Example sentences of "[pers pn] [v-ing] about the " 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 | They left the hatch open , and we could hear them going about the barge , arguing with the bargemen . |
| 3 | Romany mimed them going about the boat , looking here and looking there . |
| 4 | And something brisk to take you bowling about the place . |
| 5 | But tell me , what are you doing about the spy camera ? ’ |
| 6 | What are you doing about the City Centre , Phyllis Starkey ? |
| 7 | ‘ Why are you asking about the headsail ? ’ she enquired , steering the conversation on to less painful ground . |
| 8 | I I was interested in you saying about the doom and gloom which is |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You know , the one whose driving-licence picture was in the paper , she 'd been shot , was n't she asking about the Schickerts ? |
| 11 | ‘ Are you talking about the children ? ’ |
| 12 | Are you talking about the words or the message ? |
| 13 | ‘ Were you talking about the famous Britches ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Are you talking about the Carlton or the Carlton Rooms ? |
| 16 | Are you talking about the , the winding forward of bill two pay two ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Were you scrabbling about the floor ? |
| 19 | ‘ Are you thinking about the fact that we might have been murdered ourselves last night ? ’ |
| 20 | Listening to them complaining about the usual stuff ! |
| 21 | Are we taking about the form on the related documents |
| 22 | Were we talking about the same sister I wondered . |
| 23 | That 's , this , are we talking about the , the late fifties ? |
| 24 | Because we talking about the collators department , are those the one 's intelligent ? |
| 25 | We talking about the same Dicky ? |
| 26 | Well I see him walking about the other day ! |
| 27 | ‘ I remember him going about the village , collecting the details , the birth certificates and things . |
| 28 | Her sisters-in-law excluded her from their gossip ; the servants behaved towards her with greater formality and at least once a day she was summoned to Dona Marguerita 's room to sit with her and listen to her talking about the family 's history and her hopes and ambitions for João . |
| 29 | Not that it stopped her talking about the Jesus who was the centre of her life . |
| 30 | Isabel stopped her pacing about the room and looked at de Raimes in surprise . |