Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I persisted , rather surprised that somebody who really had done something was so reticent , when there are people , like me for instance , who bleat on about the most tawdry experiences . |
| 2 | So , we bang on about the play and the staging and the big themes , and , if there 's any space left , then , as the chairman of Critics ' Forum wearily intones , ‘ I suppose we ought to say something about the performances . ’ |
| 3 | Shivering at the landing extension , I heard his brisk boisterous voice rattling on about the ! ! ! historic meeting of a famous comic and a famous bust who were going to make a film together . |
| 4 | Goin' on about the seats all the time she was . |
| 5 | Adam it was who made up the fires of a morning , when his mistress , who slept only fitfully at night , was already awake , Adam who crept noiselessly about the place , unnoticed , who must have seen them together last night outside the ballroom . |
| 6 | We will consult widely about the detailed structure of this new qualification , and finalise proposals quickly . |
| 7 | He gazed despairingly about the room . |
| 8 | The directors , who claimed they had not been consulted properly about the scheme , agreed to continue to run their buses to the estate for a trial period when the humps are introduced . |
| 9 | Cornucopia : rabbits , hunched and private , loping slowly about the lawn in the moonlight ; a green frog , gleaming and sparkling in the dewy sunlit grass as it wiggled along some compelling migratory path ; squirrels — quick flashes of ginger and grey in the treetops , a sudden glimpse of bright beady eyes ; a mythical fox — dusky shadow and sinister snowprints . |
| 10 | Maconie then goes on about the ‘ Fred EP ’ and how the proceeds go to THT . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ One of her lines … as the king … goes on about the Gods not suffering the unpiety of his sister to go unpunished . |
| 13 | I think we had better try and influence that as churches not that we should about the suffering that goes on about the death that goes on , but I think we ought to give all this another dimension in churches . |
| 14 | The second paragraph goes on about the report to council Environmental Services Committee by the District Chief . |
| 15 | It may be that the poll tax was used as a pretext for anarchists , militants and other left-wing Labour Party fellow travellers to encourage riots and civil disorder , but many joined in for the kicks and cared little about the issue . |
| 16 | This is Atlantic water , which originates in the north Atlantic Ocean at a temperature of 2°C and salinity of 35 ppt , and cools almost to 0°C as it circulates slowly about the ocean basin ; its salinity remains high at 34.9ppt . |
| 17 | This will involve tone as much as doctrine , but he would be as ill-advised to go on about the Government 's intention of building a classless society , which it ca n't build anyway , as to adopt the easy belief that the climate of opinion can be left to look after itself while ministers get on with the practical business of government . |
| 18 | No need to go on about the band in this preamble . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't want to go on about the amount or work — everybody works hard . |
| 20 | Like my hon. Friend the Member for Bosworth ( Mr. Tredinnick ) , I have personal views about some of those matters , but we should await the report , when we will have a little more to go on about the circumstances and how this could have happened . |
| 21 | ‘ The home market is n't demanding enough about the quality and finish compared with its European counterparts , ’ says York . |
| 22 | I felt that this was what Leslie would have wanted me to do , for he always cared greatly about the welfare of his men . |
| 23 | Kathy Page makes us think afresh about the lies that bind and the barriers that separate . |
| 24 | ‘ I had heard much about the Island , but could not have been prepared for the spectacle of some three hundred and eight square miles ’ says Val , ‘ I had five days in which to explore and photograph the unfamiliar panorama which stretched before me . ’ |
| 25 | Some regions and countries would have a comparative advantage , either because they were sparsely populated or because they cared less about the smell of a rubbish dump than their more pernickety neighbours did . |
| 26 | The act was widely seen as a direct challenge to local representational democracy , and revealed much about the capacity of labourism to respond to perceived threats to its authority . |
| 27 | The collection of his personal correspondence revealed much about the affairs of the twelfth century ; the semi-Romanesque , semi-Gothic design of his new cathedral reflected his own dual goals . |
| 28 | Goes in about an inch . |
| 29 | Pink bolts were rattling randomly about the area . |
| 30 | But he had not , perhaps , been taught overmuch about the battle-tactics of the Romans . |