Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [Wh det] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation has thrown me a bit and I shall be talking to him again because I want to know exactly what 's going on . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd better have a good reason for all this , Lizzy , because I want to know exactly what 's going on with you . ’ |
| 3 | Yes , I mean we obviously feel that there are people who ca n't sit and listen or watch continually , and people who do dip in and out , but they still nonetheless want to know exactly what 's going on . |
| 4 | Maybe she just wants to find out what 's going on . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At that point I abandoned the meeting and tried to find out what was happening . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've come to find out what 's happening to my father 's business . ’ |
| 8 | Her hands were sore from beating against the hard wood , and she rubbed them absently as she tried to figure out what was going on . |
| 9 | We 'll time to find out what 's coming up on the six thirty edition of the show . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She knew me as Matt and I did n't want to alert you to who I was until I 'd found out what was going on . |
| 12 | He would go some way to doing so if he told the House tonight that he intends to monitor carefully what is happening and to initiate independent research into the strengths and weaknesses of the new system in its initial stages . |
| 13 | Wide Awake could n't even be bothered to find out what was going on before penning their vitriolic little missive . |
| 14 | It is attempting to find out what is causing the mix , indicating it does not have its fingers on the distribution pulse because of its two-tiered channel . |
| 15 | They get to find out what is going on in the local employment scene . |
| 16 | Clarkson felt compelled to see just what was happening in Berlin when the celebrations began . |
| 17 | So we used to sit and listen and try to work out what was going on , which gave the Lone Ranger even more mystery . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll try to find out what 's happening , ’ Ernest said . |
| 19 | But even so , why had he not come running to find out what was happening ? |
| 20 | There was no way either of them could have worked out what was going on . |
| 21 | Children pick up on our worries and stress , so try to find out what 's bothering her and take time to reassure her . |
| 22 | Whatever happens work slowly and if the board jams try to find out what is holding it or stopping it moving rather than just forcing it ! |
| 23 | Less directly but equally importantly , people living in the vicinity of a large plant would not take kindly to the idea that it was not under the control of human beings who are on the spot and are assumed to know exactly what is happening . |
| 24 | It is often necessary to look at the water 's surface and try to visualise exactly what is happening beneath it — to imagine the fish in their own world and how best it might be to get a bait to them . |
| 25 | The telephone lines of companies such as Thew Engineering , when the share price was going down , have been constantly busy with shareholders trying to find out what 's going on . |
| 26 | ‘ One of the worst things of all , ’ Stuart Bell had said , ‘ is trying to find out what 's going on . |
| 27 | Although surely it was his business , was n't it , trying to get Celia well , trying to find out what was causing , as Adams referred to it , her emotional and mental block ? |
| 28 | Unfortunately , I said the longer he chose to ignore me and others who were trying to find out what was making him so unhappy , the more chance there was that decisions about his future might be made regardless of his willingness to discuss his situation . |
| 29 | We want to spend some money on employ Enforcement Officer to stop happening again which is going to be so costly to this Council . |
| 30 | 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 . |