Sentence examples for standoff going on from inspiring English sources

There's a bit of a standoff going on when I arrive to interview Rob Brydon.

As the standoff went on, a crowd gathered.

The standoff went on, and we were back home when his capture was announced.

"Every day this standoff goes on, more seeds of doubt are sown — not just among American companies, but among investors around the world," he says in the speech.

The standoff went on for what seemed like minutes, and then the bear dropped back to its forelegs to keep digging.

The shootout and ensuing standoff went on for more than an hour, as police used armored trucks to surround a bullet-riddled SUV on a San Bernardino street.

If the U.S. budget standoff goes on much longer, the German programmers could always go back to the original imagery used as background for the music: the station's 1960s-era test pattern.

The standoff went on for a few hours, with a lot of wide armed gesturing and the anti-fascists every so often breaking through the police to have a go at the right-wingers, who all eventually sloped off to the pub a few streets away.

Related: Greece debt standoff: George Osborne urges Athens and Brussels to strike deal What was going on was real life.

It was the first time a doctor had seen the hostages since they were abducted by boat from a Malaysian resort eight days ago in one of two kidnapping standoffs now going on in the southern islands.

The standoff has gone on for a decade, with the geopolitics and technical issues ever more complex.