Example sentences of "[was/were] go [adv prt] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet even as these deliberations were going on in Washington , a new Sino-American crisis had developed in the Far East . |
| 2 | Washington said it knew for months that secret PLO-Israel negotiations were going on in Norway , but was surprised by the level of detail in the agreement hammered out in those Oslo talks . |
| 3 | Let me give another very recent example while these rather alarming , in some ways , events were going on in Arkensaw , the London Times — not the Sunday Times now — had as a centre page article by a distinguished cosmologist , Fred Hoyle , announcing to a startled world that he 'd suddenly acquired some doubts about evolution . |
| 4 | Almost equally ambitious development projects were going on in Kenya at about the same time . |
| 5 | We knew the rents were going up in Tottenham mews and we could n't find any good , affordable space in town . |
| 6 | Whereas before we were going up in leaps and bounds . |
| 7 | The thing is the said to me she said , oh were going out in style and have a drink , had a really nice sandwich there like , it was french loaf about that bit , get nice home cooked lot 's of cheese and onion right , really nice . |
| 8 | Yeah but er you see on Christmas Day children were going about in bikinis and and shorts , or no socks or so |
| 9 | Here she had first met Ion Manescu who had taken her under his wing — she was an invaluable conduit as to what was going on in Moscow and sympathetic to the Romanian régime . |
| 10 | Occasionally , when there had to be a drastic reassessment of public expenditure , it became evident from the leaks and rumours of resignations that something important was going on in Whitehall during the summer months , but neither backbenchers nor the House in general were able to find out what was happening or to discuss the changes being made in expenditure plans . |
| 11 | ‘ As a matter of fact , ’ says Howard suddenly , ‘ when you think about it , I ca n't really have known what was going on in Bill Brice 's mind — or in Professor Cornish 's . |
| 12 | They just wanted to know what was going on in East Germany there and then . |
| 13 | Leopold continued to keep Mozart and his mother apprised of all that was going on in Salzburg , including accounts of performances of Mozart 's compositions . |
| 14 | They knew only too well what was going on in Baldersdale but Sam and his brood were too wily to be caught and the law could expect no help from other residents . |
| 15 | As Lewis watched him walk sway up to Hamilton Road , he wondered , as he 'd so often wondered , what exactly Morse was thinking ; wondered about what was going on in Morse 's mind at that very moment ; the reading of the clues , those clues to which no one else could see the answers ; those glimpses of motive that no one else could ever have suspected ; those answers to the sort of questions that no one else had even begun to ask … |
| 16 | ‘ How else would I know what was going on in Cologne ? ’ said the Prior blandly . |
| 17 | The most absorbing topic to me was what was going on in Lebanon and , increasingly , Iran . |
| 18 | His interest in what was going on in America was always strong . |
| 19 | ‘ We were very lucky when we first came over , ’ acknowledges Niall with a hearty slug of purified H 2 O. ‘ We did n't know what was going on in London , we were just here at the right time to entertain everyone . |
| 20 | The English ambassador — and the English king — no doubt found the spectacle of what was going on in Scotland rather less surprising than Sir George Douglas . |
| 21 | So she must have been really , had really deep feelings about what was going on in society and why she should do that . |
| 22 | He 'd been about to call him and find out what was going on in Brooklyn when he 'd heard the voice and the rapping on the door . |
| 23 | It is important for us to understand , therefore , that what was going on in schools in the 1920s , '30s , '40s and '50s paled into insignificance by the side of community drama . |
| 24 | Something very funny was going on in Riverbank — and it was all Anabelle 's doing . |
| 25 | The one thing that was going on in Christ Church was good — did you see the exhibition , the exhibition |
| 26 | On hearing from a parent that : something was going on in terms of a library project , he proceeded to put everything into action and got the support of the governing body … saying that we wanted to do something with our library . |
| 27 | ‘ So I see , ’ Alyssia replied in a stiff voice , wondering what was going on in Piers 's head at this masquerade . |
| 28 | That we could own what was going on in Canberra . |
| 29 | I 'm not saying that people would have never changed their ideas but if it would have been done in the manner that it would have been done in in the first place and if people would have been told about their future lives and if people had been , would 've accepted what was going on in light of all the decisions that have been taken previously regarding the merger issue . |
| 30 | Sir , reference to my appendix number five makes it clear that there was some lack of knowledge er by those in the village er round about June nineteen ninety two as to what was going on in Ryedale with regard to the site north of Skelton . |