Example sentences of "[verb] what be [verb] on in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The ordinary public would n't be interested , but some people , people like me , for instance , have to know what 's going on in town . |
| 2 | I am desperate to know what 's going on in there . |
| 3 | They , I think like everybody else were succumbed to the fact that readers do like to know what 's going on in the Royal Family . |
| 4 | okay , anybody got any other reasons why they think that maybe we ought to know what 's going on in other countries , why , why would we be interested in the roots in Kenya , India , why would we be interested in those countries ? |
| 5 | ‘ I want to know what is going on in Birmingham , chapter and verse . ’ |
| 6 | Scottish Office Ministers are extremely selective about when we are operating in a unitary Parliament with unitary interests and when we are operating as a small segment of the United Kingdom when that segment is not supposed to know what is going on in another . |
| 7 | The Women 's Section of , the African National Congress in Lusaka , supporting joint action , for the release of political prisoners and detainees , and against forced removals , issued a statement on International Women 's Day , calling upon women of the world to insist on the right to know what is going on in South Africa ; to intensify the campaign for sanctions ; to fight for prisoner of war status for captured combatants ; to support the Save the Patriots campaign and to remember Daisy Modise , the only woman patriot of the 62 prisoners on death row . |
| 8 | It was good to have adults about as we were to find out , also it was nice to know what was going on in SW1 apart from evening classes . |
| 9 | It was impossible to know what was going on in her mind , but he was thankful that she seemed in no way agitated . |
| 10 | They just wanted to know what was going on in East Germany there and then . |
| 11 | His face was set , making it impossible for her to guess what was going on in his mind . |
| 12 | I suddenly realized recently that I 'm so far short of having any kind of representational experience that I just do n't know what 's going on in this country . |
| 13 | I do n't know what 's going on in the hospital . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't know what 's going on in your head , but I 'm telling you now , if you have any ideas in that direction , you 're on a loser . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I know which players I want and which ones to release , but I do n't know what 's going on in the boardroom . ’ |
| 16 | And we do n't know what 's going on in it do we ? |
| 17 | Do n't know what 's going on in there do you ? |
| 18 | ‘ We were very lucky when we first came over , ’ acknowledges Niall with a hearty slug of purified H 2 O. ‘ We did n't know what was going on in London , we were just here at the right time to entertain everyone . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't know what was going on in his mind but it was n't going to do him much good . |
| 20 | I 'm sorry you had to worry about me because I would n't let you know what was going on in my mind , but I hope now you 'll realise why I kept silent for so long . |
| 21 | ‘ How else would I know what was going on in Cologne ? ’ said the Prior blandly . |
| 22 | The first example above , for instance , implies that Dickens took special care not to represent Chancery in a particular way , which is something we can never know ( we can not know what was going on in Dickens 's head ) . |
| 23 | er we both met him to try and make a plea to him to try and change his views and it 's fair to say that he does n't know or did n't know what was going on in his own backyard and John Patten I feel is the same as is the rest of the M P's in the Oxfordshire area . |
| 24 | Although it is easy to observe what is going on in practice , constructing an explicit statement of what the system is that is being considered inevitably gives rise to problems of interpretation and semantics . |
| 25 | These are the people who do n't consider what 's going on in your mind , merely what goes on your feet ( the London club Kazoo turns people away if they happen to be wearing Wallabees ) . |
| 26 | I 'm not saying that people would have never changed their ideas but if it would have been done in the manner that it would have been done in in the first place and if people would have been told about their future lives and if people had been , would 've accepted what was going on in light of all the decisions that have been taken previously regarding the merger issue . |
| 27 | ‘ No , but then I do n't usually have to wonder what 's going on in the mind of the person who 's made the offer , ’ she returned . |
| 28 | Erm and he 's imagining what 's going on in it . |
| 29 | Emily felt a sudden anger against the Grenfells , they had allowed this to happen to her father , even Craig had not been innocent , he should have seen what was going on in his own business . |
| 30 | We think that 'll lead to fairer fining , and I think that 's right , and I welcome what 's going on in north Oxfordshire ; it follows four experiments that the Home Office has had in other parts of the country . |