Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Happened to me once , ’ said the man sitting next to her , the one who had been so understanding about the malfunctioning photocopier . |
| 2 | The consequence of this is that we are constantly hypothesizing about the possible significance of each event , and often discovering that we are wrong . |
| 3 | There was something so moving about the whole experience . |
| 4 | She is interested in the primitive and the raw , both culturally and emotionally , but is endlessly discriminating about the tenacious way in which cultural forms , from cookery to high literature and music , establish themselves and persist . |
| 5 | Now , having started in that light , I may be going to disappoint you by saying that I 'm not in fact going to spend the next erm fifty minutes or so talking about the moral , political , philosophical implications of Darwinism . |
| 6 | She spent most of the next half hour or so talking about the extended holiday to Patagonia she was planning , in an extremely loud voice and with an enthusiasm that would probably have embarrassed the Argentinian Tourist Board . |
| 7 | And to hear members opposite talking about the dead hand of bureaucracy and all these Tebbitite notions that oh Europe , y'know , I mean , y'know , we 're going all the way back to ancient history here . |
| 8 | It is up to each one of us , he wrote , at every point in our lives , to decide how much order and how much disorder , how much discipline and how much freedom we need for the best realization of our project of the moment , even though that project may turn out to be flawed or even utterly mistaken in the short run , of course I am only talking about the short run , he wrote , in the long run , as I have already said , both success and failure are quite without meaning , the notion of meaning is quite without meaning . |
| 9 | I am only talking about the next hundred years , he wrote , perhaps even only the next decade . |
| 10 | Nothing is quite so telling about the peripheral position of foreigners in Japan as the sorry fate of these Westerners . |
| 11 | And as Old Mother Potts would n't allow men visitors , and Len did n't like dancing , it had been pretty dreary just walking about the wintry streets together . |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps not , but then I 'm not writing about the ancient world . |
| 13 | As they headed off on their Whitsun holiday , backbenchers were already muttering about the next shake-up . |
| 14 | If we say that characterising the topic framework is a means of making explicit some of the assumptions a speaker can make about his hearer 's knowledge , we are not talking about the total knowledge which the speaker believes he shares with his hearer . |
| 15 | And I am not talking about the drunken louts who beat their wives to death in a cellar . |
| 16 | I am not talking about the long run , he wrote . |
| 17 | I am not talking about the ongoing struggle towards black liberation , for there is much more to the emancipation of blacks than opposition to racism . |
| 18 | No , I 'm not talking about the lost things . |
| 19 | I 'm not talking about the bloody money . |
| 20 | Different thoughts , but one thought : Secord would suddenly explode to the interpreter , ‘ He 's still not talking about the god-damned hostage thing ! ’ ; or , in North 's exasperated words , ‘ if we 're really sincere about this whole friggin' thing … they ought to be exercising every possible amount of leverage they 've got to get those people out . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We 're not talking about the same girl . ’ |
| 22 | Oh you 're not talking about the ehm , you not , you not talking about the old club down , ehm . |
| 23 | We 're not talking about local authority homes , we are not talking about the voluntary sector , we are talking about the private homes which are run by private companies , or individuals , not on a voluntary basis , but on a profit basis . |
| 24 | Erm you know when you 're th we were just talking about the upper room , and erm and the great wind that was noise that was felt . |
| 25 | We are not then just talking about the French eating frogs ' legs and the English black pudding : we could eat frogs ' legs in England without affecting our social structure . |
| 26 | Well I think it 's either the experience that people have suffered or prejudice , but erm what really infuriates people I think is the fact that when you talk about gipsies you 're no longer talking about the romantic idea of a gipsy caravan , a red gipsy caravan with a horse and little children and dark-eyed girls , the erm conception is all wrong . |
| 27 | With a violent gesture , Katherine pulled her dress over her head , not bothering about the hideous bra her mother had bought her and forced her to wear to bind her small , pointed breasts . |
| 28 | She caught her breath , her palms damp just thinking about the powerful surges of emotion she 'd felt in his arms . |
| 29 | No I was just , I was just thinking about the same . |
| 30 | And in the long term , as Keynes might also have said , we will keep on worrying about the short term . |