Example sentences of "was [verb] on around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work was carried on around the lump in a fairly ordered pattern helping to keep everything in proportion . |
| 2 | I just stood and stared for a few moments amid all the activity that was going on around the wounded Lovat . |
| 3 | By the time the Warriors had reached the objective , the riflemen in the back had been sufficiently aware of what was going on around them to know that their own survival would depend on the spirit of fight they could produce . |
| 4 | I saw David shovelling more and more , he was getting more tired , more irritable , more run-down and less able to control the madness that was going on around him . |
| 5 | The ‘ penetration of the universe ’ in physical terms was going on around her . |
| 6 | Any situation that increased the farmer 's confidence in what was going on around him on his own farm was beneficial to the business . |
| 7 | Karloff recalled the chaos that was going on around him : ‘ When we started filming , the removal men came to take away the sets . |
| 8 | He neither knew , nor really cared , what was going on around him . |
| 9 | Throughout the whole period of study , I kept detailed field-notes , not only of factual occurrences , but also of my subjective reactions to what was going on around me . |
| 10 | He also noticed a reduction in Miss T. 's awareness of what was going on around her and mentioned it to the nursing staff who told him that it was the effect of the drugs . |
| 11 | Others said it must have been that girl who worked here , the one who was the German officer 's mistress , she knew everything that was going on around here . |
| 12 | A spirited argument was going on around the sweetheart plant when Rain got back from Hatherley . |
| 13 | He did have more of an interest in what was going on around him than Wellington . |