Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [Wh det] [was/were] going " in BNC.
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1 | I wanted to know more about what was going on . |
2 | So if I had a queue is n't it , I just used to carry on with whatever was going on . |
3 | He was not so ill , however , that he was unable to keep up with what was going on . |
4 | The books of Mary Somerville ( e.g. , On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences , 1834 ) proved valuable to men of science wanting to keep up with what was going on in other fields , and unable to understand it all even if they had had time to read it . |
5 | Otherwise it was something to be put across in demonstration-lectures to those wanting to keep up with what was going on , but not to bother with too much detail . |
6 | ‘ Why did it take so long for the world to wake up to what was going on , ’ she asked repeatedly . |
7 | When Laughton caught on to what was going on , he became paranoid and refused to work . |
8 | I do n't suppose she was more than forty , yet — It was n't that she looked old , but there was something about her , as if she was somehow apart from what was going on . ’ |