Example sentences of "[pron] be happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 2 | I wanter to make sure I was properly covered , not only in case of damage to the car , but in case something were to happen to me too . ’ |
| 3 | What if something were to happen to Carmen ? |
| 4 | What if something were to happen to the company ? ’ |
| 5 | Something was happening to me . |
| 6 | Something was happening to the Worm . |
| 7 | But I think I resented them both for the same reason , that is , that something was happening to me , or rather to my body , which was completely outside of my own control . |
| 8 | Something was happening to her and something told him she needed help . |
| 9 | And something was happening to that door ; something that he could n't make out , because it was screened by their bodies . |
| 10 | Something was happening to the five , however . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It 's happening to me . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's happening to both of us ! ’ he bit out . |
| 15 | But as we 're seeing it 's happening to all sorts of people . |
| 16 | ‘ I just wonder if it 's happening to every house in the street . |
| 17 | It 's happening to more and more people and right across the social spectrum . |
| 18 | They 've er they 've done fairly well there with Perhaps if it 's happen to be a time when I 'm busy Richard you might do it as vice chairman . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | Even while it was happening to me , I could n't believe it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ What 's to happen to him ? ’ |
| 25 | I think this man will decide what 's to happen to us tomorrow . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ What 's to happen to your possessions then ? ’ |
| 27 | I do n't know what 's happening to this place . ’ |
| 28 | The only answer was to run — in the hope that I can escape being apprehended while I find out what 's happening to the project I was working on . |
| 29 | Those that are n't winners do n't want to know what 's happening to anybody else . |
| 30 | ‘ What 's happening to surfing is happening to everything , ’ Terry said , ‘ that 's progress for you . ’ |