Example sentences of "the [noun sg] be going on " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , a marvellous thing happened whilst the trial is going on do n't forget , it 's in the dead of night and whilst the trial is going on there is Pilate 's wife at home in bed sleeping , and she has a dream , and seemed as though God spoke to her , and she saw and recognized the awful deed that her husband was about to commit , so she sent an urgent message to him that is , you 've got it in ve ve verse nineteen have nothing to do with that righteousness man for last night I suffered greatly in a dream because of him . |
| 2 | But , a marvellous thing happened whilst the trial is going on do n't forget , it 's in the dead of night and whilst the trial is going on there is Pilate 's wife at home in bed sleeping , and she has a dream , and seemed as though God spoke to her , and she saw and recognized the awful deed that her husband was about to commit , so she sent an urgent message to him that is , you 've got it in ve ve verse nineteen have nothing to do with that righteousness man for last night I suffered greatly in a dream because of him . |
| 3 | The packers , their eyes closed and their bodies tight against the mules while the firing was going on , smiled at John Russell and laughed with relief at their fear when it was over . |
| 4 | ‘ The recession is going on and on , ’ Mr Anderson said , ‘ particularly in the housing market . ’ |
| 5 | Held at the delightfully seedy SW1 Club in Victoria , much of the action was going on in the partitioned-off VIP enclosure . |
| 6 | He had a pet theory that if you went flashing your torch about on night duty , any of the burglars would see that the light was going on . |
| 7 | ‘ The farmers probably tried to get on with farming and making a living while all the fighting was going on , ’ said Hilary Wade . |
| 8 | And similarly we must not allow ourselves to look for something below that practice on which we can ground the feeling that the practice is going on in an objectively correct way . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm going to see how the search is going on . ’ |
| 10 | I shall want one of the senior staff in each department while the search is going on . |
| 11 | Now they are going to appeal , but in the meanwhile the work is going on and the bulldozers are ready and waiting on the west side of the excavations , right up against the seventeenth-century cellars which were found intact , still full of bottles and vessels . |
| 12 | But most of the work is going on actually in the auditorium where they 're stripping out all the wood er and putting in great big holes where they can put the fire exits in . |
| 13 | And the piss was going on for ages . |
| 14 | Erm often it 's the father , often the abuse is going on in connection with a whole range of processes whereby that person dominates the climate in that household . |
| 15 | The boy was going on at length with apparent fluency . |
| 16 | Yes we did , we were talking about our General Election strategy and er we 've been planning some campaigning and training workshops and so on , and I can tell you that we 've selected a Green Party candidate for Oxford west for the General Election ; his name is Mike Woodin , and the process is going on to select someone for Oxford east , so there 's certainly going to be a strong Green presence in Oxford during the General Election . |
| 17 | Mr Annesley said his senior officers were ‘ rigorously assisting ’ Mr Stevens , while Mr Brooke said the investigation was going on in a ‘ thoroughly effective ’ way . |
| 18 | He came to this charge after years in Mount Darwin , where the war is going on . |
| 19 | While the meeting in the foyer was going on , the corporation gave a clear indication that it felt under pressure . |
| 20 | The newspaper are going on and on and on about the problems that people have road and road . |
| 21 | If , for example , a horseman was in the field and the ploughing was going on extremely well , his stetches coming out neatly , with dead-straight furrows and a level ‘ top ’ , his mate sometimes called out in recognition of his prowess : |
| 22 | I wanted to know what the heck was going on between us ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ What the devil 's going on here ? ’ the voice demanded . |
| 24 | What the devil was going on ? |
| 25 | All the happening was going on for other people miles away . |
| 26 | It was already past midnight when they got to see Dustin , who was playing pool by himself , while a huge party for the cast was going on in another suite . |
| 27 | ‘ And , having known him two months , ’ the prosecution was going on , ‘ you found out nothing about his background ? ’ |
| 28 | How long has the operation been going on ? |
| 29 | ‘ When did you first find out the affair was going on ? ’ the superintendent asked . |
| 30 | ‘ So I 'm taken back down and I 'm wondering what the hell 's going on . |