Example sentences of "be going on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she 's with other people I do n't always understand what they 're going on about and that makes me feel stupid . |
| 2 | ‘ You ca n't say it 's a coincidence that in every interview you see with these women the journalist always picks that five minutes where they 're going on about abuse or victimisation . |
| 3 | in normal everyday things which I would n't otherwise have been aware of , and he 's been someone to have arguments with about science , and it 's nice to have someone who understands what you 're going on about . |
| 4 | ‘ Look , Jannie , ’ he said reasonably , following her back to the kitchen , ‘ just tell me what it is you 're going on about . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's what you 're going on about , is n't it , Jannie ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't know what you 're going on about . ’ |
| 7 | It , it 's also a chain , from what you 're going on about , people regarding the service , I mean everyone 's had a bit , not just the erm , it , it 's the purchase managers more than the er , people who pay our premiums , they are just in time and we stood up to be shot at if we do n't pay the service , or put a big ones maybe , they 'll have half a carton of raw material left for that machine , so they 'll order an item for tomorrow morning , well they 're not to blame for the service , T N T's to blame for the service if we do n't get it erm , |
| 8 | We wan na know what you 're going on about ! |
| 9 | Shut my ears while they 're going on at me , run upstairs , lock my bedroom door . |
| 10 | ‘ But Nutty says they 're going on with it , whatever happens . ’ |
| 11 | Yeah you 're going on as if , you started off on the fact that you do n't think we 've got any fear of them cos their kids are running round on the street and now all of sudden you say we have because they 've got nuclear weapons you say . |
| 12 | I know they 're going on to security entrance is n't it , where the er they 're going to have their own key or own method of getting in on an intercom . |
| 13 | ‘ If you 're going on to Matson , you might find a bit of it useful . |
| 14 | Well you see it depends how , what go you 're going on to . |
| 15 | Yeah so we get one and the you 're going on to the next one . |
| 16 | As for the staff , they 're going on to new jobs . |
| 17 | He said : My impression is that what has been going on over a period of years has come from , or been led by , a small mafia group of MI5 who have contacts outside in one or two sections of the press , and a few self-appointed private enterprise security agents . |
| 18 | There I mean there was nothing like the bombing that 's been going on , well , at least that 's what we 're told , the bombing that 's been going on over the last twenty four , forty eight hours of Baghdad for instance . |
| 19 | This meant a descent and , had we been going on through , the Pyrenees would have grounded us . |
| 20 | In fact ever since the pair of them started going out together they 've been going on about having to find poor old Jenny a new man . |
| 21 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 22 | He was a small boy of six who lived just around the corner from her , and for days he had been going on about this great talking parrot his father had given him . |
| 23 | He 's been going on about the dignity of labour . ’ |
| 24 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |
| 25 | After all those years of being told I was fat , I had the evidence in front of me and I suddenly realised what everyone had been going on about . |
| 26 | Because you , you 've just been going on about going abroad |
| 27 | Negotiations for a concordat had been going on between Spain and the Vatican for about the same length of time as those between Spain and the United States . |
| 28 | Immediately after his promotion , the archbishops of Compostella and Braga came personally into his presence in a case which had been going on between them concerning seven bishoprics . |
| 29 | ‘ What 's been going on between you and Guy , Virgie , darling ? |
| 30 | He believes that the bourgeois epoch of history is in its terminal crisis , but concedes that this crisis may have been going on since 1848 , which stretches not only ‘ bourgeois ’ but ‘ crisis ’ to breakingpoint . |