Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [be] going on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing . |
| 2 | He was cool and terse , and it was clear to Lissa what was going on in his mind . |
| 3 | It 's a shame it 's going on under a microscope , spotlight or whatever but erm . |
| 4 | Well those are some of the things which are going on around the showground … |
| 5 | David and Geoffrey were perfectly welcome because they were English , but I was not welcome because I was American , so while they were staying on to see the May Day Parade , I was meant to leave and fly to Berlin where I would wait for David and Geoffrey who were going on by train through Poland . |
| 6 | You know that stuff he was going on about for special like continuous pressure and all that sort of crap . |
| 7 | In the summer of ‘ 86 there was something called the Harmonic Convergence , which was supposed to usher in the Age of Aquarius — people who were going on about it back in the 60s jumped the gun by about 20 years . |
| 8 | Nonesuch reverts to its old function , keeping the University as a whole together , telling graduates what is going on in their old alma mater , and keeping them up to date with what their contemporaries are doing . |
| 9 | You know , but they should be criticised out of hand what 's going on in this country but they bloody do n't ! |
| 10 | Of course what is going on in the Bolsover area is a matter of great concern to the hon. Gentleman , as it is to me and to the whole House . |
| 11 | And maybe I should try that Basie trio he was going on about . |
| 12 | Did nobody have any idea what was going on at the time ? |
| 13 | She had no idea what was going on in his head . |
| 14 | When I 've bought my sons their shirts I 'm going on to a good academic bookshop to get an item for myself — a book called something like Syntax and Significance : A Cognitive Approach . |
| 15 | ‘ I know , I used to think he skived off and all the time he was going on to Conway House to work . |