Example sentences of "[be] [verb] about one " in BNC.
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| 1 | I now say : that to talk about perceived-as appearances , and to talk about what , on looking at things , listening to them , and so on , we would believe about them if we had no reason to think otherwise , are to talk about one and the same thing . |
| 2 | Manifestly you think you 're , you 're , you 're thinking about one school , whereas in reality you 're thinking about quite a different one . |
| 3 | The mains are buried about one metre below ground level so they do not freeze up , and outside each house they are tapped by a connecting pipe fitted with a stop-cock . |
| 4 | I want to get the now constantly recurring image or memory of the scraggy sheep huddled together at night in the bus shelter off the top of my mind : it is disconcerting to be writing about one thing and yet be presented while doing so with quite another set of pictures . |
| 5 | like , when she gets there she 's gon na be panicking about one thing and another int she , I think . |
| 6 | Nantes will be showing about one hundred works , many never shown previously outside Russia , and will be the most significant survey of this subject in France since ‘ Paris-Moscow ’ at the Pompidou in 1979 . |
| 7 | A large aerogenerator programme is at present underway in the Netherlands where it is hoped that wind will be supplying about one quarter of Dutch electricity demand by the year 2000 . |
| 8 | Such a cabinet may contain a battery of fluorescent tubes , and samples should be held about one foot away from it . |
| 9 | With any organization that consists almost entirely of white males over 50 , you are talking about one particular view of the world , and that worries me . ’ |
| 10 | Rosa Maria Malet , Director of the Fundación Miró in Barcelona , declared : ‘ We are talking about one of the best collections of Mirós in the world , and even if some periods are not very well represented there are some works of very great importance in the evolution of the painter 's oeuvre ’ . |
| 11 | We are talking about one of the most upscale markets in the country . |
| 12 | Er however I I I can I really am talking about one area here |
| 13 | I thought we were talking about one man , Philippe Maurin ? ’ |
| 14 | So you run the risk that they are thinking about one thing while you are pursuing another ; |
| 15 | It increases their resting metabolic rate by about five percent engine is running about one twentieth faster all the time , so perhaps this is why it wears out quicker . |
| 16 | Here again the highlighted nouns are not marked for number in any way and the Japanese reader can only guess whether the writer is talking about one or several fingers and tattoos . |
| 17 | But this peedie fairy anyway , it was wandering about one day very disconsolate at the prospect and found a sparrow with a broken wing . |
| 18 | I was boasting about one of the sketches ( the one I liked best ) . |
| 19 | It was built about one hundred and twenty years ago as a small but sturdy bungalow . |
| 20 | Anyone listening to 606 on Radio 5 last saturday : can they enlarge on what the Leeds fan was saying about one of the managers at Elland Road — one Alan Roberts I think . |
| 21 | My marriage failed and I was doing about one job every six months — I was on the fringe of things . |
| 22 | And he was talking about one two three four stops . |