Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Bush droned on about good and evil , right and wrong , Hitler , Munich , appeasement , using all the same phrases that most of us thought we had heard for the last time , after the revolutions of 1989 . |
| 32 | I found it incredibly erotic , and the more Dennis maundered on about boiled sweets on the nose , the more erotic it became . |
| 33 | ‘ You 're always on about happy and enjoy . |
| 34 | , I do n't think you 've got anything to worry about , have you seen that advert for Babycham no erm the advert with Babycham , erm , er running on about true romantics and he goes through all the differences his and this woman marrying this guy and she must be and she must be fifty five , and he 's about twenty three , twenty four and Rob turns round the other day and said , she 's got |
| 35 | So er I hope what this er series of interviews will er serve to prove , is both the quality of thinking that 's going on about public services , and our very strong commitment to the customers and citizens we serve . |
| 36 | Lucky to have parents who did n't throw up their hands in horror and carry on about unmarried mothers , being too young to know our own minds , etc . |
| 37 | I mean , what would you do if you were a lawyer and a boy came in and started yapping on about missing Wills like in some kid 's story ? |
| 38 | But I was in a foul temper , and Rebecca had n't made it any easier by going on about missing papers , and how urgent it was that we had them back . ’ |
| 39 | Erm and erm I do n't think that on the to go on about affordable housing as I did this morning , I do n't think that in fact the affordable housing targets which the different authorities have and although I 've only quoted four authorities I think , I think the other ones will be very much the same . |
| 40 | I heard from Bridget there 's some kind of row going on about masculine endings . |
| 41 | erm I 'm on about big tins . |
| 42 | Old Angie took everything seriously , always going on about mortal sin , and I got sodding tired of it , and of her , tell the truth . |
| 43 | LISTENING to Barenboim talk on about abstract matters like ‘ the sonic neutrality of the piano ’ , I began to understand why he had such a formidable reputation . |
| 44 | Erm that um anyway er that 's a slight aside so erm when you hear people going on about false memory syndrome it tends to pre-suppose that there are certain memories which are true by contrast um which is n't necessarily always going to be the case . |
| 45 | I 'm not on about houses I 'm on about main buildings like St Paul 's an' all that |
| 46 | Medical sociology has long since given up looking at process — it 's too busy experiencing illness and waffling on about doctor-patient interaction . |
| 47 | JOHN Major keeps banging on about open government . |
| 48 | The rationalisation is one of several going on between various European defence companies in a shrinking market . |
| 49 | This becomes technically possible for Cabinet government , a private practice carried on between appointed adults , only when the Cabinet Office archive has become available under the thirty-year rule . |
| 50 | the local communities have been ignored in these issues and these discussions that are going on between British Coal and the County Council . |
| 51 | If this sort of technology was introduced into commercial-sized refrigeration plants , they could be turned off during peak times and then switched back on during low demand periods , saving money for the companies that own them and using less energy . |
| 52 | Do you have it on during Blind Date . |
| 53 | Immigration laws inherited from the former East German state , which were due to expire on January 1st , are being allowed to carry on for Soviet Jews arriving in Berlin . |
| 54 | Of the total 79 referrals received between October 1987 and March 1988 , the NSPCC team dealt with 50 cases alone , jointly investigated one with social services department staff and referred the remainder on for various reasons for example , secondary task work . |
| 55 | Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs . |
| 56 | Food , of course , remains a topic of passionate concern — the focus of minor complaints and disagreements which rumble on for long periods — and outbursts of contentment which are extremely short-lived . |
| 57 | Kitchen floors need to be tough enough to withstand all sorts of spills , grease and damp , comfortable enough to stand on for long periods , and handsome to look at . |
| 58 | Cut the fingers off an odd glove and stick pater shapes on for instant finger puppets . |
| 59 | There has been work going on for sometime in developing user friendly programs for statistical analysis which are ‘ intelligent ’ in that they include many checks for pitfalls and errors . |
| 60 | But he must n't forget that it was a great occasion for old Willis , who must be getting on for sixty-live , ready to take the knock any day now . |