Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] be [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I asked the headmistress of a junior school my daughter had been attending about the racist remarks children at the school had been making her answer was well-meaning and typical : ‘ Asking them to say thank you and please or asking them not to swear is one thing but asking them not to say ‘ nigger ’ or ‘ wog ’ or ‘ black people stink ’ is quite another . |
| 2 | Night after sleepless night , her mother had been thinking about her , while Carolyn slept deep black sleeps and tried to keep her head empty . |
| 3 | An eighty five year old man who was beaten up and robbed at knifepoint at his home has been talking about his ordeal . |
| 4 | When the young man was twenty he discovered that his mother had been boasting about how wonderful he was to all her friends . |
| 5 | This is what some of our customers have been saying about environmental Service staff recently : |