Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's been on about the Brownies ever since she was seven , the age at which Granny says girls can join . ’ |
| 2 | We keep the trees erm they 're on about the trees are mature well my suggestion is there 's a lot of councillors that are very mature and really they could do far better getting eleven spindly new younger councillors to make these decisions on behalf of all the public tax payers in Nottingham . |
| 3 | You 're on about the old King George ! |
| 4 | she says , I 'm on about the lady with the dark hair |
| 5 | but I 'm on about the Tuesday after , the Monday after is Easter Monday |
| 6 | This would be in about the 1880's . |
| 7 | Erm , first of all , what if the abuser and the abused are around about the same age ? |
| 8 | oh well whatever , no it was n't , they were on about the B B C |
| 9 | you know the other night you were on about the fish that you had for your tea |
| 10 | Now the Moors began to enter the gardens which were round about the town , and the watchman saw them and struck the bell . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's on about the gypsies . ’ |
| 12 | Er , the recommendation is on about the fourth |
| 13 | No , it 's around about the off in n it ? |
| 14 | on the basis of a hundred per hundred thousand square feet to which you 'd have to add obviously a sort of surrounding area from the square footage used for a distribution warehouse , it looks as though it 's around about the thirteen |
| 15 | An aureus of Commodus — that 's round about the end of the second century AD . ’ |
| 16 | And say he 's round about the fortyish age and we spoke to him last week and I said you got a job yet ? |
| 17 | It 's round about it 's round about the same . |
| 18 | Anyway erm so erm you sometimes also find with family situations , let's suppose in some situations you have some you have a daughter in the household who 's being abused by say the father or step-father , maybe if there 's a brother once he gets old enough to start becoming interested in sex , in some cases , although he 's round about the same age as his sister , can be um as it were inducted into the into the cycle of abuse erm can actually start participating when the dynamic 's already there . |
| 19 | or 170 MN/m 2 which is round about the average for laboratory glassware , window panes , beer bottles and most of the other common forms of glass but was something between a fiftieth and a hundredth of what he reckoned it ought to be . |
| 20 | ‘ She was on about the end o' the world was nigh . |
| 21 | Hankies , me mam was on about the bogeys that they pull on the , back behind their bikes |
| 22 | That 's right yeah , for a little bit , I was on about the reference to er Embassy Service though |
| 23 | I was on about the necklace and you said it was a bit pricey |
| 24 | Oh I thought you was on about the pie . |
| 25 | I just saw the bit where he was on about the erm short sighted hedgehog . |
| 26 | It is traditionally accepted that it was in about the year 753 B.C. that a tribe of people settled near the Tiber on the Palatine Hill . |
| 27 | I 'd come across that and used that intravenously and thought well I really enjoy this and at the time the people who I knew were breaking into chemists and things , they used to come across very powerful substances , diamorphine , crystallised cocaine , morphine , that whole range of opiates and also amphetamines , black bombers and all the rest of it and then opium became more available on the streets and it was round about the same price as cannabis was at the time … . |
| 28 | Its heyday was round about the 1930s and not all that many pure examples of it are being published today , though there are enough to make it a possible type of book to write if you are strongly inclined this way . |
| 29 | My first offence was round about the age of eleven — shoplifting . |