Example sentences of "[adv] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anorexia is about identity in general , it is also specifically and most importantly about autonomy . |
| 2 | So being a fan is mostly about replenishment , and last year provided me with plenty of that ; outplayed by Benfica , two or three months of dismal ineptitude in the league around Christmas , and then the Wrexham humiliation … |
| 3 | Miss Wise was a strong supporter of the B.D.D.A. and wrote a number of articles for the British Deaf Times , mostly about travel in France . |
| 4 | ‘ What is it that you dislike most about work ? ’ |
| 5 | It was the unhappy love that taught me most about love 's nature — though not at the time , not until years later . |
| 6 | What did you dislike most about school/college/training ? |
| 7 | Everyone — from the woman who stamps your passport , through the taxi driver , to the hotel receptionist — talks constantly and instinctively about rugby . |
| 8 | The 29-year-old complained bitterly about pin positions , said it was stupid that players shooting scores of ‘ 101 and 98 ’ should be allowed to compete and claimed a tournament allowing such poor players should not be a Ryder Cup points-counting event . |
| 9 | She 'd tried to keep the newspaper story hidden from her because she did n't want to discuss it until she 'd had more time to get her thoughts in order … but of course mother had found it and started questioning compulsively about abortion , what exactly was the law on it now , how did you get one , where did you go , what did it cost , things she must have heard Dorothy and her friends discussing a hundred times but which the newspaper report had triggered into today 's obsession . |
| 10 | For the remainder of the meal , they chatted politely about business and exchanged city gossip . |
| 11 | Cos they 're always on about credit allowances and this that and therefore |
| 12 | He went on about mum . |
| 13 | Basically the same poeple who wank on about Man Utd all the time being the biggest and best at everything — biggest Stadium ( aka sewer ) , biggest world support ( but where were they in the 1991–1992 season ? ) , best youth team ( I do n't think ) . |
| 14 | There is a general section in the middle which probably goes into all such official club magazines — it craps on about Man U and Gazza a lot . |
| 15 | Oh I was on about sewing cos I said I 'd let them , you know , they were all doing a bit of sewing the other weekend , they all had a go like erm ooh , you know , I was saying he that Scott can cook and that , you know , we 've had a note he 's having one on , supposed to be all all of them to be independent , you know ? |
| 16 | Who told them to start drivelling on about happiness ? |
| 17 | No more listening to Charlie wittering on about architecture and the environment and bringing home his latest plant pals for her to talk to . |
| 18 | His father was a German-Jewish refugee and his mother Welsh , but Wartberg was an aggressive anglophile , given to wearing tweed suits and blathering on about flower growing , law and order , the decline of British standards ( he had just obtained one for his best-selling valve ) , the prohibitive business rate and so on . |
| 19 | We 're on about taxation this week , well the- they 're in trouble over that now . |
| 20 | I could 'ear 'er voice goin' on about somefink or the ovver . |
| 21 | He drones on about deception and intent to defraud and the imposing of penalties , and I 'm watching dumb like a picture on the wall . |
| 22 | What do you think dear , cos this child keeps moping on about bread |
| 23 | And I think it 's fruitless going on about blame and suspicion and guilt . |
| 24 | I mean I was reading in the paper the other day it was on about recycling |
| 25 | them very cheap because it was sa , this programme was on about recycling |
| 26 | ‘ Training courses go on about assertiveness , ’ says Angela MacKeith , ‘ but we 're actually quite assertive in our own worlds . |
| 27 | A lot of training goes on about assertiveness training and maybe the word has got around assertiveness is good and everything else is n't so good . |
| 28 | But Eubank also has a huge ego to feed , and Davies revealed : ‘ I know he 's always going on about money , but the truth is his main drive is pride — he hates the idea of losing . |
| 29 | I 'm not on about money , so long as you 're happy , yourself . |
| 30 | He would n't have attacked architects or gone on about ecology . |