Example sentences of "happen to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do n't really talk about what 's happened in the past , all they 're bothered about is what 's happening to them at present . |
| 2 | When I go past , I wonder what has been happening to her in the intervening years , and that 's very odd . ’ |
| 3 | A lot of personal things had been happening to me during that year . |
| 4 | Tony Visconti : ‘ At that time , we had gone into the studio to record ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , and the horrible thing that was happening to me as a producer , the nightmare of my life , was that David and Angela were becoming totally entwined and enraptured with each other . |
| 5 | What was happening to my body — not only the changes brought about by puberty , but the fact that the clothes it wore and the food it consumed were chosen for it by someone else — was a metaphor for what was happening to me as a whole person . |
| 6 | ‘ It is very hard for me to comprehend what is happening to me at home in Australia let alone here in Britain and around the world . |
| 7 | And it 's it i Seriously , it has happened a few I in my experience over the years I can remember it happening to me at least half a dozen times . |
| 8 | He remained silent , watching her , and her embarrassment grew until in the end she set her glass down with a bang and in desperation said , ‘ So are you going to tell me what 's been happening to you in the last five years ? ’ |
| 9 | He comes into close contact with both a teacher and other children of his own age and many of his future feelings about himself will result from what happens to him at this time . |
| 10 | What happens to them on their retirement from their working life ? |
| 11 | Whatever happens to them at school , children must not be bored . |
| 12 | ‘ What happens to them in the wood ? ’ |
| 13 | and they revolt against it and you 've just got ta keep your fingers crossed that nothing happens to them in that period . |
| 14 | Everything nice happens to me in the autumn . |
| 15 | So what happens to me in the great cultural revolution ? |
| 16 | If anything happens to me in Berlin , I just hope you 'll be sorry . ’ |
| 17 | And this happens to me after spending five months in Brazil — in Rio , Salvador , f'chrissake . |
| 18 | I wholly agree with the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook that it would be inappropriate to oppose the Bill on Second Reading , but , like the right hon. Gentleman , I intend to look closely at what happens to it during its passage through the House . |
| 19 | One of the questions asked , ‘ What do you believe happens to you after death ? ’ |
| 20 | What happens to you after that ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But when it happens to you in that way it 's another ball game entirely . |
| 22 | So nothing that happens to you in the course of your life can possibly change your genes , because they 've already been copied . |
| 23 | If one accepts such a theory , then it gives a reason to all that happens to us during the course of our lives . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Many horses have a lot of negative things happen to them in their lives , like Anna ; but unlike with Anna , they are usually interspersed with good things too — which fortunately have an undoing effect . |
| 27 | ‘ Did anything … anything odd happen to you at Rose Cottage . |
| 28 | ‘ Every now and then things happen to you in life that put everything else in perspective , ’ he explains . |
| 29 | Yesterday a Teesside Crown Court jury was told by James Spencer QC , prosecuting : ‘ That lady survives today but she is permanently brain damaged and disabled and she is unable to say what happened to her on the morning on Wednesday , August 29 , 1990 . ’ |
| 30 | My mother was working class and did n't ever question what happened to her as a cancer patient and the motto I had in the family , in relation to health in particular , was ‘ Do as you 're told ’ . |