Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] what 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 And so condoned what was going on .
3 How long has what been going on ?
4 The sound of high-pitched wailing from the woods indicated that the village women were being held there , out of sight but close enough to hear what was going on .
5 If they could have only known what 's going on in my head .
6 She spoke Spanish a little , enough to understand what was going on , although at her interview she had been told that all her patients would be British .
7 Anyone who joins a bucket shop swiftly enough grasps what 's going on , even if he 's been lied to .
8 ‘ I 'd like a word with the rest of your people , if only to explain what 's going on .
9 Electronics ) or for pessimistic reasons ( like Weymouth Clinic , Hilton Mining ) , has led to investors ringing Harvard constantly to ask what 's going on .
10 If you 'd just explain what was going on .
11 I just popped in just to see what was going on .
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 This is known as cataphora , and it is a favourite opening device of authors who begin stories and novels with an unidentified he or she , both enticing us to look further , and plunging us into the middle of a situation as though we already knew what was going on .
14 Just see what 's going on .
15 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 .
16 So you can still understand what 's going on with these .
17 The petticoat Mafia at the top of the organisation always knew what was going on , often before the top executives themselves .
18 He would shuffle around in his seat and then be highly critical , but he always knew what was going on .
19 I was absolutely stunned , I hardly knew what was going on .
20 Most people in America and Western Europe still see what is going on there — no farther away from this summer 's holidaymakers in Venice or Tyrol than Lyons is from Paris , or York from London — as a largely irrelevant struggle in an obscure corner of the world .
21 Everyone has access to the whole system , both to see what 's going on and to contribute to change through Corrective Action and writing new procedures and instructions .
22 Carefully examine what 's going on .
23 Ace glanced back and saw him , instantly realizing what was going on .
24 But I do n't really know what is going on .
25 I do n't really know what 's going on , but everyone 's arguing about summat .
26 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
27 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 .
28 I did n't really know what was going on after I 'd had the baby .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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