Example sentences of "[adv] understand what be [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | She spoke Spanish a little , enough to understand what was going on , although at her interview she had been told that all her patients would be British . |
| 2 | Yet , unfortunately this positive role so often gets lost in the way we have described earlier , with people just not understanding what is going on around them at a time when it could provide them with so much support . |
| 3 | As participants , we often do not understand what is going on in the interchange , so caught up are we with our own agendas . |
| 4 | Yet we do not understand what is going on . |
| 5 | So you can still understand what 's going on with these . |
| 6 | Once you abandoned the theorist 's armchair and his gloomy study and actually got out there among living tribesmen , then and only then could you really understand what was going on . |
| 7 | Trolls can sometimes be persuaded to join Orcs or Goblins as they march to battle , although it is doubtful if they really understand what is going on . |
| 8 | IBM caught onto this but we do n't think it really understood what was going on . |
| 9 | I just ca n't understand what 's going on . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't understand what 's going on here , ’ she said at last . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's rude to speak French when I ca n't understand what 's going on , ’ Alyssia pointed out in a high , clear voice . |
| 12 | No it 's not , because it simply attaches labels to the people and does n't understand what 's going on , |
| 13 | Then Dot could n't understand what was going on . |
| 14 | When the computer was the domain of the ‘ data processing department ’ — with double doors to keep out unwanted irritants like dirt , warm air and people who did n't understand what was going on within — the resident team of programmers and operators went unchallenged . |
| 15 | For a moment Ben could n't understand what was going on , then one of them turned and he saw it was the captain , a man called Rosten . |
| 16 | And she did n't understand what was going on inside his head , which she found disturbing . |
| 17 | Yes , if I can just interject something here which I think is rather striking , when one used to go on holiday on the Continent , going to church was at the same time a bewildering an exciting experience because you could n't understand what was going on . |
| 18 | Well I do n't think actually , I mean I can remember and I do n't quite understand what 's going on here , keeps swapping and changing and I do n't understand it . |