Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mothers are all right , I suppose , you 'd miss them fussing about the place , but ould fellows are like that hind tits of a cow – no good for use or ornament . |
| 2 | ‘ If one of my lecturers had been murdered , I would n't like to hear someone gloating about the details . ’ |
| 3 | All the same , he found himself wondering about the strange animal and , almost as ii he was under some strange influence , he could not get the events out of his mind . |
| 4 | Immediately after this story comes that of the giving of the manna , and immediately after that another concerning their complaining about a lack of water ( 17.1–7 ) . |
| 5 | That call was an hour and a half in coming , during which time he distracted himself thinking about the shows that were opening in the coming week . |
| 6 | They left the hatch open , and we could hear them going about the barge , arguing with the bargemen . |
| 7 | Romany mimed them going about the boat , looking here and looking there . |
| 8 | And something brisk to take you bowling about the place . |
| 9 | But tell me , what are you doing about the spy camera ? ’ |
| 10 | What are you doing about the City Centre , Phyllis Starkey ? |
| 11 | ‘ Why are you asking about the headsail ? ’ she enquired , steering the conversation on to less painful ground . |
| 12 | I I was interested in you saying about the doom and gloom which is |
| 13 | Erm , I would agree that erm , what you saying about the anorexic thing and the fact that 's it 's a sort of deep-seated unhappiness , but I think that 's far too general . |
| 14 | You know , the one whose driving-licence picture was in the paper , she 'd been shot , was n't she asking about the Schickerts ? |
| 15 | I was happy about it when I went home and told my mum , but she said , ‘ what are you talking about a factory ? |
| 16 | I mean are you talking about a hundred and fifty ? |
| 17 | Are you talking about a boy that plays with Sarah ? |
| 18 | ‘ Are you talking about the children ? ’ |
| 19 | Are you talking about the words or the message ? |
| 20 | ‘ Were you talking about the famous Britches ? |
| 21 | Are you talking about the current rate as it prevails or we 're told it prevails ion North Yorkshire , or are you looking at a figure which is somewhat nearer the national average or the figure which Mr 's organization have chosen . |
| 22 | Are you talking about the Carlton or the Carlton Rooms ? |
| 23 | Are you talking about the , the winding forward of bill two pay two ? |
| 24 | So preoccupied was she thinking about the unseemly position of her raised buttocks , that she did n't see the whip rise to crack across her beleathered fundament . |
| 25 | Were you scrabbling about the floor ? |
| 26 | Were you thinking about a child who could own er |
| 27 | ‘ Are you thinking about the fact that we might have been murdered ourselves last night ? ’ |
| 28 | Listening to them complaining about the usual stuff ! |
| 29 | ‘ It is a country with opportunities , ’ said Steve : and off they went again , with their second-hand opinions , their echoes of overheard conversations , their phrases from advertisements and tabloid newspapers : and yet to Shirley there was perhaps something comfortable , despite all , something reassuring about the hands of cards , the button and matchstick money , the green baize of the table , the predictable , ancient jokes , the cigarette ends in the big red ashtray : there was safety here , of a sort , safety in repetition , safety in familiar faces and frustrations , and warmth of a sort , warmth and communion of a sort , society of a sort : the society she had discovered as a teenager , when she would slip surreptitiously out of the icy silence of Abercorn Avenue , where the clock ticked relentlessly on the kitchen wall , where Liz propped her textbooks against the Peek Frean biscuit tin on the kitchen table , where her mother sat in the front room listening to the radio , cutting up newspapers ; she would let herself quietly out of the back door and creep down the passage , past the outside lav , through the back gate , round the corner , and then she would run for it , along Hilldrop Crescent , down The Grove , up Brindleford Drive , and across the main road at the lights to Victoria Street , where Cliff and Steve and their sister Marge lived . |
| 30 | Are we taking about the form on the related documents |