Example sentences of "[adv] happening to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all happening to him , right there in a see-through plastic telephone nodule in the airport concourse with the crowds jostling and plaintive announcements coming over the Tannoy system , and the orange-juice machines gurgling and travellers humping suitcases about with those peculiarly tense expressions people always adopt prior to a long-haul flight . |
| 2 | ‘ With Jimmy just happening to be there ? ’ |
| 3 | It really did n't feel like it was such big stuff , it was just happening to me and I believed I was going to be all right . |
| 4 | Finally , the strategies for change can be found in an analysis of what has gone before and a cultural intervention in what is socially happening to disabled people . |
| 5 | A plant you do n't water , it droops but it does not die/your collection of erotic images is considerable but it 's always happening to someone else . |
| 6 | " Things like this are always happening to me , " she said , and shrugged put her elbows on the sill of the window and smiled down at him . |
| 7 | Dennis Parsons was so deeply and intrinsically boring that it was almost impossible to imagine anything as exciting as being murdered ever happening to him . |
| 8 | It is impossible to imagine such an accident ever happening to the meticulous and super-observant John Gould , but Darwin was no ornithologist , and , as a naturalist , he had had little training in the disciplines of collecting or identification . |
| 9 | Furthermore , what was happening to us was also happening to others , notably the Germans , and could of course happen to anyone . |
| 10 | Instances of police racial harassment which had always happened to other people , were now happening to us . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This is often exactly what the panic attack victim thinks and does when they have no idea what is really happening to them . |
| 13 | Frau Geller murmured something to her companion about it never happening to a woman unless she 'd been asking for it . |
| 14 | They could n't believe it was all real — that the nightmare was actually happening to them . |
| 15 | She still could n't quite believe that all this was actually happening to her . |