Example sentences of "[pron] happening " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't get the same satisfaction just publishing ideas — I like to see them happening . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't get the same satisfaction just publishing ideas — I like to see them happening . ’ |
| 3 | He does n't wait for things to happen , he actually makes them happen , initiating positive action , or stops them happening ( preventing negative problems ) . |
| 4 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 5 | Nothing happening , you see . |
| 6 | So why is nothing happening to solve the crisis in dog control ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It screwed me up thinking how the invalid 's hopes must have soared at the sound of my entry , and how she must now be falling into deeper and deeper misery because of the silence and the nothing happening . |
| 10 | and a couple of days with nothing happening I 'm saying , well , at least it 's started clearing up , but then |
| 11 | No there 's nothing happening . |
| 12 | I can feel loads of heat but there 's nothing happening |
| 13 | There 's nothing happening Raymond . |
| 14 | Nothing happening and then something happening , really pretty rapidly . |
| 15 | They have come to their agreement , they have done their job well , and they have produced and excellent education system and the blip which he is talking about is one which is forced on us at the present time by a Conservative Government , who has decided that there is going to be no further expansion in the school service which we 're providing , and indeed is imposing upon us cuts which are going to mean that we reduce those services , and to argue that from a point of view that it 's a considered piece of policy from a Government which if I has introduced , if I may say , Poll Tax , an economy which is a disaster area , exports in nothing happening there , inflation |
| 16 | The view from the promenade across the lake is quite breathtaking , and there is always plenty happening . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Really intelligent frogs might wonder if there is something which prevents everything happening all at once , but that 's about as close as they can get to it . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Everything happening in East Germany is financed from private West German industries . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | You 'll see everything happening slowly down there . |
| 23 | After a while , I was woken by the noise of preparations — something happening . |
| 24 | But you can guarantee that there will be something happening in the bars , restaurants and clubs which are buzzing with energy . |
| 25 | Something happening to the horses ? ’ |
| 26 | You will find that there is always something happening in Battle which you will enjoy . |
| 27 | Many have a dread of something happening that will plunge them suddenly into a situation of near-poverty , and a few also unconsciously use their financial problems as pegs on which to hang their much deeper fears concerning their health and their future , which they may find hard to face . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's something happening … |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |