Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] what be going on " in BNC.
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31 | I called Ollie on the black phone , the secure phone , to find out what was going on , to fill in my knowledge a little bit more . |
32 | After a short while we could n't stand it any longer ; we had to find out what was going on . |
33 | I was expecting that at any minute Mum would shout down to find out what was going on but she must have been preoccupied , trying on her new frock . |
34 | In fact , the hijack was a plot hatched between the two presenters to fox listeners , some of whom phoned to find out what was going on . |
35 | Wide Awake could n't even be bothered to find out what was going on before penning their vitriolic little missive . |
36 | I was able to meet some of the leading Indian academic figures in English and Linguistics , and at the same time to find out what was going on at the lower levels of teaching in Universities and affiliated Colleges . |
37 | When I found out what was going on I persuaded the colonel to go for a little holiday — and then , ’ he continued angrily when Hilary snorted derisively again , ‘ when I did meet you , I could n't believe my eyes . |
38 | It 's hard to work out what is going on as strobes explode and the shadowy , interchangeable members of HAWKWIND ( for it is they ) hide inside their ethereal pyramids . |
39 | If you do n't know what they mean i anything if you do n't know how to do it it 's hard but if you do n't even know what they mean it 's very hard to work out what 's going on is n't it and what you 're supposed to be doing . |
40 | So we used to sit and listen and try to work out what was going on , which gave the Lone Ranger even more mystery . |
41 | It took me a moment to work out what was going on . |
42 | It took him a moment to work out what was going on . |
43 | Julius 's dark eyes bored into her , as if trying to work out what was going on . |
44 | Surely he did not know precisely what was going on ? |
45 | Falcons are interested in food to the exclusion of everything else , but an owl likes to know precisely what 's going on around it , even if it 's hungry . |
46 | The adult females bob and dance with excitement , standing upright , craning their heads back and forth to see just what is going on . |
47 | It was pretty wonderful to be sitting there watching it all and knowing that I was the only person in the whole school who realised exactly what was going on inside the Trunchbull 's pants . |
48 | All the programmable units in the rack come with special presets unique to Utopia , and a preset chart helps identify exactly what is going on and how to set the levels . |
49 | When we have those results we will really be able to sort out what is going on when a golfer tries to hit that wee white ball . |
50 | Once this is achieved , she suggests , the dichotomy between realism and relativism becomes irrelevant ; both will proceed in the same way in trying to sort out what is going on and what to do . |
51 | You have to sit back and think about this for a moment to sort out what 's going on . |
52 | then it 's a national account , but in terms of the guy not seeing anybody we went to him to sort out what was going on and she must have come away there from with all the sites and said I should n't be dealing with this , it 's a national account , it 's the national account and that 's when I said you must pass it over to then |
53 | you soon figure out what 's going on . |
54 | A Liberal Democrat , Ian Blackstock , said : ‘ We are not being told exactly what is going on . |
55 | Olwyn was told exactly what was going on : the behaviour her parents were trying to stop and what they were trying to get her to do instead . |
56 | When Tom Wilmot at Harvard told dealers around the time of Big Bang : " You should all understand thoroughly what 's going on . |
57 | I ca n't work out what 's going on . ’ |
58 | At times , I just take a breather , actually stop and say , yeah hang on a minute , let's just walk through and work out what 's going on . |
59 | The Enterprise Allowance guys know exactly what 's going on . |
60 | If an organiser does not co-ordinate and monitor and know exactly what 's going on at each stage , then ultimately he has only himself to blame if something goes wrong . |