Example sentences of "happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim is to present a brief overview of what is happening to historic pubs today , and to provide suggestions as to how this perceived threat to our old pubs can be effectively limited . |
| 2 | I could n't afford anywhere to hide — what was happening to me ? |
| 3 | After a little more flying experience , beginners ' eyes interpret what is happening to the aircraft and the alarm signal is no longer sent on to the brain . |
| 4 | The good news is that you can take steps to prevent heart attacks happening to you and your family . |
| 5 | Something very interesting and very clever had been happening to the Direct Line Insurance tournament at Beckenham lately . |
| 6 | While Dr Higgs is excluded from Cleveland , other doctors in Cleveland can not discount the same thing happening to them . |
| 7 | As a producer , MacCabe is naturally enough dismayed by this pro-directorial bias : ‘ If you look at what 's been happening to British cinema over the last 10 years or so , then it 's clear that it has tended to be production-led — names like Working Title , Palace Films or Zenith are as important as those of any individual director . |
| 8 | She has offered her plight as an example of what is happening to many small producers . |
| 9 | Clearly something strange was happening to the Edwardian Conservative party : but does one need to label it as a flirtation with ‘ proto-Fascism ’ ? |
| 10 | But that is just what is happening to black people coming to Britain as dependants and visitors . |
| 11 | Without a knowledge of what was happening to Germanic diphthongs and vowels in the Dark Ages , however , even a clever pupil at Oxford in those days would have done badly . |
| 12 | No doubt there were many contributory external or psychological factors in what was happening to the way he perceived his own personality . |
| 13 | Shortly before he admitted what was happening to him , he re-read the Hippolytus of Euripides . |
| 14 | With this coherent team , in many ways bonded to the studio , Balcon set out to make films that mirrored what was happening to British society and fulfilled his aim of building up ‘ a native industry with its roots firmly planted in the soil of this country . ’ |
| 15 | The films give an increasingly wide berth to messy problems like sexuality and violence and , whereas Ealing 's films during and immediately after the war had interrogated what was happening to England , many or those made in the 1950s just do n't seem interested . |
| 16 | Things just keep happening to him . |
| 17 | Richard Nelson , Director of Market Research Services at Campbell Soups All consumers want is to be told what is happening to their food , how safe it is and what is its quality … |
| 18 | Tony Visconti : ‘ At that time , we had gone into the studio to record ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , and the horrible thing that was happening to me as a producer , the nightmare of my life , was that David and Angela were becoming totally entwined and enraptured with each other . |
| 19 | While the greening of the electorate was rapidly taken aboard and she was impressed by the fact that acid rain could damage international relations as surely as it did stonework and trees , what caught her imagination were the profound implications of what was happening to the chemistry of the deeper atmosphere . |
| 20 | The politicians will not tell us of what is happening to the environment . |
| 21 | Jane , the supreme example of self-control , did not know what was happening to her ! |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And suddenly so much was happening to you and , by extension , to me . |
| 24 | ‘ That congregational aspect — which is a pretty Presbyterian word and I quite like the connotation — of the emotional effect of things happening to people while they 're gathered together , that was the big thing in the early acid clubs , that feeling that you were in a place with 200 people all going the same way as you , all into being there , enjoying being in this mass of people … … |
| 25 | What is happening to me , she asked , sitting on the bed and holding out a shaking hand , what is wrong ? |
| 26 | ‘ It is very hard for me to comprehend what is happening to me at home in Australia let alone here in Britain and around the world . |
| 27 | I wish there were more comments from English journalists to rally Englishmen to what is happening to us today . |
| 28 | But something more serious was happening to reality . |
| 29 | Something was happening to me . |
| 30 | That would mean getting past the party , getting past whatever was happening to the guests . |