Example sentences of "was going on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have an excellent reputation in Oxfordshire as an Education Authority erm and a reputation which extends around the country , so I do see it as a vote of confidence , and I am very pleased about it , but I do think that the whole exercise was somewhat premature in the light of the erm research and investigation that was going on into the tertiary college , and indeed the consulting process actually ran through at the same time as the campaign was running on whether the Banbury School should opt out , and erm regrettably I think has lost something as a result of having the two run together . |
| 2 | ‘ I was going on about the relative merits of casseroling and roasting . |
| 3 | I mean when he er you know when that thing was going on about the old ? |
| 4 | The first lecture I gave I was going on about the different approaches to psychology . |
| 5 | The global data structure , the Chart , would provide an easily accessible record of what exactly was going on between the different components . |
| 6 | Held at the delightfully seedy SW1 Club in Victoria , much of the action was going on in the partitioned-off VIP enclosure . |
| 7 | She could imagine what was going on in the lugubrious depths of Baikal . |
| 8 | Had she sensed that anything was going on beneath the conventional exchange ? |
| 9 | I just stood and stared for a few moments amid all the activity that was going on around the wounded Lovat . |