Example sentences of "was happening to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't afford anywhere to hide — what was happening to me ? |
| 2 | Clearly something strange was happening to the Edwardian Conservative party : but does one need to label it as a flirtation with ‘ proto-Fascism ’ ? |
| 3 | Without a knowledge of what was happening to Germanic diphthongs and vowels in the Dark Ages , however , even a clever pupil at Oxford in those days would have done badly . |
| 4 | No doubt there were many contributory external or psychological factors in what was happening to the way he perceived his own personality . |
| 5 | Shortly before he admitted what was happening to him , he re-read the Hippolytus of Euripides . |
| 6 | With this coherent team , in many ways bonded to the studio , Balcon set out to make films that mirrored what was happening to British society and fulfilled his aim of building up ‘ a native industry with its roots firmly planted in the soil of this country . ’ |
| 7 | The films give an increasingly wide berth to messy problems like sexuality and violence and , whereas Ealing 's films during and immediately after the war had interrogated what was happening to England , many or those made in the 1950s just do n't seem interested . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | While the greening of the electorate was rapidly taken aboard and she was impressed by the fact that acid rain could damage international relations as surely as it did stonework and trees , what caught her imagination were the profound implications of what was happening to the chemistry of the deeper atmosphere . |
| 10 | Jane , the supreme example of self-control , did not know what was happening to her ! |
| 11 | And suddenly so much was happening to you and , by extension , to me . |
| 12 | But something more serious was happening to reality . |
| 13 | Something was happening to me . |
| 14 | That would mean getting past the party , getting past whatever was happening to the guests . |
| 15 | This kind of teaching , it was argued , implicitly if not explicitly , was unacceptable because it would lead to an undermining of loyalty to the nation and government in minds too tender truly to comprehend the import of what was happening to them . |
| 16 | Now she would have to think , that was what was happening to her mind . |
| 17 | She remained conscious , but became increasingly disorientated , losing all awareness of where she was or what was happening to her . |
| 18 | What exactly was happening to him ? |
| 19 | He had special qualities of sensitivity , patience , rationality , intelligence , and wit ; and when those qualities were completely unobservable , I became quite concerned about what was happening to him , you know , what was the meaning of his life at this point . |
| 20 | But now what had happened to the old guard was happening to him , too . |
| 21 | Of course , I 'd heard of AIDS and the destruction of that immunity , but somehow that was happening to homosexuals in LA or Brighton and not here with me , deep in the pastoral Hampshire countryside . |
| 22 | True Londoners were sobered up by what was happening to their town , but young fellows , sometimes coming from as far as California , felt very lost and lonely , and sometimes escaped via the bottle . |
| 23 | Betsy Wilson asked if a breakdown of the figures could be given in community magazine so that people would know what was happening to their money . |
| 24 | I did n't know what was happening to me ! |
| 25 | Even while it was happening to me , I could n't believe it . |
| 26 | We could n't think what was happening to you . ’ |
| 27 | So much , too much , was happening to him all at once . |
| 28 | But the maddest thing , Anton , how he was and what was happening to him , he could not scream out the shame of it . |
| 29 | Uncles and aunts were likely to be out of touch with what was happening to their family on the continent , and sometimes there were tensions and disagreements which had caused them to move away in the first place . |
| 30 | She could n't bear to remember the dreadful things she had said that day , any more than she could think about what was happening to Maggie now . |