Example sentences of "[verb] out what was going on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim Doel , the chief executive , said he had failed to find out what was going on . |
| 2 | I called Ollie on the black phone , the secure phone , to find out what was going on , to fill in my knowledge a little bit more . |
| 3 | After a short while we could n't stand it any longer ; we had to find out what was going on . |
| 4 | I was expecting that at any minute Mum would shout down to find out what was going on but she must have been preoccupied , trying on her new frock . |
| 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 | Wide Awake could n't even be bothered to find out what was going on before penning their vitriolic little missive . |
| 7 | I was able to meet some of the leading Indian academic figures in English and Linguistics , and at the same time to find out what was going on at the lower levels of teaching in Universities and affiliated Colleges . |
| 8 | When I found out what was going on I persuaded the colonel to go for a little holiday — and then , ’ he continued angrily when Hilary snorted derisively again , ‘ when I did meet you , I could n't believe my eyes . |
| 9 | So we used to sit and listen and try to work out what was going on , which gave the Lone Ranger even more mystery . |
| 10 | It took me a moment to work out what was going on . |
| 11 | It took him a moment to work out what was going on . |
| 12 | Julius 's dark eyes bored into her , as if trying to work out what was going on . |
| 13 | then it 's a national account , but in terms of the guy not seeing anybody we went to him to sort out what was going on and she must have come away there from with all the sites and said I should n't be dealing with this , it 's a national account , it 's the national account and that 's when I said you must pass it over to then |
| 14 | I could n't make out what was going on so I began walking towards the image , binoculars pressed to my eyes . |
| 15 | By screwing her eyes up against the glare , she could just about make out what was going on in the refectory . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He must either go home and try to forget all that had happened or creep up the hill and find out what was going on . |
| 18 | He 'd been about to call him and find out what was going on in Brooklyn when he 'd heard the voice and the rapping on the door . |
| 19 | The short answer is that people 's motives for using media do not seem to have changed much from 1945 to 1990 — whether to combat loneliness , find out what was going on or just relax . |
| 20 | Tell me , did the great galactic public ever find out what was going on on Checkley 's World ? ’ |
| 21 | However hard she tried to climb into his mind and find out what was going on in there , she never seemed to get beyond that barrier which he had laid down . |
| 22 | It took me all of 18 months to figure out what was going on , which says a lot about me . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She crept back to the door and pressed her ear against it , trying to figure out what was going on outside . |
| 25 | There was no way either of them could have worked out what was going on . |
| 26 | I was one of the first ones to be flown out and then there was a postal hold-up so I had real trouble finding out what was going on , and also trying to organise to have him brought home . |
| 27 | WE live at a time when reporters go to foreign countries where there is trouble and come back to write books in which they say that it was hard to make out what was going on . |