Example sentences of "[adv] understand what was go [adv prt] " 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 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 .
3 IBM caught onto this but we do n't think it really understood what was going on .
4 Then Dot could n't understand what was going on .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 And she did n't understand what was going on inside his head , which she found disturbing .
8 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 .
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