Example sentences of "be happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not just in harsh action ; increased concern about children is almost always part of a larger concern about people in general , but when horrible things are happening to people it is not unusual to focus on children and try special pleading on their behalf . |
| 2 | Even if horrific or frightening , it 's at least more exciting , less routine and ultimately the bad things — being skewered by a maniac or blown to pieces or vampirized — are happening to someone else . |
| 3 | ‘ I feel almost guilty that so many good things are happening to us , when such a lot of people are having a bad time , ’ Sarah said . |
| 4 | Undoubtedly adolescence is the one which raises numerous transient problems in terms of puberty particularly , in terms of physical change , where adolescents become very worried about their , their body image , about the changes that are happening to them physically . |
| 5 | reactive kind of person , in which he things are happening to him , like for instance he 's quite famous because of the war . |
| 6 | Something very interesting and very clever had been happening to the Direct Line Insurance tournament at Beckenham lately . |
| 7 | As a producer , MacCabe is naturally enough dismayed by this pro-directorial bias : ‘ If you look at what 's been happening to British cinema over the last 10 years or so , then it 's clear that it has tended to be production-led — names like Working Title , Palace Films or Zenith are as important as those of any individual director . |
| 8 | At one point he inserts the comment , ‘ you will want cause and effect ’ , as a prelude to a ludicrously far-fetched explanation of what has been happening to a character in one of the text 's interstices ( Pynchon 1975a : 663 ) . |
| 9 | I had kept all the abuse that had been happening to me very much to myself — it seemed to me that I must have been very bad . |
| 10 | The big question was : Who is this girl — and what has been happening to her ? |
| 11 | The big question was : Who is this girl — and what has been happening to her ? |
| 12 | What 's been happening to you ? |
| 13 | This has indeed been happening to the USA , and much of the capital funds moving to the USA have come from Japan . |
| 14 | I 'm gon na start by going back to that graph we looked at first thing this morning which is trying to explain what had been happening to the pattern of tourism , both visitors to this country and visitors moving away from this country in the period nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty two . |
| 15 | Section 2.2 explores different definitions of deindustrialization , looking at each of them in the context of data on what has actually been happening to manufacturing in this country over recent decades . |
| 16 | A lot of personal things had been happening to me during that year . |
| 17 | When I go past , I wonder what has been happening to her in the intervening years , and that 's very odd . ’ |
| 18 | Now , while this had been happening to the fisherman , his poor dumb wife was left alone in the lonely hut . |
| 19 | It 's er just what 's been happening to a lot of folk , sinus trouble . |
| 20 | None of what 's been happening to her lately has sat well with her temperament . |
| 21 | The fact that my innocent inquiry had provoked such a defensive , almost hostile response got me thinking about what has been happening to the labour force since the mid-1970s . |
| 22 | He used some statistics about what has been happening to jobs and businesses recently . |
| 23 | Third To make the public aware of what has been happening to the badger . |
| 24 | ‘ So he 's the one behind everything that 's been happening to you recently . ’ |
| 25 | You 've no idea what 's been happening to us ! ’ she said , before suddenly bursting into a storm of tears . |
| 26 | He remained silent , watching her , and her embarrassment grew until in the end she set her glass down with a bang and in desperation said , ‘ So are you going to tell me what 's been happening to you in the last five years ? ’ |
| 27 | I 'd like to know who cut the strings of her tennis racket too , the first formers looked at one another , it certainly is queer the way things have been happening to poor Mary Lou lately , even her prayer book had disappeared and some of her pencils had gone . |
| 28 | This has been happening to me , just the same . |
| 29 | There was ‘ the moment of truth ’ and ‘ it ca n't be happening to me … ’ feeling . |
| 30 | This ca n't be happening to me , Kate would never get herself into this sort of situation . |