Example sentences of "[verb] on about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is n't a political or geographical question , and I 'm not going to ramble on about environmental issues . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | JOHN Major keeps banging on about open government . |
| 5 | She was allowed to talk about herself if he was allowed to rave on about black men . |
| 6 | I gave him a lecture about how the car was too heavy , going on about power-to-weight ratios . |
| 7 | No she does to you though cos she 's always going on about other people talking about other people . |
| 8 | So when she was going on about Nigerian boys , I said , " So what , if I went out with this guy , you 'd be lucky if he stayed with me . " |
| 9 | It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers , but the plain fact of the matter was that the disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists ' houses and smashing their windows . |
| 10 | He 's going on about damn baths at the moment . |
| 11 | What is it going on about liquid gold and gold ? |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | I heard from Bridget there 's some kind of row going on about masculine endings . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Old Angie took everything seriously , always going on about mortal sin , and I got sodding tired of it , and of her , tell the truth . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | , 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 |
| 19 | He went on about various things but I only half heard him . |
| 20 | ‘ Willy rambled on about Norman archways and perpendicular naves , as if glad to have some arcane topic to take his mind off the inquest . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I found it incredibly erotic , and the more Dennis maundered on about boiled sweets on the nose , the more erotic it became . |
| 23 | Reading of the treatment by Durham County Council of the old people 's homes that are being closed , I say it is an absolute disgrace and this by the people who keep on about caring councils . |
| 24 | Horses wo n't be airsick all over your lap ; they do n't drone on about overbooked hotels , or insist on playing Scrabble to pass the time . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Medical sociology has long since given up looking at process — it 's too busy experiencing illness and waffling on about doctor-patient interaction . |
| 27 | Chainsaw guitars , bonecrusher drums , some bloke yammering on about serial killers … a sound that could only come from one place . |
| 28 | Then you ring Dial-A-Ticket ( 0532–710710 ) which is generally engaged , so you re-dial at frequent intervals till you get through to a recorded ticket office girl blotering on about similar information . |