Example sentences of "really happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going away as a means of discovering what was really happening here , he wrote . |
| 2 | The long opening sequence , detailing a mismanaged operation of a baby 's delivery , is an extraordinary feat of simulation , yet it also tends to defeat realism because we know what we are seeing is not really happening . |
| 3 | But look more closely at the statistics , look at what is really happening on the streets and in the shops , look at how people 's lives are changing , and it becomes clear that things are not nearly as bad as they are painted . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was the fact that people believed sexual liberation was going on — somewhere else — that was influential , even if it was not really happening . |
| 6 | I do still have to pinch myself every now and again to convince myself it is really happening … ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I do still pinch myself from time to time to convince myself it is really happening . ’ |
| 8 | Were there no clues to what was really happening ? |
| 9 | But a rapidly escalating body count forces her to face up to what 's really happening . |
| 10 | Is this really happening or is it a wonderful dream ? |
| 11 | I could n't shed the fear that it was n't really happening , that at any minute , some legal snag would get me hauled back to prison . |
| 12 | Only by painstaking research are we able to paint an accurate picture of what is really happening . |
| 13 | ‘ But if you know that person , you can generally disentangle what 's really happening from the rest . |
| 14 | What is really happening ? |
| 15 | Since this high work of fracture — which makes trees able to stand up to the buffetings of life and which makes wood such a useful material — can not be accounted for by any of the recognized work of fracture mechanisms which operate in man-made composites , George set out to find out what was really happening . |
| 16 | In truth she was n't really interested in Taureg 's arrival , but anything that broke the self-imposed purdah of her existence was welcome , she supposed , for she still stood outside the real world , looking in ; a part of her still waited in Yeoman 's Lane and none of this strangeness around her was really happening . |
| 17 | Was this really happening , in Britain , in 1992 ? |
| 18 | Was it really happening in a world where women can be lawyers , prime minister , soldiers or just about anything ? |
| 19 | If what he believed was really happening , then he would need Duncan 's support . |
| 20 | But what is really happening in the youth justice teams around the country , and is it right to condemn the Criminal Justice Act so soon ? |
| 21 | This is often exactly what the panic attack victim thinks and does when they have no idea what is really happening to them . |
| 22 | The lack of human stories led to a sanitised , sterile picture of what was really happening . |
| 23 | ‘ Pathos means longing ; yes , longing and feeling that wonderful things are possible but not really happening ’ |
| 24 | Pathos means longing ; yes , longing and feeling that wonderful things are possible but not really happening . |
| 25 | Over bacon , cabbage and wine we had admired the elegance of the line that as prison walls got lower what was really happening was that prison was not disappearing but dissolving . |
| 26 | He no longer feels he has ‘ to show the scientists that these things are really happening . |
| 27 | While the differences between the crown of France and its vassals were expressed in a language which was essentially feudal ( a new political vocabulary more suited to developments had not yet evolved ) , what was really happening was something remarkably ‘ modern ’ , the laying of the foundations of a national state under one monarch whose territorial authority could only be effectively exercised through annexation or conquest . |
| 28 | A lot of the times what is really happening is that people are being put into artificial jobs . |
| 29 | Now usually we would explain that sort of things in terms of improved sanitation , improvements in the standard of living and so on , but that 's not really happening , there 's no evidence for that in the Chinese countryside in this period . |
| 30 | The second series of questions focuses on what 's really Happening here as the problem . |