Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] be [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the police do not need to be certain that a person has heard or seen what is going on before they can call for quiet under the Act ( since it is sufficient that they have reasonable cause to believe that an offence is being committed ) , they would afterwards have to conduct house to house enquiries before they could truthfully say that the conduct was actually heard or seen by a bystander . |
| 2 | Of course , nobody saw or heard what was going on . |
| 3 | So , as soon as the misbehaviour begins , turn away or walk away from your child ; pretend not to see or hear what is going on ; say nothing and try not to show any expression at all ; resist getting into any debate , argument or discussion with your child while he or she is misbehaving . |
| 4 | On the Dipper , if you had your eyes shut and your ears plugged up — so you could n't see or hear what was going on — and you just thought about how heavy or light you felt , and what was happening to your tummy — you would n't know for sure what was happening . |
| 5 | When I came off , I felt I needed to sort of keep in touch , sort of speaking to people that know what 's going on and know what 's going on in ex-users ' heads , y'know . |
| 6 | The head was away and that was dreadful because he was one of the few people that knew what was going on because the community adviser told him that home/school links was an area that we should think about ; that is the school . |
| 7 | Rain ousted Zak Smythe from her chair and asked what was going on . |
| 8 | When the fiddler leading the dancing stopped playing and asked what was going on , he was ordered to carry on , as though nothing was happening . |
| 9 | So I always try to do that but I , I , again I find that it 's very erm very tiring and it 's very , gets very can get very involved with it , so I would like us , I 'd like you to think of the idea of a social secretary to help with the raffles and organizing what 's going on at the meetings please . |
| 10 | My eye fell on a page she had left on the kitchen table the other day and I had noted , before I could avert my eyes , a pretty scholarly history of my conversion to double-knotting , after an incident when I was unable to get out of the train at Greenwich one evening and found myself being carried on to Maze Hill , because someone was standing on the trailing lace of my shoe . |
| 11 | The Governors control very much of the finances of the school and supervise what is going on . |
| 12 | Sam claims her father breached the trust she placed in him and says he is holding on to her cash . |
| 13 | ‘ I quite enjoy watching all the people go by , ’ says Howard , ‘ and wondering what 's going on inside their heads . ’ |
| 14 | He says that , ‘ DTX-2 , like its biogenetic relatives acts as an ‘ on-off ’ switch for certain phosphatase enzymes and could open a door in the cell for us to look inside and see what is going on ’ . |
| 15 | The things you have to do make it progressively more and more difficult for you to really get around and see what 's going on in your factories . |
| 16 | I 'll just nip out and see what 's going on . |
| 17 | Do you want to go and see what 's going on in the sitting room ? |
| 18 | So I decided to follow along and see what was going on . ’ |
| 19 | Riven stood on tiptoe to try and see what was going on . |
| 20 | There are possibilities for encouraging pupils to listen to their own reading on tape , and to discuss what is going on , with the aims of helping them toward cognitive clarity and the expression of their feelings about the text . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's rude to try and understand what 's going on when it must be obvious that it 's none of your business . ’ |
| 22 | Also , it is vital from the point of view of ethics that you can hear and understand what is going on . |
| 23 | Once these kinds of needs are satisfied , the theory suggests that individual motivations will be shaped by behaviour that is associated with : The need to gain self-esteem in the eyes of other people , for instance through the possession of prestigious objects , taking expensive holidays , making donations to charity , etc. * the need to know and understand what is going on around them . |
| 24 | And look what 's going on . ’ |
| 25 | When I came off , I felt I needed to sort of keep in touch , sort of speaking to people that know what 's going on and know what 's going on in ex-users ' heads , y'know . |
| 26 | I know one or two of them try and work it on the phone … but I like to go out and have a look and know what 's going on . ’ |
| 27 | And to be interested you 've got to attend your branch meetings and know what 's going on . |
| 28 | And tell you , and hear what is going on . |
| 29 | I just kept my mouth shut and watched what was going on . |
| 30 | Therapist : ‘ What we will do in this first session is an assessment of exactly what 's going on : first we will look at the problems at the moment ; second we will look at background factors such as your family and personal history ; and third we will try to pull it all together and formulate what is going on , and then decide on what the best course of action is . |