Example sentences of "[be] go on [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What has really been going on in this establishment ? |
| 2 | ‘ Things are going on at this school , ’ went on Dr Ali , in a whisper , ‘ of which it is difficult for a good Muslim to approve . ’ |
| 3 | It 's us and people out there , there is still people out there sighing and crying and groaning under the detestable things that are going on in this world , I 've no doubt you 've met many , but , when they say I do n't know what the world 's coming to , well if you know what 's in your magazines and then your literature and the reasoning book , all these lovely provisions , because you 've devoured it , you 've eaten it like that scroll that John was given , it was sweet to him was n't it ? |
| 4 | What else is going on in this person 's life at the moment that might make your intervention ‘ the last straw ’ ; for example , family illness , death , anniversaries of death , separation or divorce , loss of job , being accused of abuse of some sort ? |
| 5 | Then one day Malcolm said to me , what 's going on with this Nick bloke and the band ? |
| 6 | I suddenly realized recently that I 'm so far short of having any kind of representational experience that I just do n't know what 's going on in this country . |
| 7 | At the same time , d the Tories are on their knees , some people , as I said earlier , I think it 's just as relevant in this debate , seem to have lost their way and when you took , look at what they 're proposing in terms of say , the er the fifty percent , the , the er M Ps , fifty percent of the votes for er the Parliamentary leader which of course is very consistent with , right , fifty percent of the vote , you take that along with proportional representation and what I believe you 're seeing is the number of people who have given up the ghost and are preparing to restructure the Party around coalition politics , and that 's where they 're heading , and they 're heading completely in the wrong direction because we 're more in tune with what 's going on in this country , the po opinion polls are saying fifty nine percent of the people actually I think , believe that er the Labour government is possible and will be voting for a Labour government , the alternative road is to oblivion and it 's not about modernizing , the people who 're proposing this coalition politics are n't modernizers , they 're Victorian politics , that 's what they 're about , they 're about taking us back , back before we created the Party , before we learnt the lesson that we needed to represent ourselves politically , they 're going back to , let's skil see what we get out of the Liberals , the free trade Liberals , in the nineteenth century , that 's where they 're going back , that 's not about modernization , real modernization is about making sure that the Labour Party speaks for the working people up and down this country and that 's our contribution to make to that Party and therefore we should have a role in decision making and influencing the Party that enables us as an organization to express that feeling , and that understanding of what people actually want in this country , and that 's why we 're supporting the C E C proposals . |
| 8 | You know , but they should be criticised out of hand what 's going on in this country but they bloody do n't ! |
| 9 | What , what 's going on in this area ? |
| 10 | What the hell was going on with this place ? |
| 11 | It was going on through this song it 's ni , bur bur bur bur bur scratch right across the C D. |