Example sentences of "that [was/were] going on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well if you remember that the Jarrow marches and the general strike were n't very many years erm you know be behind the preparations that were going on for the second world war . |
| 2 | This was partly because of events that were going on around me : Kathleen building towards her retirement and , as was to become highly significant , Katrina deciding that she wanted to make a move as well . |
| 3 | Going to the first GLF meeting brought together these two aspects of myself as I saw for the first time the emotional need to have a context where I could be open and proud of my gayness , as well as the political context where my sexuality would seem relevant to all the other things that were going on around me at work and in the country at large . |
| 4 | She 'd come every two weeks to see me , she used to tell me everything that was going on with Natasha , and we built a very strong relationship up . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the struggle and confusion that was going on in my heart I knew that he loved me and I loved him , but I also knew that I must leave him ! |
| 7 | The one thing that was going on in Christ Church was good — did you see the exhibition , the exhibition |
| 8 | It was n't that I was n't listening , I heard him all right ; but I was busy with my own thoughts , or , rather , my own feelings — the two were inextricably mixed together at this moment — and what he said was merely a background to the tumult that was going on inside me . |
| 9 | I just stood and stared for a few moments amid all the activity that was going on around the wounded Lovat . |
| 10 | I saw David shovelling more and more , he was getting more tired , more irritable , more run-down and less able to control the madness that was going on around him . |
| 11 | Karloff recalled the chaos that was going on around him : ‘ When we started filming , the removal men came to take away the sets . |
| 12 | Others said it must have been that girl who worked here , the one who was the German officer 's mistress , she knew everything that was going on around here . |