Example sentences of "really [be] going [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What has really been going on in this establishment ? |
| 2 | ‘ It was all thanks to a woman at the meeting today that I had my first inkling of what had really been going on . ’ |
| 3 | This time they hope they really are going up , where they belong . |
| 4 | But one of the most persistent and pernicious myths we 've inherited from Descartes is that mentality is essentially conscious , so that anything we ca n't introspect ca n't really be going on in our mind . |
| 5 | ‘ If they 're hiring your sort of freelance now , we must really be going downhill fast . ’ |
| 6 | Yet , somehow , because the mind of another creature is such alien territory to us , we find it difficult to accept that such mental activity and subjective sensory awareness , really is going on . |
| 7 | So , for example if somebody does reject a young man in a way that erm is n't appropriate in his eyes , he might then go around and start calling her all sorts of names and generally making other men think of her in bad way , and of course no eighteen year old woman wants young men to think badly of her , and so she puts pressure on herself not to reject advances too openly or too obviously or something like that , and the whole cycle starts again , and so and I think this is the sort of thing the college just can not have anything to do with , because that really is going too far , that 's interfering with the the one thing we could do , perhaps , is talk to the young women and make it clear that they do have the right to reject advances and that what they 've got to be concerned about whilst they 're at university is they 're academic career and making sure that that is n't affected by harassment . |