Example sentences of "[v-ing] about [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the literal meaning of writing or drawing about whores , it may be applied nowadays to practically anything which affects the senses and excites sexual associations . |
| 2 | Carter are the latest thing people compare us to , every bloody review of them you read — two South Londoners with a drum machine singing about pubs and football , you think ‘ Are they writing about us again ? ’ ’ |
| 3 | I am here making recordings of the Masai singing about cows and meanwhile my father is sitting in Paris pretending to be a man of the world , a saviour of his people while they are being sent off to be killed . ’ |
| 4 | and there she 'd be , strumming away , singing about places she 'd never seen and was n't likely to , rivers and mountains and islands in the sun . |
| 5 | I rang up my old man this morning and asked if he remembered Dickie Fishbane at school , and he exploded and started bellowing about degenerates and scoundrels . |
| 6 | This , like the advertising language which Darwin 's family teased him with using about beetles and barnacles , was characteristic of Victorian naturalists . |
| 7 | I got another erm magazine but only because this one had erm a special supplement all about the Alliance and Leicester explaining about mortgages and everything |
| 8 | Terrestrial birds highly adapted to climbing about trees , extracting insect prey from their bark and rotten wood , and also excavating nest holes : tail stiff ( except in Wryneck ) , to act as support against vertical surfaces , with zygodactyl feet ( two toes pointing forwards , two backwards ) but one toe vestigial ; legs short , bill stout ( except Wryneck ) , and tongue very long . |
| 9 | Catch a man bitching about healthhazards and conditions and going out on strike over no papertowels in the toilet or nagging over the lack of day nursery facilities |
| 10 | Five years ago at such a gathering everyone would probably have been talking about property , or inside deals , between bitching about colleagues . |
| 11 | In the by-elections , I rapidly became disillusioned by the men who not only ended up taking credit for the Group 's existence but who also displayed a total lack of understanding about issues affecting Asian women in Britain . |
| 12 | Donald Michie 's idea of the ‘ human window ’ , the vital importance of making machines comprehensible to human beings , only got a passing reference , while pride of place was given to Ed Fredkin 's musing about computers of the future which will think about ‘ weighty problems we simply ca n't understand ’ . |
| 13 | pushing about prams , |
| 14 | I suppose with all the students wandering about pedestrians Yes I wonder where that was cos I 'm sure there was a Henry Moore sculpture . |
| 15 | As well as writing about frocks and advising on what to wear the day after tomorrow , she also writes articles on entertaining , decoration , travel parties and books . |
| 16 | The constant use of ‘ he ’ when talking and writing about managers gives women and girls the impression that it is an uphill struggle if they want a career in a leadership position . |
| 17 | There is the theory of art , and there is aesthetics ; there is writing about artefacts which may or may not be categorised as art , but are in the hands of the archaeologist or the anthropologist ; and there is art appreciation . |
| 18 | ‘ She 's writing about ruins , not just ordinary ruins , but things made to look like ruins . |
| 19 | At the beginning of the nineteenth century you get people like Jane Austen writing , writing about heroines with minds of their own , women who can actually think and talk and do all sorts of things that very often in literature women had n't been conceptualised as doing before . |
| 20 | Frederica said to Alexander , before he could say it to her , that there was an intrinsic problem in writing about artists , for how could he dramatise the battle with the colours and forms as opposed to the whore and the rival , the father , the brother , the nephew Vincent Van Gogh ? |
| 21 | IF I WAS not writing about dancers , I would love to write about horses . |
| 22 | well erm , sort of in that erm , I was asked to come and do this talk , and so I , I organise to make sure that I had access to some of Gaugin 's work and then to write poems about it , erm , so , erm , only in as much as that it was a waiting to hear this talk , but a lot of my work is through commissions and so I find myself writing about things that I perhaps do n't have any interest in particularly , erm , or I find actually in a waiting , asked to write about anything is quite er exciting and actually using my skill I think it should be , as a writer I should really be able to write about everything . |
| 23 | Now meanwhile — not meanwhile , but quite a lot later — in early medieval allegory , you find that the allegorical poet has a quite ordinary technical problem when he 's writing about things like mercy and cruelty . |
| 24 | Now , meanwhile , or not meanwhile , quite a lot later , in early mediaeval allegory , you find that the allegorical poet has a quite ordinary technical problem when he 's writing about things like mercy and cruelty . |
| 25 | William Horwood made his name writing about moles in the Dunction books . |
| 26 | While both these objections have truth to them , it is also clear that a range of critical writings which share more preoccupations than differences has emerged and that it can be contrasted to other forms of writing about texts and history . |
| 27 | Most of those who write and speak about universities are themselves specialists — in speaking and writing about universities . |
| 28 | ‘ If you were writing about animals , it would be a fable . ’ |
| 29 | Not only mating is controlled pheromonally , so too are finding and exploiting food , recruiting nest mates for battle , warning about enemies . |
| 30 | The train pulled in at her station and Lee got herself out into the street , touching too many people , climbing ugly grey stairs , looking at posters advertising Tampax , warning about Aids , promising relief in the Bahamas , selling newspapers , selling theatre tickets , selling life , she thought , but it ca n't be bought , not really , it 's within . |