Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [Wh det] be going on " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew that Christie Goldsborough was looking at her strangely and that other people , somewhere in the room — pushing into the doorway to see what was going on — were looking at her too . |
| 2 | This was why they had n't caught on to the idea of the ground being curved , not flat — and so had to invent an imaginary force to explain what was going on . |
| 3 | Second , we can do a great deal to explain what is going on within the funeral service — the symbolism , the words used , the belief that lies behind some of the things said . |
| 4 | When the Princess discovered what was going on she had one terse meeting with her husband and told him : ‘ Why do n't you save yourself a phone call and ring the papers direct ? ’ |
| 5 | His elder brother coming home from the fields and hearing dancing enquired what was going on . |
| 6 | And it , er , er , cos I say demonstrated because we 've got these two people here , er this man and the little girl there who are obviously , erm on a visit to this mill watching what 's going on . |
| 7 | … You really must put it over that it is your job to know every wretched pipe anywhere on this river system … that it 's your job to know what is going on , who is doing what . ’ |
| 8 | I have as much right to know what 's going on as they do . |
| 9 | We have a right to know what is going on , so I went to find out . ’ |
| 10 | The Women 's Section of , the African National Congress in Lusaka , supporting joint action , for the release of political prisoners and detainees , and against forced removals , issued a statement on International Women 's Day , calling upon women of the world to insist on the right to know what is going on in South Africa ; to intensify the campaign for sanctions ; to fight for prisoner of war status for captured combatants ; to support the Save the Patriots campaign and to remember Daisy Modise , the only woman patriot of the 62 prisoners on death row . |
| 11 | We all had the right to do this , but the rest of us would acknowledge the others ' right to know what was going on and why . |
| 12 | The same information will help members of a project team to understand what is going on , and why , strengthening their contribution and going some way to prepare them for the project management role when it comes their way . |
| 13 | The industrial paradigm has been based on the idea that the purpose of life is the satisfaction of our physical needs ( including our intellectual need to understand what is going on in the physical universe ) . |
| 14 | To be a Met Assistant you did n't have to understand the reason why the weather did this or that , you only had to record what was happening and make sure the officer in charge knew what was going on . |
| 15 | I admit I was wrong about the Cairngorms , and I did n't even have the chance to see what was going on behind the plateau to the south . |
| 16 | There is a great deal of talk nowadays of global warming , the ‘ greenhouse effect ’ , the destruction of the ozone layer and so on , and it is difficult for an ordinary person to know what is going on , when even the scientists can not agree . |
| 17 | When he recovered , he 'd let the rest know what was going on . |
| 18 | and yet you know that night Chris , and on that bloody Wednesday night knew what was going on , every bugger knew but Margaret . |
| 19 | I think just the fact that my wife knew what was going on , and knew the problems exactly you know , they had their own meetings and the food parcels that they could organize , you know I would n't have a clue how to go about it , the fact that various shops refused to have collection points inside , and they wrote off to the management of these shops and got that changed . |
| 20 | These all assume that the manager knows what is going on inside the mind of the employee . |
| 21 | The Doctor was using a pocket mirror to see what was going on outside without sticking his head out of the window , Howard was over by a small stove cooking several breakfasts , the hospital staff were milling about seeing to their patients , and Petion was being shaved by an orderly using a piece of broken glass . |
| 22 | If they could see the theatre to see what was going on and an example of audio description |
| 23 | I made my way through the crowds to Farr 's in Brown Street , managed to get right up to the entrance and poke my head around the door to see what was going on . |
| 24 | Dad poked his head round the door to see what was going on and to ask if I 'd seen Mum . |
| 25 | The reasons for this appear to be ( a ) what the students perceive as cashable cheques in the job market and ( b ) a genuine intellectual concern to understand what is going on in their society . |
| 26 | The Church knew what was going on and they could easily have stopped it . |
| 27 | You want the world to see what 's going on and must therefore attract the press and even radio and television . |
| 28 | Let the world see what is going on with these nasty people . ’ |
| 29 | But it 's just so , it 's just the driving force really in this whole play that the audience knows what 's going on . |
| 30 | Thousands of red blood cells are crushed by the impact of your feet with the pavement , and scores of white cells cascade out of your spleen into the bloodstream to see what 's going on . |