Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] what be going " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Wide Awake could n't even be bothered to find out what was going on before penning their vitriolic little missive . |
| 9 | They get to find out what is going on in the local employment scene . |
| 10 | So we used to sit and listen and try to work out what was going on , which gave the Lone Ranger even more mystery . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ One of the worst things of all , ’ Stuart Bell had said , ‘ is trying to find out what 's going on . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | After a short while we could n't stand it any longer ; we had to find out what was going on . |
| 15 | It is difficult for it to distinguish between one sort of pain and another , when trying to work out what is going wrong . |
| 16 | Julius 's dark eyes bored into her , as if trying to work out what was going on . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They 're trying to figure out what 's going on , what they 're going to grow into . |
| 19 | She crept back to the door and pressed her ear against it , trying to figure out what was going on outside . |
| 20 | She was very tempted to ask just what was going on . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Look , I need to find out what 's going on . ’ |
| 23 | Jim Doel , the chief executive , said he had failed to find out what was going on . |
| 24 | If the silicon chips coming off a production line begin to fail , ordinary optical-microscope pictures of the minute circuitry can often help to sort out what is going wrong . |