Sentence examples for kind going on from inspiring English sources

"I don't think I've ever seen a time when there was more construction of both the new and the refurbishing kind going on," said the writer John McPhee, who not only grew up here as the son of a university doctor but who now teaches a writing seminar here himself.

But it was the book's emphasis on the drudgery and routine of police work, its insistence on the glacially slow rate of progress, its fascination with the failures and frustrations of the job that got me thinking that there was something of the kind going on.

While rugby spent the past week looking back on the glorious careers of two of its departing heroes, Jonny Wilkinson and Brian O'Driscoll, there was forensic analysis of a very different kind going on elsewhere close to the game.

It wasn't that I no longer had any dark thoughts passing through my head; it was that I had so little thinking of any kind going on relative to what I was used to that it was a bit of a shock, like hearing the sound of the quiet in the countryside on your first evening away from the city.

Death cancels our individuality, we know that, yes, but ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, and the kind goes on, human life and culture succeed us.

"It's absolutely hopping, there's all kinds going on in there.

Ms. Kind goes on to point out that, in her opinion, while Ms. Mora went to art school, "it didn't ruin her".

So, there was a lot of that kind of thing going on at that period.

It is a kind of game going on here.

"You could not possibly tune a violin with that kind of noise going on," Martin said.

We have all kinds of vandalism going on up there".