Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 2 | I wanter to make sure I was properly covered , not only in case of damage to the car , but in case something were to happen to me too . ’ |
| 3 | What if something were to happen to Carmen ? |
| 4 | What if something were to happen to the company ? ’ |
| 5 | Something was happening to me . |
| 6 | Something was happening to the Worm . |
| 7 | But I think I resented them both for the same reason , that is , that something was happening to me , or rather to my body , which was completely outside of my own control . |
| 8 | Something was happening to her and something told him she needed help . |
| 9 | And something was happening to that door ; something that he could n't make out , because it was screened by their bodies . |
| 10 | Something was happening to the five , however . |
| 11 | Others will talk about themselves as ‘ he ’ or ‘ she ’ and describe what is taking place as though it were happening to a character in a television play . |
| 12 | So we share his horror as he observes in himself , experiences almost passively — as if it were happening to someone else — the emergence of the tempting desire to murder Duncan ( ‘ suggestion ’ still had the sense of diabolic temptation ) : There , with amazing speed , and as if parenthetically ( ‘ whose murder yet ’ ) we become privy to the secret that sets him apart from the others on stage , the goal to which all his energies will ultimately be directed . |
| 13 | Even while it was happening to me , I could n't believe it . |
| 14 | He still could n't entirely believe it , In the sense that he could not believe that it was happening to him , that he was so vulnerable to such a common , almost hackneyed feeling . |
| 15 | Friends were able to find an alternative , but for a few moments Marilyn said she could not believe it was happening to her and looked about for the dreaded Jeremy Beadle . |
| 16 | Any thought of what was to happen to his family home in Belfast had to be shelved until a joint decision could be reached with his brother when he next came home on leave . |
| 17 | Headhunters were also more likely to offer a dynamic rather than a static solution , Gozzard suggested : they would be looking for what was to happen to the company in the future , not just today , and the role of the successful candidate in effecting change . |
| 18 | I could n't afford anywhere to hide — what was happening to me ? |
| 19 | Without a knowledge of what was happening to Germanic diphthongs and vowels in the Dark Ages , however , even a clever pupil at Oxford in those days would have done badly . |
| 20 | No doubt there were many contributory external or psychological factors in what was happening to the way he perceived his own personality . |
| 21 | Shortly before he admitted what was happening to him , he re-read the Hippolytus of Euripides . |
| 22 | With this coherent team , in many ways bonded to the studio , Balcon set out to make films that mirrored what was happening to British society and fulfilled his aim of building up ‘ a native industry with its roots firmly planted in the soil of this country . ’ |
| 23 | The films give an increasingly wide berth to messy problems like sexuality and violence and , whereas Ealing 's films during and immediately after the war had interrogated what was happening to England , many or those made in the 1950s just do n't seem interested . |
| 24 | While the greening of the electorate was rapidly taken aboard and she was impressed by the fact that acid rain could damage international relations as surely as it did stonework and trees , what caught her imagination were the profound implications of what was happening to the chemistry of the deeper atmosphere . |
| 25 | Jane , the supreme example of self-control , did not know what was happening to her ! |
| 26 | This kind of teaching , it was argued , implicitly if not explicitly , was unacceptable because it would lead to an undermining of loyalty to the nation and government in minds too tender truly to comprehend the import of what was happening to them . |
| 27 | Now she would have to think , that was what was happening to her mind . |
| 28 | She remained conscious , but became increasingly disorientated , losing all awareness of where she was or what was happening to her . |
| 29 | He had special qualities of sensitivity , patience , rationality , intelligence , and wit ; and when those qualities were completely unobservable , I became quite concerned about what was happening to him , you know , what was the meaning of his life at this point . |
| 30 | True Londoners were sobered up by what was happening to their town , but young fellows , sometimes coming from as far as California , felt very lost and lonely , and sometimes escaped via the bottle . |