Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] what was going on " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Help , she told him , and most of all they wanted , needed , to know exactly what was going on . |
| 4 | Jim Doel , the chief executive , said he had failed to find out what was going on . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After a short while we could n't stand it any longer ; we had to find out what was going on . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Wide Awake could n't even be bothered to find out what was going on before penning their vitriolic little missive . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So we used to sit and listen and try to work out what was going on , which gave the Lone Ranger even more mystery . |
| 12 | It took me a moment to work out what was going on . |
| 13 | It took him a moment to work out what was going on . |
| 14 | Julius 's dark eyes bored into her , as if trying to work out what was going on . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | It took me all of 18 months to figure out what was going on , which says a lot about me . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She crept back to the door and pressed her ear against it , trying to figure out what was going on outside . |
| 19 | Sandison could not be sure how much Maidstone had had to drink that day — it was still a few minutes before noon — but he knew that he was sober enough to understand fully what was going on . |
| 20 | She was very tempted to ask just what was going on . |
| 21 | 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 . |