Example sentences of "this [be] [verb] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could this be happening to her ? |
| 2 | Oh sweet Jesus , how can this be happening to me ? |
| 3 | How could this be happening to him ? |
| 4 | Yeah , but I mean I think this is sticking to us |
| 5 | This is listen to it he 's just so funny ! |
| 6 | All this is denied to him because he has made the irreversible decision to join up and his life will never be the same again . |
| 7 | SSP1(L) Form ( this is issued to you by your current employer if you have received Statutory Sick Pay in the eight weeks prior to your leaving date ) . |
| 8 | Christine had been telling herself : ‘ This is n't something I 've read in the newspapers , this is happening to us ! |
| 9 | If this is happening to you , you can first check out why your From : address has changed with your systems people . |
| 10 | Regardless of the amount of time involved it seems likely that staff will always opt for more time if this is offered to them . |
| 11 | In one shape or size this was said to me often in writing this book , and always by women and girls themselves . |
| 12 | On the one occasion this was said to me , my reply was : ‘ OK , imagine I go out to dinner and do n't get back . |
| 13 | This was said to me a year after the announcement at the press conference when Fleischmann and Pons still did not know what caused the heat . |
| 14 | This was said to me , not by me , at a seminar on joint planning the other week and it was said over lunch by the director of another voluntary organisation which shall remain nameless . |
| 15 | She said , ‘ You see , before the war , this was given to me as a present , and it was full of chocolates . ’ |
| 16 | This was sent to them with an information leaflet . |
| 17 | Ace could n't believe this was happening to her . |
| 18 | She could n't believe this was happening to her . |
| 19 | He could n't believe this was happening to him — that he was going out with Kate and that the whole world could see it . |
| 20 | This was happening to him , and it made him afraid . |
| 21 | He could not believe this was happening to him . |
| 22 | She could not now pretend that none of this was known to her , that she was still simply a diligent and faithful daughter , loyal handmaid of a noble art . |
| 23 | Aye this was frozen to me , |
| 24 | Erm no , this was told to me , I presume this was discussed as some sort of |
| 25 | He applied for a grant of land and this was sold to him for a nominal sum . |
| 26 | This was sold to us , please , this was sold to us on the basis that it was going to bring in the baddies and sort out the baddies , and we 'd all live happily ever after . |
| 27 | This was sold to us , please , this was sold to us on the basis that it was going to bring in the baddies and sort out the baddies , and we 'd all live happily ever after . |
| 28 | Again this was reported to you at the last meeting of this Committee . |