Example sentences of "was go [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what was going on in the way of entertainments and things like that when you came to ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This fight was going on in the middle of the road . |
| 4 | Émile Chaillot told me that he had telephoned the writer and spoken to him for a good seven minutes about what was going on in the music world . |
| 5 | Yet what was going on in the exchequer and treasury was only symptomatic of changes throughout government , from chancery to wardrobe and chamber , from the great seal to the privy seal . |
| 6 | Evidence that oathing was going on in the reserve was at first dismissed with the claim that the Masai involved were ‘ half-and-halfs ’ , that is , the offspring of a Masai father and a Kikuyu mother : the loyalty of the ‘ pure Masai ’ was thought to be beyond question . |
| 7 | He walked around watching the instructors putting the men through their paces and , as on his last visit , seemed to take a particular interest in what was going on in the boxing ring . |
| 8 | ‘ During the campaign I never watched telly or saw my family and I never really knew what was going on in the election , ’ said his brother Andrew , 26 . |
| 9 | The task of the Prime Minister was unremitting , for he was on duty every minute of the day and night and must know all that was going on in the Government . |
| 10 | It may help us to understand some of the subsequent developments better if first we have an impression of what was going on in the University of Utah chemistry department in 1988 , up to and around the time of the interaction with Jones . |
| 11 | It seems that Jesus himself organised this last journey , from the borrowing of a donkey and its foal to the challenging protest against what was going on in the Temple courts . |
| 12 | They did n't seem to be very bothered about issues other than what was going on in the village itself . |
| 13 | Whatever was going on in the village at the time when say the threshing machine was going round . |
| 14 | What the hell was going on in the child 's mind . |
| 15 | The following day , having asked some leading questions of our local newsagent — Mr Bales always seemed to know exactly what was going on in the terrace and was only too happy to share his knowledge with anyone who wanted to pass the time of day — I presented myself at the offices of John D. Wood in Mount Street . |
| 16 | The sounds of what was going on in the box were being relayed out into the laboratory where Gedanken was , but nothing happening in the laboratory was getting through to the beetles in the box . |
| 17 | He recalls once telling a group of students to clear their minds and observe what was going on in the room . |
| 18 | That was very early on in my filming if anyone had asked me I would have said ‘ I 'm always on the move , you know I never sit down in a lesson , and I do n't sit down but where I was on the move was in a very limited space so just having the camera at the back on that table , just having it still showed me so much about what was going on in the room and how you use the time … |
| 19 | I like to think that I share a love of the World Service and an interest in it with Mr. Gorbachev , who gave it one of the best unsolicited testaments that anyone could when he said that while being held prisoner he heard about what was going on in the world by listening to the World Service . |
| 20 | By screwing her eyes up against the glare , she could just about make out what was going on in the refectory . |
| 21 | Then she could actually see what was going on in the family , which was that her mother was servicing her father , who just looked out of the window most of the time , psychically speaking , while the siblings got on with their rivalry . |
| 22 | And we found that many parents were inclined to believe these kinds of reports , and yet this just was n't true if one saw what was going on in the schools . |
| 23 | What was going on in the castle they could only guess at . |
| 24 | She may perhaps have felt a little out of place but she articulates a rare understanding of what was going on in the place , all underpinned by an almost total recall of the fascinating minutiae of day-to-day events . |
| 25 | Ken Pitt : ‘ I think the great problem was David was always very insecure and because he was n't achieving the renown he wanted , like most artists he began to worry , bearing in mind that David was now living at Haddon Hall with a few of his friends , all of whom were unaware of what was going on in the office and how we were planning David 's career , what progress we were really making . |
| 26 | Miss Honey wondered what on earth was going on in the mind of this child . |
| 27 | Yeah cos er Jim had just come on duty and she was going up in the lift with somebody and they said please can we have five pounds , your mother 's just had her hair permed |