Example sentences of "[vb past] to be happening " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 2 | Something more fundamental than the ‘ banana skin ’ of Westland seemed to be happening . |
| 3 | The paint surface grew a little cracked and mouldy , but nothing else seemed to be happening . |
| 4 | Then , as nothing seemed to be happening , her mother took her home again . |
| 5 | The country was at war and yet nothing seemed to be happening ; everything looked so peaceful . |
| 6 | Nothing seemed to be happening , all his senses were apparently functioning normally , except … that the sweet in his mouth seemed permeated with the awful smell ; had become a slimy lump of filth . |
| 7 | What seemed to be happening was the spread of population growth out from the major urban centres where it had occurred in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries progressively to the more rural periphery , leaving a population loss in its wake . |
| 8 | He could indeed hear breathing , though it was true of course that it might be his own , since everything about himself seemed to be happening so far away for the moment . |
| 9 | He wanted to move , to step back , but nothing seemed to be happening . |
| 10 | When nothing seemed to be happening , he yanked it open . |
| 11 | Such odd things seemed to be happening . |
| 12 | Nothing much seemed to be happening . |
| 13 | And when you started to talk about marriage , it all seemed to be happening again . |
| 14 | Strange things seemed to be happening to her voice , and her words came in a sort of confused mumble . |
| 15 | The management ref refused to talk all the time and after a while it just got depressing , the fact that nothing seemed to be happening . |
| 16 | I left school in 1942 and got a job at the airport , which at the times we were living in always something exciting seemed to be happening . |
| 17 | From inside , he could keep an eye on his own house where nothing much seemed to be happening . |
| 18 | At least , nothing appeared to be happening , that is on paper . |
| 19 | The following two pieces illustrate the way in which European involvement in the Stop The Clause campaign was necessitated both by horror of what appeared to be happening in Britain , and by a concern about what was also happening in Europe . |
| 20 | Damned quiet in the dining room , he 'd thought , as he crossed the hall , and if Bea Smith was in a room and it was quiet then something pretty peculiar had to be happening . |