Example sentences of "it be happening to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It 's happening to me . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's happening to both of us ! ’ he bit out . |
| 5 | But as we 're seeing it 's happening to all sorts of people . |
| 6 | ‘ I just wonder if it 's happening to every house in the street . |
| 7 | It 's happening to more and more people and right across the social spectrum . |
| 8 | The egoist , like the puritan , must inhibit his immediate response in obedience to a principle : ‘ It is happening to him and not to me , I have no reason to care . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ There is a lot of denial and it is very difficult to talk about the abuse when it is happening to you , especially if you are a researcher as you do n't have much contact with the person on a regular basis , ’ Ogg says . |
| 10 | Even while it was happening to me , I could n't believe it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |