Example sentences of "[v-ing] what be going on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , unfortunately this positive role so often gets lost in the way we have described earlier , with people just not understanding what is going on around them at a time when it could provide them with so much support . |
| 2 | Erm and he 's imagining what 's going on in it . |
| 3 | ‘ Society in its silence is condoning what is going on . ’ |
| 4 | Some have their own lights for practising and stand out in their gardens to practise with an empty gun , not with shells otherwise half the police force in the district would come around wondering what is going on . |
| 5 | The only evidence from that dream is the feeling of childhood — all childhoods , probably : the puzzlement of the child watching from the pavement , wondering what 's going on , what they , the adults are up to , what they want from you , and what they expect you to do . |
| 6 | ‘ I quite enjoy watching all the people go by , ’ says Howard , ‘ and wondering what 's going on inside their heads . ’ |
| 7 | She 's sitting there wondering what 's going on . |
| 8 | Sally stared at the curtains wondering what was going on behind them . |
| 9 | The girl was staring up at the two of us , wondering what was going on . |
| 10 | As one day followed another the garrison could not help wondering what was going on behind the Collector 's closed door . |
| 11 | Amsterdam looked over the rim of his coffee cup , wondering what was going on inside the head of his august relation . |
| 12 | Patrick looked wide-eyed at Collins , wondering what was going on , by the big man smiled genially and nodded . |
| 13 | He frowned , wondering what was going on . |
| 14 | Behind him the boy looked out , wide-eyed , wondering what was going on . |
| 15 | I stared at him , wondering what was going on in that complex mind of his , what his real motive was in pushing north by car when we could have had a good night 's sleep and flown up in daylight . |
| 16 | ‘ So I see , ’ Alyssia replied in a stiff voice , wondering what was going on in Piers 's head at this masquerade . |
| 17 | In the semi-darkness she studied his profile , letting her gaze wander over the hard-boned features , absorbing the line of his jaw , wondering what was going on inside his head . |
| 18 | The word ‘ depression ’ is used in a non-clinical sense , and maybe sadness is a better way of describing what is going on . |
| 19 | The imperfections. of these methods of plasma diagnostics — the term used to describe the art of measuring what is going on in a plasma — gave rise to persistent difficulties and ambiguities until the late 1960s , when lasers had arrived on the scene . |
| 20 | Check the er , but you 've got to have some way , I believe , of measuring what 's going on . |
| 21 | Anyone who imagines that a British Chancellor of the Exchequer could , wholly independently , determine interest rates here without considering what was going on in a Europe with a single currency , with all the other member countries belonging to it , is totally wrong . |
| 22 | I think and just tell us what they 're doing what 's going on with it . |
| 23 | Everybody seems to know everybody else and nobody can do anything without someone knowing what is going on . |
| 24 | She has a passion for knowing what is going on and will be extremely cross if she is n't told . ’ |
| 25 | It has to do with not knowing what is going on . |
| 26 | It has to do with not knowing what is going on |
| 27 | knowing what 's going on . |
| 28 | The first Apache , not even knowing what was going on , raised his glass . |
| 29 | I was still in pain and still in shock and not really knowing what was going on . |
| 30 | 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 . |