Example sentences of "it happen " in BNC.

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31 ‘ Bruno against Lennox means something in London but it means nothing in America and I just ca n't see it happening until October at the earliest .
32 It flooded his head , charged it with recklessness and brought — he could feel it happening — a warm flush to his face .
33 There was no ram-raiding until after the news showed it happening in America .
34 Norwich — and it 's good to see it happening . ’
35 ‘ We 've also earned respect from fellow professionals — just like Norwich — and it 's good to see it happening . ’
36 Lavender did n't quite believe that , but she was not prepared to risk it happening .
37 And then , very very slowly , so slowly she could hardly see it happening , the glass began to lean backwards , farther and farther and farther backwards until it was balancing on just one edge of its base .
38 If you understand what it happening , then you are likely to get the above sequence correct .
39 The Women 's Tennis Association have announced that fines for playing in an exhibition without approval in the same week as a major event have been sharply increased to a level which it is hoped will help to prevent it happening again .
40 ‘ There is a reasonable chance of it happening and there is a collective will to support it ’ , Cunningham believes .
41 Got local advantage to them but that never used to happen okay so why is it happening now ?
42 Such successes may be short-lived , but the possibility of it happening at all is a dimension to be considered by the major political parties .
43 She saw it happening all around her .
44 We 've also seen it happening , to an extent in properties in Bishopsfield as well erm I really think we need to get to grips with what we seem to be doing , which de-counting people prematurely early er , in response to , to housing developments which we are planning to undertake in in partnership with other people and leaving ourselves open to this and not
45 And you 're also summoned that on that same occasion you not having given your name and address to any person requiring it at the time , you failed to report the accident at a police station , or to a constable as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case within twenty four hours of it happening again , that 's an offence under section twenty five of the road traffic act to that effect do you plead guilty or not guilty ?
46 I remember it happening , but I ca n't remember somebody came to open it , did somebody come to open The Stow you know
47 That 's a very good question , there 's a number of reasons for it happening , erm it might be that the groove , the , the socket bit is very shallow , like a shallow tea cup and the hip , the leg bone does n't stay in it properly , does that make sense to you ?
48 To Constanza it was an end , an end then and there — the sole fact that it happened , that people consented to it happening , men sent out , actually going out to hurt and kill , systematically destroy one another 's homes and lives and loved ones , the folly of it , the beastliness , the pain ; the strange mad illusion that any of this , under any aspect , any theology , any ideal , could be right — the staggering , inconceivable , immediate , ultimate , concrete wrongness of it all .
49 I , I used to drive Sheena , but I can safely say that I live on the A seventy seven , aggression is equally as bad as drinking driving , because you see it happening on that road every day , aggression they cut out they cut in , you do n't know where their coming from , er at least a drunken driver tries to go straight and make 's the mistake
50 Everyone from Sir Freddie Laker to the CAA warned him it was likely , and Branson had taken what measures he could to prevent it happening .
51 I ca n't see it happening .
52 ‘ How is it happening , then ? ’
53 He declined to speculate on dates , except to say that he saw no sign of it happening next year ( 1992 ) ; there was too much backlog to be mopped up .
54 The only way to stop it happening , and therefore to stop the fear of it , is to develop self-esteem .
55 There was only a million-to-one chance of it happening .
56 We see it happening in a crucial passage in the Acts , the conversion of Cornelius .
57 He 'd secured her with practised ease , and so fast that she had n't even been aware of it happening .
58 Sometimes they see things — people embracing , people dancing , people undressing — and they 're terrified of it happening to me .
59 Ca n't see it happening , but it would be better .
60 There is no sign at all of this or anything like it happening .
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