ’ for the time being . |
| 26 | ‘ Come to think of it , he happens to be a very nice boy not so young , really . |
| 27 | They do n't have a problem at all it does n't seem to er be part of their daily lives er , that said I do have a farmer of my acquaintance , when I say my acquaintance he happens to be my son-in-law . |
| 28 | ‘ I imagine you employed him , ’ she rebuked him tightly , ‘ because he happens to be a first-class mechanic . ’ |
| 29 | erm , well I think it 's , do , erm I do n't know whether you understand what 's been asked doctor it cou it 's a question of costs , er normally where er matters erm are dealt with in chambers for in counsel appear then erm these counsel do n't get paid for the other side erm unless there is certificate for counsel as I understand it , were the , were the counsel appeared before the Judge erm they are entitled to their costs and this is er an appeal to the Judge , but er what I think Mr is saying is , in case he happens to be wrong in that he would like an order that er his fees should be proper fees of the defen of the plaintiffs on this appeal and er such as you could say seems to me that er , that is a , that would be proper |
| 30 | In this generation it happens to be me . |