Example sentences of "thing [verb] be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of personal things had been happening to me during that year . |
| 2 | In a few hours of concentrated assault he could destroy months of determined surreptitious growth ; but then he would discover some other , overlooked area where things had been going to the dogs unheeded and some valiantly struggling patch of wood anemone or bluebells had been choked to the last gasp . |
| 3 | I 'd like to know who cut the strings of her tennis racket too , the first formers looked at one another , it certainly is queer the way things have been happening to poor Mary Lou lately , even her prayer book had disappeared and some of her pencils had gone . |
| 4 | The Thing had been listening to radio and television and had found the place the going-straight-up Shuttles went from . |
| 5 | And er an interesting thing had been coming to our house She comes goes to the same church . |