Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be going on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |
| 2 | Occasionally I was lucid enough to remember that I must never write about what was going on , or what I thought was going on . |
| 3 | Well , I think it erm , very , I mean I think as you said Chairman , if erm , there 's a clear majority for one party it 'll unblock a whole lot of delay and decision making which I think is going on and I think that that should be helpful . |
| 4 | also some of the things that I 've been going on with , doing this one with three , and I do n't know if it , they 'll stay in the can long enough for that . |
| 5 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
| 6 | Eyes turned to boarded up windows and rubbish strewn in gardens and the depressing picture moved the prince to say : ‘ This is why I have been going on for so long about architecture in the environment . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Just what do you think is going on ? ’ |
| 8 | What do you think is going on in the war Jossom ? |
| 9 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 10 | But we know are going on to double shift on Monday |
| 11 | We 've been going on like that for six to eight weeks now . |
| 12 | Right , I think we 've been going on long enough and I think you 've been sitting there long enough , ha |
| 13 | We 've been going on like this for months . |
| 14 | Thomas is emphasising that the social behaviour of human beings is a product of what they decide is going on around them , of what they take the behaviour of others to mean . |
| 15 | The same person the same person all I 'm saying the reason that the meeting was convened this evening and the reason that Paul wants the meeting this evening was to get the views from the public about what they felt was going on at the playhouse and what they would like to see that is n't taken place I think that was the thing behind the meeting and that 's what we 'd like to see right okay . . . |
| 16 | I think that people live in such a world of fantasy around what they think is going on and kidding themselves that they have some ‘ control ’ , that a kind of chink in the armour like that is terrifying . |
| 17 | In fact ever since the pair of them started going out together they 've been going on about having to find poor old Jenny a new man . |
| 18 | What I 'd like you to do , is to try and put into words , what the main problems are at the moment , when they occur , where they occur , and how long they 've been going on for ’ . |
| 19 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 20 | Today 's decline in the fertility rate does not have as superstitious , or short-lived , a cause : it has been going on steadily since 1970 . |
| 21 | ( It has been going on successfuly with Irish Rail and the Dublin Dart for years ) . |
| 22 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 24 | ‘ He did n't like to admit he 'd got hooked — not after the way he 'd been going on . |
| 25 | She would phone the police and they would go out of their way to search her garden and reassure her of their vigilance , but it had been going on for years . |
| 26 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 27 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 28 | He was a small boy of six who lived just around the corner from her , and for days he had been going on about this great talking parrot his father had given him . |
| 29 | All right , O.K. , he had been going on long enough on these lines . |
| 30 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |