Example sentences of "[is] going [adv prt] around " 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 | If the treatment sessions take place in a large gymnasium , for instance , the physiotherapist will screen off a section of the space for greater privacy , and so that the patient is not distracted by seeing what is going on around him . |
| 3 | This point concerns slaughter , which has been mentioned already ; however , I would just mention that as far as religious slaughter is concerned , recent research makes it absolutely clear that animals which are killed by cutting their throats can go for between 15 and 120 seconds able to detect what is going on around them . |
| 4 | Rather , we absorb what is going on around us , especially from those who are most intimately involved with us . |
| 5 | I will become so deeply interested in whatever I am doing … in whatever is going on around me … my mind will become completely distracted away from myself . |
| 6 | It is , obviously , deeper than the light trance , but not so deep that the patient will not be aware of what is going on around him . |
| 7 | Some will actually feel that they are inside the body of the former self , and that everything is going on around them just as it does in ordinary life . |
| 8 | As the days go by open your mind to what is going on around you — what are other people 's goals ? |
| 9 | She 's very much aware of what is going on around her , even though she 's working on her latest project . |
| 10 | ‘ Wary ’ means being aware of what is going on around you ; being paranoid is something entirely different . |
| 11 | You can be aware of what is going on around you and yet treat everyone you meet in a polite , friendly and respectful way . |
| 12 | There 's no need to be paranoid but sometimes it does take a conscious effort to be aware of what is going on around you . |
| 13 | No matter who is following , you will only notice him if you are alert and aware of what is going on around you . |
| 14 | Jill Desborough 's figures appear to be looking with disdain at what is going on around them as they prepare to walk off the set . |
| 15 | ‘ Something funny is going on around here , ’ he said . |
| 16 | On the other hand , while it is impossible to keep values out of research , the more you let your own values and feelings ‘ take over ’ , the more you will write about your own values and reactions , and the less you will see of what is going on around you . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The other is that we employ knowledge — of the world , of the speaker , of social convention , of what is going on around us as we read or listen — in order to make sense of the language we are encountering . |
| 19 | Once these kinds of needs are satisfied , the theory suggests that individual motivations will be shaped by behaviour that is associated with : The need to gain self-esteem in the eyes of other people , for instance through the possession of prestigious objects , taking expensive holidays , making donations to charity , etc. * the need to know and understand what is going on around them . |
| 20 | But it can hardly be argued that either carbonate or coal measure deposition is going on around the world today in anything like the way it has in the past . |
| 21 | Our surveys show employees are more and more satisfied with the communications they receive from their companies and they believe they understand more now about what is going on around them . |
| 22 | We shall now see that in order to account for changes in the modern world this evolutionary background of the ego and superego is by no means irrelevant ; on the contrary , we must take it very seriously if we are to be able to understand what is going on around us . |
| 23 | ‘ The clubs will bring more awareness of what is going on around them . |
| 24 | Neither of the girls understand fully what is going on around them and in Scout 's case , her incomprehension is sometimes comical , for instance , Jem grasps long before she does that it is Boo Radley who was putting the gifts in the tree as a friendly gesture from him to them and he lets Scout continue to wonder long after the reader has also guessed it was Boo Radley . |
| 25 | Ca n't see what 's going on around her . |
| 26 | ‘ I notice details about what 's going on around me , ’ he said in defence of his drinking . |
| 27 | But at Toshiba we do n't just monitor what 's going on inside you ; we also keep a watch on what 's going on around you . |
| 28 | If a bird has food , it 's much more concerned with what 's going on around it , because it 's afraid that another predator might steal it . |
| 29 | Falcons are interested in food to the exclusion of everything else , but an owl likes to know precisely what 's going on around it , even if it 's hungry . |
| 30 | To make her see what 's going on around her . |