Example sentences of "[was/were] go on [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , when we were going on about the Universe and all the galaxies and the Big Bang , we talked about gravity forces — between the galaxies — trying to pull them together . |
| 2 | Yeah , I got the impression when the TV commentators were going on about the Turks being in Europe for the last 10 years they were just looking for some excuse to explain th scum 's ineptitude . |
| 3 | By January 1928 the preparatory negotiations were going on between the TUC and the Confederation of Employers Organizations and the Federation of British Industries , the two main employers ' organisations . |
| 4 | Now it seems to me with erm with great respect from the view of the taxing officer , that er it 's quite clear that er both parties were holding han were holding their hands in relation to a question of taxation because negotiations were going on between the parties and indeed the defendants were being requested er not to proceed with taxation but to see if they could obtain an overall assessment and the point was met to the defendants barrister , telling quite frankly there would n't be much advantage in the defendants pushing on with erm taxation because they 'd only , they would have to look to his interest in the property to get payment , it seems to me in those circumstances that it can not be said that erm the plaintiffs were in any way acting improperly and not seeking to have the costs taxed during the period while the negotiations were being carried on er because effectively and |
| 5 | Mr Haydn Cook , chief executive of the Friarage , said negotiations were going on with the Scorton hospital about its contract for the forthcoming year . |
| 6 | I think from that report there was a there was a requirement or request that perhaps the theatre should actually have a public meeting to talk about which way the theatre was going what things were going on at the theatre and that 's what the meeting is for this evening . |
| 7 | The whole balance of the bird population altered where these changes were going on in the landscape . |
| 8 | ‘ Mouse ’ was to go on to a succession of schools — at all of which he was unhappy — and to Oxford , where he was run over by a train under circumstances which strongly suggested suicide . |
| 9 | This was going on for a couple of days , so I was getting worried and I took him to the prison doctor and he says , ‘ It might be with you breastfeeding , try him on the bottle . ’ |
| 10 | Therefore I did n't know what was going on to the point where I carried on working in a prefabricated hut hard by the administration block during a very successful students ' occupation in summer 1976 . |
| 11 | The same person the same person all I 'm saying the reason that the meeting was convened this evening and the reason that Paul wants the meeting this evening was to get the views from the public about what they felt was going on at the playhouse and what they would like to see that is n't taken place I think that was the thing behind the meeting and that 's what we 'd like to see right okay . . . |
| 12 | Should he ask him what was going on at the top of the Ministry and why they were resurrecting the Zoser case ? |
| 13 | Work at Liss pond , for instance , was going on at the moment to cut back overhanging trees which were starving the water of oxygen . |
| 14 | It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing . |
| 15 | To omit this background is rather like accusing the RAF of bombing innocent women and children in Berlin without mentioning that world war two was going on at the time . |
| 16 | ‘ They also expressed a lack of knowledge about what was going on at the time , and they blamed their mothers for that . |
| 17 | Did nobody have any idea what was going on at the time ? |
| 18 | Aye well that 's it er I mean there was no , as I said there was no alarms for anybody else or anybody who was n't there really would n't have a much of an idea to how drastic it was and what was going on at the time . |
| 19 | Isabel was going on about the boots . |
| 20 | so , and then he was going on about the work he 's doing on the |
| 21 | She was going on about the grass they 've left on the |
| 22 | I was watching the Scum Derby on Sky this weekend , and managed to catch some of the phone-in afterwards , where someone was going on about an Autobiography written by the froggy himself . |
| 23 | More importantly , it reflects his laconic style , and what was going on under the surface : |
| 24 | Obviously , she thought sourly , checking to make sure that no hanky-panky was going on under the table between Piers and her , or else he was still so infatuated that he could n't bear not to look at her for too long . |
| 25 | I lost track of what was going on outside the alley until the officer tapped her shoulder with his revolver and waved it in my face . |
| 26 | Next we went to see what the hell was going on in a couple of places further down the block . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | So what was going on in the way of entertainments and things like that when you came to ? |
| 29 | What , what I would always hope though , is that they might go for some help , because even if they decide to separate , and er get support while they 're doing so , they may be able to understand what was going on in the relationship , what they were looking for in each other . |
| 30 | This fight was going on in the middle of the road . |