Example sentences of "go [adv] about the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I 've been reading Richard Hoggart 's The Uses of Literacy on this journey ; he goes on about the working class not being able to think " abstractly , generally , metaphysically or politically . |
2 | Stop go stop going on about the bloody microphone ! |
3 | The first lecture I gave I was going on about the different approaches to psychology . |
4 | ‘ I was going on about the relative merits of casseroling and roasting . |
5 | Frank what about this argument that 's going on about the free kick that was disallowed ? |
6 | I 'm just a little bit concerned that if we do delay it while discussions are going on about the unitary authorities and such like , we 'll put restrictions on Mr running it as a commercial enterprise , and I think we have got to make sure that any long term deferral on this , we do n't inhibit him rationalising selling off the odd cottage and this sort of thing , and the farmhouse as we go along , and amalgamating ones because I think it 's , he 's got to be able to run it as a commercial proposition during the course of deliberations . |
7 | She 's already provided the couple with a tape of tribal fertility dances to ‘ release endorphins in the pelvic region ’ and before long she 's going on about the healing properties of dolphins . |
8 | ‘ He was going quietly about the important business of searching for insects and worms when this great big foot came along and almost trod on him . |
9 | I went on about the other woman , how she looked and what she was like in bed . |
10 | ‘ Anyway , ’ said Lydia , sitting up , ‘ it was Beuno who went on about the golden emerods . ’ |