Example sentences of "something happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while , I was woken by the noise of preparations — something happening . |
| 2 | But you can guarantee that there will be something happening in the bars , restaurants and clubs which are buzzing with energy . |
| 3 | Something happening to the horses ? ’ |
| 4 | You will find that there is always something happening in Battle which you will enjoy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's something happening … |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 9 | … I suppose sometimes I get a slight instinct for something happening . |
| 10 | It 's not just pretty reed-beds , windmills and tourists ; there 's something happening all the year round . ’ |
| 11 | But the fact is there is something happening … . |
| 12 | Something happening below : Tap , tap , tap . |
| 13 | I detect something happening to the profile of the flying binbag ; at the top of its arc the shape bulges in its upper surface , a small clenched fist bursts through , punching the dark . |
| 14 | The shop assistant 's attention was suddenly caught by something happening out on the road , in the passing traffic . |
| 15 | And an enjoyable match frankly there 's always er something happening it 's lively . |
| 16 | ‘ It would make a nice change to have something happening in this place for once . |
| 17 | There seemed to be something happening ; his vision was misting over . |
| 18 | I 've always had a rather ambivalent attitude towards something happening to my father , and it persists . |
| 19 | Things could n't go on as they were without something happening , and she had intuitively known that when it did her life would be forever changed . |
| 20 | It 's not like cricket ; there 's something happening all the time . |
| 21 | Something happening at your club . |
| 22 | And the other thing erm which er er is good , supposing you 're watching er a programme and there 's a football match on and you 're interested in the , the football er but you do n't really want to keep , you know , switching to find out what the score is , er I 'm talking about teletext as opposed to a programme , you press the update and it w er and if something 's happened , you know , they 've changed and there 's been a score , it 'll come up er er while you 're watching the programme , er it 'll let you know that erm there 's been something happening . |
| 23 | Nothing happening and then something happening , really pretty rapidly . |
| 24 | When something happens and I ca n't look after myself any more the situation will be different , but at the moment what I 'd really like most is my independence back . ’ |
| 25 | There are times when something happens to raise an issue high in the public consciousness — as Cleveland did child sex abuse — but the person responsible pays the price . |
| 26 | Unless something happens swiftly , the market is going to be uncertain for some time . ’ |
| 27 | We do n't on the whole mind the isolation until something happens to rock the applecart — a death , a loss , a crisis . |
| 28 | Until something happens . |
| 29 | He knows where nothing can go wrong , where the young man is worrying ‘ My God , if something happens which I have not calculated for … ’ . |
| 30 | Unless something happens , energy use in Europe is expected to rise by 25 per cent by the year 2000 , with carbon dioxide emissions up by 20 per cent . |