Example sentences of "[be] going on [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You ca n't say it 's a coincidence that in every interview you see with these women the journalist always picks that five minutes where they 're going on about abuse or victimisation . |
| 2 | I know they 're going on to security entrance is n't it , where the er they 're going to have their own key or own method of getting in on an intercom . |
| 3 | or whether there is really a situation there , which probably has been going on since time in memorial , that we 've only just started to hear about it . |
| 4 | A devolution of power had also been going on at home and all our policy must take account of it . |
| 5 | And after all the fuss that 's been going on in work I do n't really like to ask to go early . |
| 6 | And we have not forgotten those of you who are going on to post graduate studies . |
| 7 | Erm so maybe they 'll be going on to university , college university . |
| 8 | An hour had passed since she had thought about Catherine , about her and Mike and what would be going on at home . |
| 9 | She tried to ignore the fact that inside her head two entirely different conversations were going on about Ace , and this dress neatly encapsulated one of them . |
| 10 | Leigh , who drew a quarter 's salary in March 1565 , was another graduate of the University of Cambridge ; good boys from the School were going on to University . |
| 11 | David and Geoffrey were perfectly welcome because they were English , but I was not welcome because I was American , so while they were staying on to see the May Day Parade , I was meant to leave and fly to Berlin where I would wait for David and Geoffrey who were going on by train through Poland . |
| 12 | The people of Midlothian are sick of the Liberal Democrats , because an argument is going on at present in Midlothian about who most wants to back the consortium and whether it is the Scottish National party or the Liberal Democrats . |
| 13 | During the time they have off they are kept in touch with what is going on at work by their line manager . |
| 14 | Erm the next stage is going on to unit four which is the the actual training plan which I think is where we 're we 're at today . |
| 15 | Diana much prefers sitting in the body of the auditorium where she can see what is going on on stage . |
| 16 | We can get some idea of what is going on by thinking of a sheet of canvas stretched on a horizontal frame . |
| 17 | However , this is clearly not what is going on in anorexia nervosa , although I do believe that emptiness is being used as a metaphor . |
| 18 | Some similar process is going on in anorexia nervosa : the conscious will has to be supreme because the anorexic has to be in complete control . |
| 19 | So what is going on in illness ? |
| 20 | ‘ The problem for people at the USTA and the LTA is that they are too far removed from what is going on in tennis to know what is really required , ’ he says . |
| 21 | Both the local and national matter , and what is going on in history will not be understood without reference to both . |
| 22 | Here is a spoken description of what is going on in Figure 15 given by a patient with Broca 's aphasia ( from Funnell , 1983 ) : |
| 23 | Here is how a patient with Wernicke 's aphasia gave an account of what is going on in Figure 15 ( Funnell , 1983 ) : |
| 24 | Although it is easy to observe what is going on in practice , constructing an explicit statement of what the system is that is being considered inevitably gives rise to problems of interpretation and semantics . |
| 25 | The periodicals keep you in touch with what is going on in practice and indicate new developments in research . |
| 26 | Erm often it 's the father , often the abuse is going on in connection with a whole range of processes whereby that person dominates the climate in that household . |
| 27 | But this suggests simply that a kind of unconscious holding operation is going on among psychology 's more powerful subjects . |
| 28 | Erm and then he 's talking , he 's going on to education which er obviously at this time he would think is very important erm because that 's how he would start the revolution , you know , i in the first place . |
| 29 | Yes it 's going on to word processor . |
| 30 | We can do , we 've just got to , I mean we 've just got to ask everyone to give a very brief report erm on another occasion and then it can be kept very short , I think though , there are , there are times when , when , you know , we do want to hear what 's going on with sort of er networks and campaigns , we do need that time as well do n't we , er so we ca n't , I do n't think we can always do it . |