Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] what [is] going on " in BNC.

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1 Yet , unfortunately this positive role so often gets lost in the way we have described earlier , with people just not understanding what is going on around them at a time when it could provide them with so much support .
2 They also do not know what is going on or what to do next .
3 the superior will not ‘ panic , because he does not know what is going on .
4 As participants , we often do not understand what is going on in the interchange , so caught up are we with our own agendas .
5 Yet we do not understand what is going on .
6 It has to do with not knowing what is going on .
7 It has to do with not knowing what is going on
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 They do not realise what is going on in their own backyard .
11 And mummy 's smiling in at him from the outside , look she 's hanging the washing out pretending not to notice what 's going on .
12 The Steve Martin character declares that ‘ my movies reflect what 's going on ; they do n't make what 's going on . ’
13 Writers do n't know what is going on .
14 I do n't know what is going on . ’
15 So I do n't know what is going on !
16 Marie 's face is real white and she 's still sort of staring like she do n't know what 's going on .
17 And you begin to say things that do n't make any sense to people who do n't know what 's going on between you , but you know that the other person , to whom what you 've said is really addressed will know what you mean , even though he may not actually be there .
18 ‘ I do n't know what 's going on . ’
19 I thought , ‘ It 's the Nineties and a lot of people just do n't know what 's going on . ’
20 It 's so frightening , I 'm scared and I 'm not going back there — I just do n't know what 's going on . ’
21 Monika said at her home in Bedford last night : ‘ I do n't know what 's going on .
22 We do n't know what 's going on out there .
23 I suddenly realized recently that I 'm so far short of having any kind of representational experience that I just do n't know what 's going on in this country .
24 and then go back over stuff that you 've done earlier that you have n't been able to understand where you 've felt , Ooh I do n't know what 's going on here .
25 If you if you do n't understand things it gets very hard to like them cos you d just do n't know what 's going on do you ?
26 Thomas paused , as if having second thoughts , then said , ‘ I do n't know what the fuck you 're doing down there , I do n't know what 's going on , and I do n't really know why I 'm offering this , but I could probably get you a gun , if you 'd feel — I do n't know — safer , or whatever . ’
27 GUIL : But we do n't know what 's going on , or what to do with ourselves .
28 Nobody can pretend for a minute that they do n't know what 's going on .
29 ‘ Please , ’ said Barbara , now sounding weary and in shock : ‘ I do n't know what 's going on .
30 ‘ I do n't know what 's going on , ’ said Scarlet .
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