Example sentences of "[noun sg] going on [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a terrible rumpus going on outside . ’ |
| 2 | Ooh there 's a delicate little drawing going on here . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've got a full-scale search going on now . |
| 4 | Some of the direction is rather nifty and it 's also go the benefit of being very well shot , but then there 's a such a hell of a lot of the other type of shooting going on here it 's pretty difficult to notice . |
| 5 | Some of the direction is rather nifty and it 's also go the benefit of being very well shot , but then there 's a such a hell of a lot of the other type of shooting going on here it 's pretty difficult to notice . |
| 6 | ‘ I think ’ , said Mrs Quigley , sniffing the stale parlour with her long , dog 's nose , ‘ that there 's a bit of play-acting going on here ! ’ |
| 7 | Of course we hope that Dounreay will diversify and look for work outside nuclear tasks , especially in the area of alternative and renewable energies ; but we all know that the fast reactor programme will cease in 1994 and I do not think it right that , as a matter of policy , the hon. Lady should seek to shut off the work going on there to reprocess nuclear fuel . |
| 8 | Thames Valley Police report no major delays throughout the Fox F M area this evening , however roadworks continue on the A three six one at Wardington , there 's resurfacing work going on there . |
| 9 | Much of the work going on now in hospitals would be carried out in the community , she points out . |
| 10 | That is , there was work going on everywhere , but the noise of it was dispersed in the mild cloudy air , no longer staring blue , with the brassy sun striking down on dry earth . |
| 11 | They seemed to be laughing and mocking the battle going on below . |
| 12 | ‘ People like Mike Pickering and Jon Da Silva are up here DJing all the time and they 're telling people down there there 's a good scene going on here . ’ |
| 13 | and you can see the whole game live on Central on Monday afternoon … do n't miss it … now its a bank holiday weekend which means there 's lost of sport going on here 's the best of the action … |
| 14 | But you sense that 's only half of it , that there 's some form of exorcism going on here , some sort of expulsion of childhood ghosts . |
| 15 | He added : ‘ There is real suffering going on right now and we have to do what we can to alleviate it … to make sure people do n't starve . ’ |
| 16 | There was , I was gon na say there was a hell of a fight going on here the morning we come over yours between Christopher and Andrew , and I went in to sort out just in time to hear Christopher say well I 'm having all GrandPat 's money when he 's dead not you . |
| 17 | There seems to be a terribly quiet joke going on here , based on Renko 's former reputation as a bit of a cold fish . |
| 18 | She would n't mind this evening going on forever . |
| 19 | ‘ There is a fishing war going on here , ’ Mrs Knelle explained . |
| 20 | ‘ I suppose there 's a war going on somewhere . ’ |
| 21 | Of curse , there 's always a war going on somewhere — but if it ai n't good for business , it seems you wo n't find the concerned young darlings of today writing songs about it . |
| 22 | ‘ Where I come from there is always a war going on somewhere or other . |
| 23 | Of curse , there 's always a war going on somewhere — but if it ai n't good for business , it seems you wo n't find the concerned young darlings of today writing songs about it . |
| 24 | I did , yes , erm , when erm , we thought our prisoner was finished the co-ordinators wrote to me and said would I be interested , would our group be interested in erm , writing to Yugoslavia 's still , because with the Civil War going on there 's lots of cases coming up , for example there was a whole hospital full of patients that were taken prisoner I do n't know if they were actually physically removed or whether they were held in the hospital without access to medical treatment for something like ten days , and erm , Saria did say she 'd help me last time and I wrote back and said yes , two of us could write once a month , well they 're taken that very liberally and , and , got two or three things from the already and erm , if anyone else is interested in writing an odd letter say once a month to Yugoslavia maybe they could erm , let me know later on . . |
| 25 | But there 's a business going on there that somebody should put a spoke into , before something happens and a life is destroyed . ’ |
| 26 | So what 's interesting here is that they seem to be having a conversation about un the university matters , the history department and so on but in fact there 's this kind of subtext going on here in which both of them want to find out about the other person 's children and both of them are being very mysterious and avoiding the question . |
| 27 | more cunning stuff going on here as well . |
| 28 | An exhibition going on there is called Tying the Knot . |
| 29 | There 's some more planning going on here |
| 30 | Well , I think sometimes , I , at at home , erm , if I 'm , particularly if I 'm typing , I like music , and if the phone goes , people must wonder what on earth it is , because there 's music going on somewhere , which they obviously can hear in the background , but I like , I like that as a background . |