Example sentences of "happen to us " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I wish there were more comments from English journalists to rally Englishmen to what is happening to us today . |
| 3 | Instances of police racial harassment which had always happened to other people , were now happening to us . |
| 4 | What 's happening to us , Goddy ? ’ |
| 5 | What 's Happening To Us ? — Pages 14 and 15 |
| 6 | Seventeen-year-old Indira Hadziomerovic said in despair : ‘ What is happening to us ? |
| 7 | Then one day it happened — the three of us were dispatched to Chard , in Somerset , understanding very little of what was happening to us . |
| 8 | Furthermore , what was happening to us was also happening to others , notably the Germans , and could of course happen to anyone . |
| 9 | ‘ I feel almost guilty that so many good things are happening to us , when such a lot of people are having a bad time , ’ Sarah said . |
| 10 | God knows I tried when I realised what was happening to us , although it was like a starving man walking away from food for me . |
| 11 | We could not conceive of such things happening to us . |
| 12 | Christine had been telling herself : ‘ This is n't something I 've read in the newspapers , this is happening to us ! |
| 13 | Not only are our brains equipped by nature to assess risks of things in a short time ; they are also equipped to assess risks of things happening to us personally , or to a narrow circle of people that we know . |
| 14 | I 'd talked myself into caring more for some worn-out principle than about the reality of what was happening to us . |
| 15 | No doubt the heads were dropping all round — dear oh dear , what 's happening to us ? |
| 16 | And that 's what 's happening to us now |
| 17 | You 've no idea what 's been happening to us ! ’ she said , before suddenly bursting into a storm of tears . |
| 18 | It has been like that , something that was n't happening to us . ’ |
| 19 | We have lived in this peaceful west Stirlingshire village for 32 years , and thought the risk of it happening to us was negligible . |
| 20 | Been a nasty accident happening to us . |
| 21 | Fearful storms sometimes come along our way and we we wonder what is happening to us and we feel that we 're being thrown around and tossed about from side to side , there seems no way out ! |
| 22 | And something that happens to us at least five days in every month — that affects , amongst other things , our sexual feelings , and our body size and shape — why should that be unimportant ? |
| 23 | These , er , workers ’ — his voice took on a faint sneer as he said the word — ‘ these workers suggest that most human behavior is learned , that we are controlled in our actions not by our inheritance but by what happens to us after birth . |
| 24 | Naturally , we can not always choose what happens to us but , once we have reached adulthood , we can choose how much we let those happenings affect us . |
| 25 | If one accepts such a theory , then it gives a reason to all that happens to us during the course of our lives . |
| 26 | Oh Susan , whatever happens to us , we wo n't get Heepish , will we ? |
| 27 | ‘ Happens to us all . |
| 28 | ‘ After all , whatever happens to us Sakata will continue . ’ |
| 29 | As patients we have every right to decide what happens to us . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , if it 's any consolation , it happens to us all ! |