Example sentences of "be [verb] on in [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 BELVILLE : Let me see how you are come on in your writing .
2 What had been going on in her cabin could only have led to one thing , and that was something that must never happen again .
3 Listen , too much has been going on in my head of late .
4 ‘ Has something been going on in my kitchen ?
5 Can anyone give me a brief update on what exactly has been going on in my absence , i.e. who is being sold and why ?
6 He was uneasy about what had been going on in his absence , which had lasted for some months .
7 She was going her own sweet way , totally unconcerned about what might be going on in her wake .
8 But one of the most persistent and pernicious myths we 've inherited from Descartes is that mentality is essentially conscious , so that anything we ca n't introspect ca n't really be going on in our mind .
9 Nonetheless every partner will have a right to know what is being carried on in his firm 's name and for which he is ultimately answerable .
10 I was n't allowing myself to think too much , but below the conscious level all kinds of adjustments were going on in my head .
11 We lost one rehearsal because Rossini 's Barbiere had been cancelled and Lohengrin was being put on in its place .
12 The reasons for this appear to be ( a ) what the students perceive as cashable cheques in the job market and ( b ) a genuine intellectual concern to understand what is going on in their society .
13 ‘ The fire at Windsor was an allegory of what is going on in their lineage , in their family .
14 The role of the regionals is not only to report national and international news if they are a daily , but to reflect what is going on in their area .
15 They will be asked to relate their seminar work to what is going on in their practice schools .
16 Venetian blinds of furrows ripple down his forehead as his every external body activities mirror all that is going on in his head .
17 Thank you very much Mr President and as you 've been friendly enough to invite me and given me such a friendly welcome , I , I thought I ought to risk speaking to you as candidly as I can about what is going on in our country and our communities at the moment and whether by the end of the thing I continue your friend is another matter .
18 We 've managed to avoid the use of overtime we have tried our best to ensure a decent supply of social housing but always against the odds , always against the tide of what is going on in our economy and in the housing situa in the housing market .
19 So , too , does wearing sunglasses as this is a positive gesture to prevent the interviewer from seeing your eyes and guessing what is going on in your mind .
20 Please contact your nearest regional office to find out what is going on in your area .
21 A worrying thing at the moment is as I said we 're in close contact with is that the Malaysian Government is sending representatives over to visit the European Community Ministers in May , to try and say that there 's absolutely nothing wrong with what 's going on in their country with the logging , and they 're saying that people like Friends of the Earth are calling for a ban on timber , not because they care about sustained yield , but because we want to be able to sell our own wood , and this is to depress their trade .
22 The danger of approaching whole group work by letting children first improvise in small groups and then presenting them with an issue which you hope will give them a focus is that they remain more interested in what 's going on in their group than in the supposedly unifying issue : " Why should I be interested in the corner shop being knocked down when I never use it , and anyway we 've just been burgled ? ! "
23 or you ca n't have a lunch break , but she did n't , she just automatically assumes that everybody knows what 's going on in her head be that everybody else should know as well , yeah anyway I 've got to go Matt 's shouting , he 's obviously having problems plumbing the dishwasher , god his little cotton socks , so we 'll see you later , alright then , see you later on ta ta .
24 I ca n't tell you what 's going on in my head .
25 In that sense , the shots are more about what 's going on in my head than in theirs . ’
26 If they could have only known what 's going on in my head .
27 ‘ Are you going to stop sitting there like some goddammed statue and fill me in on what 's going on in your head ? ’
28 ‘ I do n't know what 's going on in your head , but I 'm telling you now , if you have any ideas in that direction , you 're on a loser . ’
29 you , so being aware what 's going on in your field nationally
30 These are the people who do n't consider what 's going on in your mind , merely what goes on your feet ( the London club Kazoo turns people away if they happen to be wearing Wallabees ) .
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