Example sentences of "be go on at " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Shut my ears while they 're going on at me , run upstairs , lock my bedroom door . |
| 2 | The move is symbolic of what has been going on at H&C since George Paul , the chief executive , took over two years ago . |
| 3 | A devolution of power had also been going on at home and all our policy must take account of it . |
| 4 | In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade . |
| 5 | My own view is that neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold knew very much about the complex debate that has been going on at least since Rousseau about progressive education , and that they did not realise that my Group would be strongly opposed to Mrs Thatcher 's views about grammar and rote-learning . |
| 6 | A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men . |
| 7 | They must know it 's been going on at domestic and international level for a long time . |
| 8 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |
| 9 | The pupils had been going on at me about ‘ You 're always picking on me ’ ' and then finally the boy said to him that he was picking on him because he was black and he said ‘ That just triggered it off ’ . |
| 10 | They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions . |
| 11 | Shipbuilding for the Royal Navy has been going on at Lairds since the 1830s . |
| 12 | ‘ Things are going on at this school , ’ went on Dr Ali , in a whisper , ‘ of which it is difficult for a good Muslim to approve . ’ |
| 13 | Because because there 's so many there 's so many things that are going on at the moment that it it does take time . |
| 14 | An hour had passed since she had thought about Catherine , about her and Mike and what would be going on at home . |
| 15 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 16 | I think from that report there was a there was a requirement or request that perhaps the theatre should actually have a public meeting to talk about which way the theatre was going what things were going on at the theatre and that 's what the meeting is for this evening . |
| 17 | Concentration has nothing to do with gritting your teeth and braving it out ; it 's the secret of being more and more relaxed and aware of everything that is going on at the same time . |
| 18 | During the time they have off they are kept in touch with what is going on at work by their line manager . |
| 19 | One such exercise is going on at the Building Research Establishment . |
| 20 | Thus , for example , in order to understand what is going on at the local outside-level on Lewis , it is necessary to examine the structure of the oil industry as a whole . |
| 21 | I do not believe in using the deep trance state in any form of therapy as it involves hypnoamnesia , a state in which the patient will neither be aware of what is going on at the time nor able to recall it afterwards . |
| 22 | Yet conflict may be handled more effectively if what is going on within is taken into account as well as what is going on at the surface . |
| 23 | But then , I do n't like much of what is going on at all . |
| 24 | These molecules , the ultimate source of information about what is going on at a specific time in a particular cell , are extremely labile chemically ( for example , to traces of alkaline detergent in less than scrupulously clean glassware ) and enzymatically ( to the ubiquitous ribonuclease ) . |
| 25 | She does n't like crowds of adoring relatives and friends , and becomes distressed when too much is going on at once . |
| 26 | 1 What is going on at the beginning of the poem ? 2 What do you think has happened before the poem begins ? 3 Do you think the boys are afraid ? |
| 27 | knows what is going on at all times within the department ; |
| 28 | My interpretation of what is going on at the present day is being saved for the next chapter , but some of the most startling results come from the latest ( and most accurately dated ) deposits . |
| 29 | Where this factor-augmenting technical progress is going on at constant exponential rates , the production function may be written ( 8–15 ) where K denotes the rate of capital augmentation and the rate of labour augmentation . |
| 30 | 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 . |