Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is one other point I 'd just like because yo you 've been on about Labour controlled Councils . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , you 're on about that again ? |
| 3 | Well , this , you know we 're on about this money |
| 4 | And although Times sales are up about one hundred thousand in a month , it does n't seem to have had a big impact on the Independent . |
| 5 | No , I du n no what I 'm on about either . |
| 6 | I 'm not on about houses I 'm on about main buildings like St Paul 's an' all that |
| 7 | erm I 'm on about big tins . |
| 8 | When you were on about that love , what pa was saying about , you know , like every night , that our kids , when , they had their pyjamas on , and they 're like , to get hold , I 'm lying watching television , I 'm usually falling asleep , but I put the kids , you know . |
| 9 | God you 'd 've laughed they were on about that as well at same time and he says to Steve what do you reckon to idea , he says it does n't sound bad , he says what do you reckon to idea as I says no . |
| 10 | I were on about that today , I ca n't remember who I talked to . |
| 11 | they were on about that they ship them abroad and th , they were interviewing a lad in London he said oh , he used to get up in the morning and er go down to the phone box and phone this contact they know and he 'd tell you what cars you wanted pinching this day and they pinch them to order ! |
| 12 | I 'm not saying that one cos that 's what we were on about earlier |
| 13 | I , he asked me the one , you know , we were on about this morning , the only one we looked at , fifty miles an hour and he asked me that one and I knew it . |
| 14 | erm the format for these is one of four lectures , in which we revise in the first lecture ideas that are round about sixth form level and then in two lectures following that we take the teacher through , very quickly , the kind of coverage that we give to the topic in the university . |
| 15 | It 's on about that ? |
| 16 | I do n't know the exact figure , a thousand pounds is r it 's round about that . |
| 17 | Erm , so playgroups I feel need , erm , particularly for certain children , they need to find assisted places of some sort , because say it 's one eighty a session , and they need several sessions a week , if they 're to benefit from it , and one eighty or one seventy or whatever the cost is , which I think is round about that figure , erm , is not something that a family normally would have priority , the , the kind of family who has to have erm , needs , special needs anyway themselves . |
| 18 | It 's not an exact ten minutes , it 's not an exact six hundred seconds , but what it is , is round about that period of time , after about ten minutes , what you do is you switch off and you go and do something else . |
| 19 | That 's what he said , and he kept on saying he had only four thousand five hundred pounds or something , that 's all the money he had , he was on about that all the time . |
| 20 | Some of it was on about that man there , face got her to stay the night then he was gon na watch it on telly in the er lounge . |
| 21 | No , oh Alison my mate was on about that . |
| 22 | Yeah he would of been cos he was , he was , he was on about that , erm the |
| 23 | They was on about this and er they was on about that . |
| 24 | Well that 's what she was on about that , and and they was they were going |
| 25 | land up , up there , it took , it took put the bill in , it 's next , it 's next , we need this next two or three bloody month and I was on about this and I was on about that ev it 's possible this is what a lot of them going and getting , you do n't want it |
| 26 | but erm he was on about certain aspects that he picked up from her , but having been in gypsy caravans round here , as when they were on Line Brook you see we were always at Line Brook for one reason or another |
| 27 | She was on about general conversation , you should have it on the whole time . |
| 28 | Ah , this was what he was on about last night . |
| 29 | We was on about those the other day cos now they 're so tiny |
| 30 | Em , much earlier you was on about this erm , erm , television licences , er , be it , an another extra twenty pound being added to any , another set over the top of what you 've got . |