Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [Wh det] [was/were] going on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe that my account of events is a good deal nearer the truth than some that have since been published : but then I was perhaps in a better position than some other observers to know what was going on . |
| 2 | But such a definition was in effect very vague and blunt and was notoriously difficult for the Church to apply : it followed that many harmless groups were confused with heretical ones by the authorities in their attempts to control what was going on . |
| 3 | By 27 May , though , things had quietened down sufficiently for a daring ( or foolhardy ) party to charter a steamboat from Batavia ( now Djakarta ) and sail out to the islands to see what was going on . |
| 4 | Sally stared at the curtains wondering what was going on behind them . |
| 5 | By visitation of the monastic and parish churches within their dioceses , the bishops heard what was going on . |
| 6 | Privately , those Labour councillors knew what was going on and why , and that the vast majority — if not 99 per cent . |
| 7 | At the time , as the stations were being built , it was much less easy for outsiders to see what was going on , or to make informed assessments of the rosy promises being made about the future . |
| 8 | Conversely , we would be impressed by another yogi who could alter these processes in his intestines on a word of command but made no claims to know what was going on down there from moment to moment . |