Example sentences of "[be] [adv] happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Things like this are always happening to me , " she said , and shrugged put her elbows on the sill of the window and smiled down at him . |
| 2 | Instances of police racial harassment which had always happened to other people , were now happening to us . |
| 3 | A plant you do n't water , it droops but it does not die/your collection of erotic images is considerable but it 's always happening to someone else . |
| 4 | Finally , the strategies for change can be found in an analysis of what has gone before and a cultural intervention in what is socially happening to disabled people . |
| 5 | This is often exactly what the panic attack victim thinks and does when they have no idea what is really happening to them . |
| 6 | It was all happening to him , right there in a see-through plastic telephone nodule in the airport concourse with the crowds jostling and plaintive announcements coming over the Tannoy system , and the orange-juice machines gurgling and travellers humping suitcases about with those peculiarly tense expressions people always adopt prior to a long-haul flight . |
| 7 | It really did n't feel like it was such big stuff , it was just happening to me and I believed I was going to be all right . |
| 8 | It was just happened to be spotted by Richard , fortunately , whilst he was erm , between jobs and actually being up a steps , walked in a saw the smoke coming out of one of the er , main switch areas . |
| 9 | And er we were on that for about an hour or so and then they got rid of the the badly injured were taken off then and put on the Therris it 's support vessel that was Just happened to be there at the time . |
| 10 | Furthermore , what was happening to us was also happening to others , notably the Germans , and could of course happen to anyone . |
| 11 | After we finished that poem , late in the evening of 2 November , we went walking through the streets of Salamanca for most of the night , for the poem had persuaded us that something remarkable was really happening to us , that some kind of poetic grace had been bestowed upon us . |
| 12 | They could n't believe it was all real — that the nightmare was actually happening to them . |
| 13 | She still could n't quite believe that all this was actually happening to her . |
| 14 | And hammered on the door so one of the teache and it was the class where I was too happened to be by the door there . |