Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [Wh det] be going on " in BNC.

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1 It 's inconceivable that Andrew did n't eventually know what was going on .
2 If you 'd just explain what was going on .
3 They also do not know what is going on or what to do next .
4 the superior will not ‘ panic , because he does not know what is going on .
5 They simply did not know what was going on .
6 Yet in one the father did not know what was going on , and was robbed of all dignity .
7 At the time , however , he believed that Casey truly did not know what was going on .
8 That could only have happened if the Left did not know what was going on , and it could only have not known what was going on if it was being tricked by one of its own .
9 There would be abut 20 people in and they would not know what was going on , ’ says Solowka .
10 The Government can not say , as an excuse , that they did not know what was going on and how it could escalate .
11 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 ) .
12 But at Toshiba we do n't just monitor what 's going on inside you ; we also keep a watch on what 's going on around you .
13 As participants , we often do not understand what is going on in the interchange , so caught up are we with our own agendas .
14 Yet we do not understand what is going on .
15 Now I could not hear what was going on and I was quite sure nobody could hit a ball , or whatever they use in baseball , away out where I was standing .
16 However , in the case of particles emitted from a black hole , the fact that one can not observe what is going on inside the black hole means that one can definitely predict neither the positions nor the velocities of the emitted particles .
17 I sometimes think that the hon. Gentleman is so busy thinking up his contorted questions that he does not observe what is going on in the House at other times .
18 They do not realise what is going on in their own backyard .
19 Er we did n't always know what was going on but erm , we did catch the planes when they took off in the morning and we watched them come home in the afternoons and we got some ideas sometimes when things had n't gone quite right and I 'm sure we did share with you in your grief .
20 So you can still understand what 's going on with these .
21 But I do n't really know what is going on .
22 I do n't really know what 's going on , but everyone 's arguing about summat .
23 Have you checked with erm , oh I can check if you want , with er , you see the problem is they do n't visit do n't really know what 's going on , it 's basically
24 He set up on his own because the company he worked for , Top Man , did n't really know what was going on , on a street level .
25 I did n't really know what was going on after I 'd had the baby .
26 The psychological insights which he might once have applied were no longer applicable ; thus , like most people , like all of us would in a similar circumstance , the degree to which he could realistically perceive what was going on within his body and what was becoming of him came and went .
27 Once you abandoned the theorist 's armchair and his gloomy study and actually got out there among living tribesmen , then and only then could you really understand what was going on .
28 And the drummer takes everything personally , he 's very er , but takes like fits and ca n't really see what 's going on .
29 The Steve Martin character declares that ‘ my movies reflect what 's going on ; they do n't make what 's going on . ’
30 Writers do n't know what is going on .
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