Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [adv] what [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is attempting to find out what is causing the mix , indicating it does not have its fingers on the distribution pulse because of its two-tiered channel . |
| 2 | But even so , why had he not come running to find out what was happening ? |
| 3 | The telephone lines of companies such as Thew Engineering , when the share price was going down , have been constantly busy with shareholders trying to find out what 's going on . |
| 4 | ‘ One of the worst things of all , ’ Stuart Bell had said , ‘ is trying to find out what 's going on . |
| 5 | Although surely it was his business , was n't it , trying to get Celia well , trying to find out what was causing , as Adams referred to it , her emotional and mental block ? |
| 6 | Unfortunately , I said the longer he chose to ignore me and others who were trying to find out what was making him so unhappy , the more chance there was that decisions about his future might be made regardless of his willingness to discuss his situation . |
| 7 | It is difficult for it to distinguish between one sort of pain and another , when trying to work out what is going wrong . |
| 8 | I then spent hours trying to work out what was happening . |
| 9 | Julius 's dark eyes bored into her , as if trying to work out what was going on . |
| 10 | Once this is achieved , she suggests , the dichotomy between realism and relativism becomes irrelevant ; both will proceed in the same way in trying to sort out what is going on and what to do . |
| 11 | They 're trying to figure out what 's going on , what they 're going to grow into . |
| 12 | She crept back to the door and pressed her ear against it , trying to figure out what was going on outside . |