Example sentences of "and [verb] what be going on " in BNC.

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1 Rain ousted Zak Smythe from her chair and asked what was going on .
2 When the fiddler leading the dancing stopped playing and asked what was going on , he was ordered to carry on , as though nothing was happening .
3 So I always try to do that but I , I , again I find that it 's very erm very tiring and it 's very , gets very can get very involved with it , so I would like us , I 'd like you to think of the idea of a social secretary to help with the raffles and organizing what 's going on at the meetings please .
4 The Governors control very much of the finances of the school and supervise what is going on .
5 ‘ I quite enjoy watching all the people go by , ’ says Howard , ‘ and wondering what 's going on inside their heads . ’
6 He says that , ‘ DTX-2 , like its biogenetic relatives acts as an ‘ on-off ’ switch for certain phosphatase enzymes and could open a door in the cell for us to look inside and see what is going on ’ .
7 The things you have to do make it progressively more and more difficult for you to really get around and see what 's going on in your factories .
8 I 'll just nip out and see what 's going on .
9 Do you want to go and see what 's going on in the sitting room ?
10 So I decided to follow along and see what was going on . ’
11 Riven stood on tiptoe to try and see what was going on .
12 There are possibilities for encouraging pupils to listen to their own reading on tape , and to discuss what is going on , with the aims of helping them toward cognitive clarity and the expression of their feelings about the text .
13 ‘ It 's rude to try and understand what 's going on when it must be obvious that it 's none of your business . ’
14 Also , it is vital from the point of view of ethics that you can hear and understand what is going on .
15 Once these kinds of needs are satisfied , the theory suggests that individual motivations will be shaped by behaviour that is associated with : The need to gain self-esteem in the eyes of other people , for instance through the possession of prestigious objects , taking expensive holidays , making donations to charity , etc. * the need to know and understand what is going on around them .
16 And look what 's going on . ’
17 When I came off , I felt I needed to sort of keep in touch , sort of speaking to people that know what 's going on and know what 's going on in ex-users ' heads , y'know .
18 I know one or two of them try and work it on the phone … but I like to go out and have a look and know what 's going on . ’
19 And to be interested you 've got to attend your branch meetings and know what 's going on .
20 And tell you , and hear what is going on .
21 I just kept my mouth shut and watched what was going on .
22 Therapist : ‘ What we will do in this first session is an assessment of exactly what 's going on : first we will look at the problems at the moment ; second we will look at background factors such as your family and personal history ; and third we will try to pull it all together and formulate what is going on , and then decide on what the best course of action is .
23 Patrons who pay ten pounds to see and hear what is going on deserved a better service than they got .
24 He recalls once telling a group of students to clear their minds and observe what was going on in the room .
25 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 .
26 Before you really get down to doing anything , you 've got to look at the problem , and , and really sort of try and analyse what is going on , and what bit of the problem are you going to work on .
27 Step back from problems and disruption and analyse what 's going on .
28 It taxes the minds of determined embryologists to try and visualize what is going on .
29 Seething with indignation and fury , she told herself that this was the best way to catch Adam off guard and discover what was going on .
30 I finally got in touch with the distributor and explained what was going on .
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