Example sentences of "was going [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore I did n't know what was going on to the point where I carried on working in a prefabricated hut hard by the administration block during a very successful students ' occupation in summer 1976 . |
| 2 | It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing . |
| 3 | To omit this background is rather like accusing the RAF of bombing innocent women and children in Berlin without mentioning that world war two was going on at the time . |
| 4 | Work at Liss pond , for instance , was going on at the moment to cut back overhanging trees which were starving the water of oxygen . |
| 5 | ‘ They also expressed a lack of knowledge about what was going on at the time , and they blamed their mothers for that . |
| 6 | The same person the same person all I 'm saying the reason that the meeting was convened this evening and the reason that Paul wants the meeting this evening was to get the views from the public about what they felt was going on at the playhouse and what they would like to see that is n't taken place I think that was the thing behind the meeting and that 's what we 'd like to see right okay . . . |
| 7 | His natural caution kept him on the political sidelines , although he was well placed to know what was going on at the highest level , as the ‘ Historia Roffensis ’ , written by a clerk in his entourage , demonstrates . |
| 8 | Did nobody have any idea what was going on at the time ? |
| 9 | Aye well that 's it er I mean there was no , as I said there was no alarms for anybody else or anybody who was n't there really would n't have a much of an idea to how drastic it was and what was going on at the time . |
| 10 | Should he ask him what was going on at the top of the Ministry and why they were resurrecting the Zoser case ? |
| 11 | I was able to meet some of the leading Indian academic figures in English and Linguistics , and at the same time to find out what was going on at the lower levels of teaching in Universities and affiliated Colleges . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Isabel was going on about the boots . |
| 14 | ‘ I was going on about the relative merits of casseroling and roasting . |
| 15 | The first lecture I gave I was going on about the different approaches to psychology . |
| 16 | She was going on about the grass they 've left on the |
| 17 | I mean when he er you know when that thing was going on about the old ? |
| 18 | so , and then he was going on about the work he 's doing on the |
| 19 | Was n't that implicit in whatever it was which was going on between the two of them ? |
| 20 | The global data structure , the Chart , would provide an easily accessible record of what exactly was going on between the different components . |
| 21 | More importantly , it reflects his laconic style , and what was going on under the surface : |
| 22 | Obviously , she thought sourly , checking to make sure that no hanky-panky was going on under the table between Piers and her , or else he was still so infatuated that he could n't bear not to look at her for too long . |
| 23 | I lost track of what was going on outside the alley until the officer tapped her shoulder with his revolver and waved it in my face . |
| 24 | Ken Pitt : ‘ I think the great problem was David was always very insecure and because he was n't achieving the renown he wanted , like most artists he began to worry , bearing in mind that David was now living at Haddon Hall with a few of his friends , all of whom were unaware of what was going on in the office and how we were planning David 's career , what progress we were really making . |
| 25 | ‘ During the campaign I never watched telly or saw my family and I never really knew what was going on in the election , ’ said his brother Andrew , 26 . |
| 26 | It seems that Jesus himself organised this last journey , from the borrowing of a donkey and its foal to the challenging protest against what was going on in the Temple courts . |
| 27 | She could imagine what was going on in the lugubrious depths of Baikal . |
| 28 | They did n't seem to be very bothered about issues other than what was going on in the village itself . |
| 29 | This fight was going on in the middle of the road . |
| 30 | She may perhaps have felt a little out of place but she articulates a rare understanding of what was going on in the place , all underpinned by an almost total recall of the fascinating minutiae of day-to-day events . |