Example sentences of "[adv] know [Wh det] [was/were] going on " in BNC.

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1 It 's inconceivable that Andrew did n't eventually know what was going on .
2 They simply did not know what was going on .
3 Yet in one the father did not know what was going on , and was robbed of all dignity .
4 At the time , however , he believed that Casey truly did not know what was going on .
5 That could only have happened if the Left did not know what was going on , and it could only have not known what was going on if it was being tricked by one of its own .
6 There would be abut 20 people in and they would not know what was going on , ’ says Solowka .
7 The Government can not say , as an excuse , that they did not know what was going on and how it could escalate .
8 The first example above , for instance , implies that Dickens took special care not to represent Chancery in a particular way , which is something we can never know ( we can not know what was going on in Dickens 's head ) .
9 Er we did n't always know what was going on but erm , we did catch the planes when they took off in the morning and we watched them come home in the afternoons and we got some ideas sometimes when things had n't gone quite right and I 'm sure we did share with you in your grief .
10 He set up on his own because the company he worked for , Top Man , did n't really know what was going on , on a street level .
11 I did n't really know what was going on after I 'd had the baby .
12 Too many of us now say that they did n't know what was going on , and that they were long opposed to what was happening .
13 I thought I had all the answers although I did n't know what was going on .
14 I did n't know what was going on , but I was happy to be there , sipping Dennis 's eight-quid-a-bottle plonk , trading glances with his vibrant young — well , youngish — wife and openly admiring the charms of her lovely concentrated body .
15 ‘ We were very lucky when we first came over , ’ acknowledges Niall with a hearty slug of purified H 2 O. ‘ We did n't know what was going on in London , we were just here at the right time to entertain everyone .
16 ‘ They asked about Joanna , and because I did n't know what was going on I said she had been due at the Leisure Centre at 7pm to take her class .
17 ‘ I do n't know what was going on in his mind but it was n't going to do him much good .
18 Therefore I did n't know what was going on to the point where I carried on working in a prefabricated hut hard by the administration block during a very successful students ' occupation in summer 1976 .
19 Some friends who have lost their virginity did so because they did n't know what was going on .
20 I just did n't know what was going on .
21 ‘ I became really sick here for the first time and did n't know what was going on , ’ he recalls .
22 They did n't know what was going on .
23 They did n't know what was going on , like , did n't know what to do , whether to lock me in me room , or let me out and do what I wanted to do , but in the end , like , I just did n't come back here for a coupla months .
24 Buzz did n't know what was going on , but she certainly smelled dishonesty : it probably involved fraud , and it probably involved Adam .
25 I still did n't know what was going on , and was still desperately worried about what was happening at home .
26 I was smashing everything up and setting about people , 'cause I did n't know what was going on or nothing .
27 ‘ I did n't know what was going on .
28 And Sladen did n't know what was going on , either , but I do n't think he wanted to ; he was just scared that somebody would start throwing coffee cups and he 'd get the blame .
29 He did n't know what was going on .
30 I mean o okay it 's , it 's a difficult area but I , I just do n't believe the communications were that bad that he did n't know what was going on and was n't in a position to say look this is wrong .
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