Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] what be going on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation has thrown me a bit and I shall be talking to him again because I want to know exactly what 's going on . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd better have a good reason for all this , Lizzy , because I want to know exactly what 's going on with you . ’ |
| 3 | Yes , I mean we obviously feel that there are people who ca n't sit and listen or watch continually , and people who do dip in and out , but they still nonetheless want to know exactly what 's going on . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Help , she told him , and most of all they wanted , needed , to know exactly what was going on . |
| 7 | Falcons are interested in food to the exclusion of everything else , but an owl likes to know precisely what 's going on around it , even if it 's hungry . |
| 8 | The adult females bob and dance with excitement , standing upright , craning their heads back and forth to see just what is going on . |
| 9 | But failure to appreciate the force of this distinction can also shipwreck attempts by observers to understand religion — to read correctly what is going on as a person performs a religious ritual or speaks religious words ( see Chapter 10 where an assessment task on this is suggested ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She was very tempted to ask just what was going on . |
| 12 | C64 Starballs features some great animation , but it 's damned difficult to explain exactly what 's going on . |