Example sentences of "what go [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ’ We ca n't attend their committee meetings which is where all the real decisions are made , and we ca n't get information about what goes on in a committee meeting .
2 I think especially in the , in the hotel project it 's useful to have a little bar chart saying this is what goes on in a bathroom .
3 Well that does n't show any er expertise in what goes on in a solicitor 's office at all .
4 Never know what goes on in a nutter 's mind .
5 The observer 's task is then to observe what goes on in a classroom and , every three seconds , to tick the category that best describes what has been happening during that period .
6 The local nicks at Penzance and St Ives must have some idea what goes on in a set-up like that on their doorsteps . ’
7 In the end this is a debate not about bolting versus traditional climbing , it 's a debate about morality — about what goes on inside a climber 's head when he look s at his ( or her ) environment .
8 Or , though the process or institution may be , so to speak , on the doorstep , its accessibility may be limited : what goes on inside a defence research establishment or a Masonic Lodge are obvious examples .
9 Some learn in this way for the first time about what goes on inside a university .
10 THE SPECTATOR , and even the onfield adversary , can little suspect what goes on inside a cricketer 's head .
11 I 've always thought babies have a pretty rotten life , completely under the control of people who do n't have any idea of what goes on inside a baby 's mind — ’
12 One of the problems was in measuring what went on in a plasma .
13 He could no more understand what went on in a twenty-year-old 's head than fly to the moon .
14 This was not wildly different , I suppose , to what went on in a book I was reading , Edmund Gosse 's Father and Son , in which the father would pray before any crucial decision and await God 's direction .
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