Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] be going on " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's already provided the couple with a tape of tribal fertility dances to ‘ release endorphins in the pelvic region ’ and before long she 's going on about the healing properties of dolphins . |
| 2 | Yeah , and I said he said something about going to the pictures so he 's going on about it . |
| 3 | Will be passed on , but in this instance they all need to be shown how to work it , yes , mhm , so that concerned me a little bit , apparently because they were holding the mike right up to their mouth and it was distorting terribly what 's going on up there |
| 4 | So what 's going on with MCA , then ? |
| 5 | Our top sportsman , Linford Christie , is black so what 's going on ? ’ |
| 6 | Aye well So what 's going on in here ? |
| 7 | So what is going on ? |
| 8 | So what is going on in illness ? |
| 9 | So what is going on in the world of higher education today ? |
| 10 | So what is going on ? |
| 11 | So what is going on at the moment that is affecting the management and organisation of our electronic records in local government ? |
| 12 | Other people were coming up with answers , so what was going on ? |
| 13 | So what was going on in the way of entertainments and things like that when you came to ? |
| 14 | The eyes of some fish enable them to see not only what is going on in the water around them but in the air above the surface . |
| 15 | And keep it so it 's just ticking over , so that on average you 're absorbing two of these neutrons , say and just one is going on to st start another one , and you just you know ju It 's very fine control on the fuel rods . |
| 16 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 17 | I mean that 's a , a thing that er I remember seeing a TV documentary and there was this bloke , I du n no if he was from the Terence Higgins Trust , I do n't think so , but erm er anyway he was going on about this , this very thing that there 's often the homophobic imagination er has this sort of slippage between you know , consenting adult activity and if you 're gay , if you 're homosexual then this probably means that you 're also interested in seducing children , you 're also interested in sado-masochistic activity er you 're also interested in , you know , a whole variety of other , you know , things which |
| 18 | because already it 's going on , you can see that . |
| 19 | ‘ Look , Inspector , just what 's going on ? |
| 20 | ‘ I wish someone would tell me just what 's going on . ’ |
| 21 | It is understandable if we consider the wide diversity of marine invertebrates how difficult it can be to read from their behaviour just what is going on . |
| 22 | When you send a fax , a dialogue box pops up telling you in plain English just what is going on , while an animated fax machine , complete with a document feeding through it , shows you how far things have got . |
| 23 | The adult females bob and dance with excitement , standing upright , craning their heads back and forth to see just what is going on . |
| 24 | ‘ Would someone care to tell me just what is going on ? ’ |
| 25 | In general , it can often be difficult for us to be sure just what is going on in supposed examples of communication . |
| 26 | Such an insider 's account will therefore hopefully achieve the ‘ finer grain and detail ’ MacDonald ( 1987 ) demanded of postmodern ‘ anthropology at home ’ , while ‘ practical mastery ’ of the ethnographic field should reduce the problems faced by McCabe and Sutcliffe ( 1978 ) , who set out to pursue participant observation on the police and found that ‘ it would be necessary for anyone wishing to fully understand the process of policing to take into account the difficulties in gaining access and an understanding of just what was going on ’ . |
| 27 | Oh yes , he had done everything possible to find out just what was going on . |
| 28 | It was too soon for the operation to be taken away from Cardiff before he found out just what was going on in this hellish office block . |
| 29 | She was very tempted to ask just what was going on . |
| 30 | However , this is clearly not what is going on in anorexia nervosa , although I do believe that emptiness is being used as a metaphor . |