Example sentences of "[v-ing] on in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next we went to see what the hell was going on in a couple of places further down the block . |
| 2 | Two thousand homes could be powered by electricity from the wind if experiments going on in a farmer 's field prove successful . |
| 3 | Anyone who imagines that a British Chancellor of the Exchequer could , wholly independently , determine interest rates here without considering what was going on in a Europe with a single currency , with all the other member countries belonging to it , is totally wrong . |
| 4 | The imperfections. of these methods of plasma diagnostics — the term used to describe the art of measuring what is going on in a plasma — gave rise to persistent difficulties and ambiguities until the late 1960s , when lasers had arrived on the scene . |
| 5 | I do n't believe that you have any idea of what 's really going on in a country or culture until you live there . |
| 6 | Best of all is Donald Maxwell , marvellously sinister as the hunchback Prime Minister , Leander , sidling on in a way to chill the blood . |
| 7 | getting fed up Okay just to finish up now , because we 're gon na be moving on in a minute . |
| 8 | But then , having exhausted his recollections of the circumstances of his writing the paper , he switched to more personal matters and enquired carefully how I was getting on in a way that made me reel that my mission had been worthwhile and that I had by no means wasted his morning . |
| 9 | Let mummy just watch the news then I think Playbus is coming on in a moment . |
| 10 | The family were following on in a state of high Latin hysteria . |