Example sentences of "what was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | By screwing her eyes up against the glare , she could just about make out what was going on in the refectory . |
| 32 | I like to think that I share a love of the World Service and an interest in it with Mr. Gorbachev , who gave it one of the best unsolicited testaments that anyone could when he said that while being held prisoner he heard about what was going on in the world by listening to the World Service . |
| 33 | That was very early on in my filming if anyone had asked me I would have said ‘ I 'm always on the move , you know I never sit down in a lesson , and I do n't sit down but where I was on the move was in a very limited space so just having the camera at the back on that table , just having it still showed me so much about what was going on in the room and how you use the time … |
| 34 | Then she could actually see what was going on in the family , which was that her mother was servicing her father , who just looked out of the window most of the time , psychically speaking , while the siblings got on with their rivalry . |
| 35 | Now Mr Atkins former job is as Minister in Northern Ireland so he 's unlikely to know a lot about what was going on in the in the Commons at the end of last session which is a bit unfortunate . |
| 36 | So what was going on in the way of entertainments and things like that when you came to ? |
| 37 | He walked around watching the instructors putting the men through their paces and , as on his last visit , seemed to take a particular interest in what was going on in the boxing ring . |
| 38 | The following day , having asked some leading questions of our local newsagent — Mr Bales always seemed to know exactly what was going on in the terrace and was only too happy to share his knowledge with anyone who wanted to pass the time of day — I presented myself at the offices of John D. Wood in Mount Street . |
| 39 | And we found that many parents were inclined to believe these kinds of reports , and yet this just was n't true if one saw what was going on in the schools . |
| 40 | What , what I would always hope though , is that they might go for some help , because even if they decide to separate , and er get support while they 're doing so , they may be able to understand what was going on in the relationship , what they were looking for in each other . |
| 41 | I had to interrupt her flow of catastrophes to suggest that we try to understand what was going on beneath the surface . |
| 42 | I ca n't see that Cowdrey knew what was going on among the fielders while Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram bowled . |
| 43 | He glanced from time to time out of the window , as if to see what was happening down at the jetty . |
| 44 | And the time is long past when the question of who deserves what was taken out of the hands of politicians and time-serving bureaucrats and given to a genuinely independent and truly meritorious body which might set about trying to put honour back into the honours system . |