Example sentences of "[noun sg] was go on [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Held at the delightfully seedy SW1 Club in Victoria , much of the action was going on in the partitioned-off VIP enclosure . |
| 2 | Mr Annesley said his senior officers were ‘ rigorously assisting ’ Mr Stevens , while Mr Brooke said the investigation was going on in a ‘ thoroughly effective ’ way . |
| 3 | A spirited argument was going on around the sweetheart plant when Rain got back from Hatherley . |
| 4 | A debate was going on within the library profession on the whole question of dispersals and conservation which culminated in a symposium at Loughborough in 1987 chaired by Lord Quinton , Chairman of the British Library Board , and a report by the British Library itself , Selection for Survival : A Review of Acquisition and Retention Policies ( 1989 ) . |
| 5 | Next we went to see what the hell was going on in a couple of places further down the block . |
| 6 | What the hell was going on in the child 's mind . |
| 7 | I mean when he er you know when that thing was going on about the old ? |
| 8 | This fight was going on in the middle of the road . |
| 9 | Obviously , she thought sourly , checking to make sure that no hanky-panky was going on under the table between Piers and her , or else he was still so infatuated that he could n't bear not to look at her for too long . |
| 10 | The real tussle was going on within the fourth dimension itself — the dimension of time — between ITN and BBC . |
| 11 | Evidence that oathing was going on in the reserve was at first dismissed with the claim that the Masai involved were ‘ half-and-halfs ’ , that is , the offspring of a Masai father and a Kikuyu mother : the loyalty of the ‘ pure Masai ’ was thought to be beyond question . |
| 12 | Miss Honey wondered what on earth was going on in the mind of this child . |