Example sentences of "what [vb past] on in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ All I do know is that when we were on the way here he was asking me a great many questions about what went on in the village . |
2 | It 's the officers working now who are the only ones who can really tell you what went on in the past . |
3 | If Jolly Sensible was a restaurant , everyone would be speculating about what went on in the basement . |
4 | Jolly Sensible was a restaurant , everyone would be speculating about what went on in the basement . |
5 | Still , it would be hard to deny that in , say , 1875 what went on in the university of Kazan and Kiev was more significant than what went on in Yale and Princeton . |
6 | My hon. Friend draws attention to the fact that there is considerable maladministration among Labour councils , as witness the discovery of what went on in the council of Brent when it was under Labour control . |
7 | But Steven had a b-i-g problem , because he had spent his whole life in Never Never , a land not best known for its grasp of real life , and his idea of what went on in the world outside was limited to the hazy notions he had picked up … from the movies . |
8 | ‘ They were concerned I would do something gruesome or speak critically about what went on in the ward . ’ |
9 | No , Maidstone had been right all along : Sandison knew nothing about what went on in the city . |