Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] what be [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will be passed on , but in this instance they all need to be shown how to work it , yes , mhm , so that concerned me a little bit , apparently because they were holding the mike right up to their mouth and it was distorting terribly what 's going on up there |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'd better have a good reason for all this , Lizzy , because I want to know exactly what 's going on with you . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When her gynaecologist asked why , she had told him that , apart from her hatred of injections , she wanted to know exactly what was going on . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Help , she told him , and most of all they wanted , needed , to know exactly what was going on . |
| 8 | Please contact your nearest regional office to find out what is going on in your area . |
| 9 | This computer will include information gathered by area constables whose job is to : ‘ secure the service of at least one observer in every street , not a paid professional informant , but someone who knows the inhabitants and is inquisitive enough to find out what is going on and will pass on information . ’ |
| 10 | They get to find out what is going on in the local employment scene . |
| 11 | People should visit Docklands to find out what is going on inside , and to also check out what Docklands has to offer . |
| 12 | The object of the research is to enable the organization to find out what is going on in the market-place , and to evaluate the impact on customers , competitors and others , of the organization 's own marketing activities . |
| 13 | They tend to ask questions in t in an attempt to find out what is going on . |
| 14 | ‘ The new association will provide , for the first time , the opportunity for people from throughout Scotland to find out what is going on elsewhere , ’ she said . |
| 15 | The trouble is that he ca n't recreate the formula , so he is pretty teed off by the time his fund manager Dr Crane ( Lorraine Bracco ) turns up to find out what 's going on . |
| 16 | Leeds , UK-based VisionWare Ltd is supposed to announce its fourth product at Xhibition this week , but since it has taken a vow of silence everyone will have to wait until Thursday to find out what 's going on . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I must point out about is n't just the Guild a lot of people think it is but it is a good focal point to find out what 's going on and meet people . |
| 19 | And that erm she thinks tutors do n't converse enough er to find out what 's going on . |
| 20 | Maybe she just wants to find out what 's going on . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Look , I need to find out what 's going on . ’ |
| 22 | This gives everyone the chance to find out what 's going on and voice their views . |
| 23 | It takes a crusading type like the Admiral to find out what 's going on and retain the desire to do something about it . ’ |
| 24 | You announce that you want Mr Middleditch and when they say there 's nobody there of that name , you ask if you can ‘ ring the office ’ to find out what 's going on . |
| 25 | You 've got to get into it , 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 | So people have rung in on this direct line to find out what 's going on and things appertaining that could be useful to them . |
| 28 | Essentially you put the person in the centre of a huge magnetic coil , and that allows you to find out what 's going on medically inside the person . |
| 29 | The women centre has served a vital need for the community over the last six or seven years , and if it closes down all that work is basically gone and all the support that we 've build up has gone , because basically there 'll be nowhere that women can go to socialise and to find out what 's going on in Oxford . |
| 30 | Jim Doel , the chief executive , said he had failed to find out what was going on . |