Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [v-ing] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am talking about middle-class , well-to-do men : traders , businessmen … bankers like him ! ’ |
| 2 | Naturally this depends on the type of area and I am talking about hilly rural areas like this one . |
| 3 | I 'm thinking about black people as well as Antigua and Great Britain and , lastly , myself . |
| 4 | Anyway , just at present I 'm thinking about disembodied laughter . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm phoning about little Emma erm I do n't know if you 've seen the Evening Mail today erm there 's a picture of Emma and her er young sister er Marianne , I presume it was taken at the school . |
| 6 | Right he then went to the pulpit and he said that he was gon na preach about Lazarus actually but he 's a quiet fellow and he shouted at the top of his voice I 'm speaking about satanic bondage ! |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm talking about normal people , ’ he said scathingly . |
| 8 | I 'm talking about real men , and real horses . |
| 9 | I 'm talking about new staff |
| 10 | I 'm talking about inside bells now . |
| 11 | Imagine now communication I 'm talking about not only through letter and telephone I 'm talking about total communication . |
| 12 | I FELL in love with jazz even before I fell in love with wine — I 'm talking about great , improvised , live jazz and , of course , great bottles of wine ; both darned hard to describe , poignantly ephemeral and profoundly moving experiences . |
| 13 | I want to turn this right round because a couple of people have mentioned guilt and er I I suspect that one of the reasons that women are a bit worried about talking about depression or or campaigning for changes in policy , or more funding , or or whatever , is that for a long time women have been thought of as the weaker sex , more emotional , more nervous , by a , a a male establishment , I 'm talking about past centuries , is n't there a case for saying there 's actually we have a right to be depressed , I mean , obviously it 's normal , ninety three of you get depressed from time to time , the majority of you do n't think you clinically depressive if it is , if it 's normal to be depressed should n't the services to cope with depression , if we need outside help , be there and there 's no shame in it ? |
| 14 | I 'm talking about cold sausages , tidying up after the kids , and a school activity day . |
| 15 | Yes , we do go for qualified staff , er , I 'm talking about social work field staff now , er , wherever possible we would go for that . |
| 16 | I 'm , I 'm not talking about VAT now , I 'm talking about local tax . |
| 17 | I was thinking about black holes as I got into bed one night in 1970 , shortly after the birth of my daughter Lucy . |
| 18 | I was thinking about certain techniques like the single-handed arpeggios on Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing . |
| 19 | I was talking about comparative , where some er situations and all this , that and the next thing , right , I mean one that , quite a , quite a useful phrase what you say is , is n't that true that , no you might not like that phrase , right , but you can take phrases like that and you can think to yourself can I , can I , right . |
| 20 | ‘ So funny , I was dreaming about Tantamount Hill and those Saturday balls . |
| 21 | So it 's going over the same ground but from the different er different emphasis because clearly my mistake last week was to try and cram in too much and to erm assume that what I was saying about modern sex theory was erm self-evident . |
| 22 | For example , certain things conspire to give academic register connotations of " seriousness " : you are being assessed on your writing ( a serious matter ) and you are writing about important things , such as culture ( a serious topic ) . |
| 23 | The reason why this happens is that you are thinking about other issues at the time . |
| 24 | Because you are talking about net migration flows . |
| 25 | ‘ Frozen and chilled pasta comes into its own when you are talking about filled pasta , especially individually quick-frozen products . |
| 26 | Yes , because you 're thinking about other things . |
| 27 | Well , as is with everything when you 're talking about changing things , women really have to get themselves organized , nobody 's going to give it to them . |
| 28 | You 're talking about small financial change across Oxfordshire . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , if you 're talking about masterful , ’ the blonde said vaguely . |
| 30 | I mean you 're talking , you 're talking about old middle class rather staid people . |