Example sentences of "[adv prt] [v-ing] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is all too easy to put off thinking about network security when dozens of other concerns are jostling for your attention . |
| 2 | If the House were to follow Palmerston blindly , they ‘ might as well give up talking about science and art and the beautification of the metropolis ’ . |
| 3 | She carried on talking about Dohti for around six months , and then it stopped . |
| 4 | It 's not that Shatov is somehow proved right and Mrs Virginsky wrong about new life and ( by implication ) God , but that the most natural hope begins to stir in the merely legal father 's heart ; so it would be pompous and artificial to go on talking about futurity , this is the future in the mind 's eye of one rejoicing man : shared , beautiful , fragile ; and the whole novel seems braced to tear itself free of the devils possessing it : |
| 5 | She wondered if it was all right for her to go on thinking about Baby . |