Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Robert Jones and Aled Williams a dominating half-back force , Wales coach Alan Davies will need little prompting about the men he should choose for the Test in two weeks time . |
| 2 | And it was even more crazy to stand here daydreaming about it , she castigated herself . |
| 3 | I trudged home thinking about my day . |
| 4 | ‘ Stop even thinking about her . ’ |
| 5 | Inevitably Cash and Nelson dominated , Cash still singing about how he ‘ shot a man in Reno , just to watch him die ’ with terse relish , and Nelson drawing on a very Texan blend of swing , blues and country for a string of tender ballads . |
| 6 | Yet somehow , sometimes , with the other kids , she felt guilty enough to blush just thinking about Miss Hazelwood . |
| 7 | The man and wife arrested with him have been bailed but probably face further questioning about suspected harbouring of an escaped prisoner . |
| 8 | ‘ There is likely to be more , I say continue , but let's not keep here talking about it , ’ said Joseph and with that he brought down his axe on a dummy beside him . |
| 9 | I was lying there thinking about fellatio at the time . |
| 10 | For a miracle , almost boiling hot water poured out of the taps into the bath and Julia let herself have a really deep bath for once , lying there dreaming about the day when her life might be whole again and weaving plans to make it so , until the skin of her fingers and toes crinkled and the water felt cold . |
| 11 | She was lying there worrying about that when she started to feel these twinges . ’ |
| 12 | His fret began to ache just thinking about it . |
| 13 | So why are my neck hairs rising just writing about it ? |
| 14 | Fortunately , when I did we maintained a perfect climbing attitude , I completed my mission , during which I spent sometime thinking about the young airman who had done the daily inspection of the instruments , and had left the auto pilot engaged . |
| 15 | But the glamour soon wore off and she began publicly complaining about media attacks and lack of privacy . |
| 16 | yes , the schools group , yes , I mean , that , that could operate more , in fact we could have , instead of having just talking about the , about the India one , er instead of having one person at it , it could be a group of , of three perhaps , er . |
| 17 | I 'm just y'know just thinking about some of the things that occur to me . |
| 18 | They had driven home arguing about which night was Midsummer night . |
| 19 | If you start looking across the week 's or month 's programmes you 'll see the same issue being brought up in a number of different areas , and that 's what we 've got to start theoretically thinking about . |
| 20 | What am I saying as we sit here talking about this rather strange difficulty that we find ourselves in ? |
| 21 | It 's funny how you can spend every minute of every day with someone , and then never see her for weeks on end , just because you 'd stopped even thinking about her . |
| 22 | Aggie went away thinking about what she had been told and she confided in Nellie Tanner once more . |
| 23 | She caught her breath , her palms damp just thinking about the powerful surges of emotion she 'd felt in his arms . |
| 24 | I made so much money , he went home grumblin' about someone fiddlin' his profits . |
| 25 | ‘ How can you stand there talking about bits of paper and profits and money … money , ’ she made the word into an excrescence , ‘ when what you are doing is playing with a human soul . |
| 26 | ‘ Well then , do n't just stand there talking about it … do it ! ’ |
| 27 | cos I thought maybe asking about their own experience but okay |
| 28 | She had n't had an early night for ages and when she did get to bed she did n't sleep but just lay there thinking about Karl . |
| 29 | But while Howard sits there , trying not to think about those 97,000 piled corpses , he apparently sits there thinking about coffee . |
| 30 | He goes there talking about paper sovereignty , when the country 's real sovereignty is increasingly dependent on the actions of our European Community partners . |