Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] what be going on " in BNC.

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1 So , as soon as the misbehaviour begins , turn away or walk away from your child ; pretend not to see or hear what is going on ; say nothing and try not to show any expression at all ; resist getting into any debate , argument or discussion with your child while he or she is misbehaving .
2 On the Dipper , if you had your eyes shut and your ears plugged up — so you could n't see or hear what was going on — and you just thought about how heavy or light you felt , and what was happening to your tummy — you would n't know for sure what was happening .
3 He says that , ‘ DTX-2 , like its biogenetic relatives acts as an ‘ on-off ’ switch for certain phosphatase enzymes and could open a door in the cell for us to look inside and see what is going on ’ .
4 The things you have to do make it progressively more and more difficult for you to really get around and see what 's going on in your factories .
5 I 'll just nip out and see what 's going on .
6 Do you want to go and see what 's going on in the sitting room ?
7 So I decided to follow along and see what was going on . ’
8 Riven stood on tiptoe to try and see what was going on .
9 ‘ It 's rude to try and understand what 's going on when it must be obvious that it 's none of your business . ’
10 Also , it is vital from the point of view of ethics that you can hear and understand what is going on .
11 Once these kinds of needs are satisfied , the theory suggests that individual motivations will be shaped by behaviour that is associated with : The need to gain self-esteem in the eyes of other people , for instance through the possession of prestigious objects , taking expensive holidays , making donations to charity , etc. * the need to know and understand what is going on around them .
12 Patrons who pay ten pounds to see and hear what is going on deserved a better service than they got .
13 It taxes the minds of determined embryologists to try and visualize what is going on .
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