Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] what be going 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 | Surely he did not know precisely what was going on ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The adult females bob and dance with excitement , standing upright , craning their heads back and forth to see just what is going on . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A Liberal Democrat , Ian Blackstock , said : ‘ We are not being told exactly what is going on . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When Tom Wilmot at Harvard told dealers around the time of Big Bang : " You should all understand thoroughly what 's going on . |
| 16 | The Enterprise Allowance guys know exactly what 's going on . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I know you , Lissa ; I know you far better than you think , and I know exactly what 's going on in that secretive labyrinth of a mind . |
| 19 | The barn where it was held was owned by a local farmer , John Ellis , and if Kate knew anything about it , he had known exactly what was going on . |
| 20 | But failure to appreciate the force of this distinction can also shipwreck attempts by observers to understand religion — to read correctly what is going on as a person performs a religious ritual or speaks religious words ( see Chapter 10 where an assessment task on this is suggested ) . |
| 21 | Neither of the girls understand fully what is going on around them and in Scout 's case , her incomprehension is sometimes comical , for instance , Jem grasps long before she does that it is Boo Radley who was putting the gifts in the tree as a friendly gesture from him to them and he lets Scout continue to wonder long after the reader has also guessed it was Boo Radley . |
| 22 | Sandison could not be sure how much Maidstone had had to drink that day — it was still a few minutes before noon — but he knew that he was sober enough to understand fully what was going on . |
| 23 | The rest were wrapped up in a fog , from drugs or cracked minds , but Anne knew exactly what was going on . |
| 24 | And to make sure everybody knew exactly what was going on , planning chiefs held a press conference on the beach , while the SAS-style commandos held a photo-call . |
| 25 | We were coming in , white , black , Indian , they knew exactly what was going on . |
| 26 | You know when his boss came in then things went downhill but yeah certainly Tom helped me and just the fact that there was someone there who knew exactly what was going on , be it not a lot but , he was trying to help us , and give us advice and what have you . |
| 27 | So in a way I welcome the fact that these figures bear a little more relationship to the real situation er than last year 's did , but we 're still a long way short of knowing exactly what 's going on . |
| 28 | Right er let me explain briefly what 's going on . |
| 29 | She was very tempted to ask just what was going on . |
| 30 | C64 Starballs features some great animation , but it 's damned difficult to explain exactly what 's going on . |