Example sentences of "[indef pn] happening [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 2 | The sounds of what was going on in the box were being relayed out into the laboratory where Gedanken was , but nothing happening in the laboratory was getting through to the beetles in the box . |
| 3 | Better performance in 1993 must be everybody 's objective and despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth that surrounds us there has been plenty happening in our Division in 1992 to put us in good shape for the challenge of 1993 . |
| 4 | She did n't ask the question idly , but with the authority of one who expected to be kept informed of everything happening on the island . |
| 5 | Everything happening in East Germany is financed from private West German industries . |
| 6 | 11 , everything happening in the present case has been no more than one stage in a continuing contest between the prosecutor and the applicant in a matter which from the outset has been exclusively criminal in nature . |
| 7 | Something happening at your club . |
| 8 | Something happening to the horses ? ’ |
| 9 | I detect something happening to the profile of the flying binbag ; at the top of its arc the shape bulges in its upper surface , a small clenched fist bursts through , punching the dark . |
| 10 | I 've always had a rather ambivalent attitude towards something happening to my father , and it persists . |
| 11 | If not accounted for they could contaminate a specimen under study or be mistaken as an important signal of something happening within the experimental investigation , whereas they are actually part of the ‘ noise ’ — the ‘ background ’ . |
| 12 | But you can guarantee that there will be something happening in the bars , restaurants and clubs which are buzzing with energy . |
| 13 | You will find that there is always something happening in Battle which you will enjoy . |
| 14 | ‘ I want to see something happening in the game , something that helps the players and the spectators to enjoy it — but how can it happen when players are congested in seven-and-a-half yards either side of the halfway line ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It would make a nice change to have something happening in this place for once . |
| 16 | The President of the United States has to press one button , the man on the spot another : the radio frequencies are so wildly different that the chances of anyone happening on the right combination are billions to one . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ She knows how to defend herself with her nails and her teeth to stop anything happening to her children . |
| 18 | I suppose she 's afraid of anything happening to her friend as a result . |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't see Francis or anything happening to him if that 's what you 're getting at . |
| 20 | " I do n't want to think of anything happening to Great-Aunt Alicia to begin with — and I ca n't bear the thought of selling Moor-lake . " |
| 21 | Short of actually some sort of war breaking out or some an incident breaking out whilst we were on the ground , I suppose they might have actually apprehended us , but otherwise I think the chances of anything happening to the people , or Ted Heath , who were out there were very , very slim . |
| 22 | Do you remember anything happening during the war down the docks ? |