Example sentences of "[noun] had [be] [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Murray said one particular employee had been going about the depot under the influence of drugs . |
| 2 | Relations with America are on the mend after months in which the two countries had been arguing about the fate of nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil . |
| 3 | She wished that she could ask David what Anthony had been talking about , but she obviously could not . |
| 4 | Scathach had been telling about his first journey through the wood . |
| 5 | Speaker B had been talking about the radio she had in the 1930s and speaker A's first line here seems to continue within the temporal , locational and personal indices of the existing topic framework while introducing telephones . |
| 6 | Balmer had been thinking about the spectral lines from hydrogen . |
| 7 | He thought about what Suragai had been saying about the origins of mankind . |
| 8 | One of the guests had been talking about him . |
| 9 | He said , ‘ Do have a look at the price of some of the things in here , there 's even a knitting machine ’ and there for all to see was an Erka Twinbed Knitting Machine with carrying case and stand for 45 guineas , the very thing Grace Worrell had been asking about in the letter I had been reading only a few seconds before . |
| 10 | He had n't been paying much attention to what Throgmorton had been talking about on the way here , but he recalled his ears had caught the unpleasant words ‘ casting vote ’ , and ‘ your important role as president ’ . |
| 11 | With hips at 44.5 inches and thighs at 25 inches , it was no wonder Rudolph had been complaining about excess baggage . |
| 12 | Gran had been muttering about storms for days and she liked her to stay close at these times . |
| 13 | Jessamy had been thinking about it while she had been waiting for Julius to return with the blankets , and she thought she knew the answer . |
| 14 | Other people had been asking about Vecchi , too . |
| 15 | The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order . |
| 16 | When I asked the headmistress of a junior school my daughter had been attending about the racist remarks children at the school had been making her answer was well-meaning and typical : ‘ Asking them to say thank you and please or asking them not to swear is one thing but asking them not to say ‘ nigger ’ or ‘ wog ’ or ‘ black people stink ’ is quite another . |
| 17 | The woods were extensive and the two men had been walking about the property for over an hour . |
| 18 | Guy had been laughing about her , with his business partner ? |
| 19 | So with eight of the world 's top golfers within five shots of each other and eight different nationalities represented , the stage was set for the grandstand finish which Hammond Wilde had been dreaming about for the best part of a year . |
| 20 | He immediately saw what the ferrymaster had been talking about . |
| 21 | He was not sure that Jehan had been talking about the arrows , and remembering that Jehan was Burun 's grandson he wondered how much he knew , or had been told , about the plan to obtain Sidacai 's freedom . |
| 22 | Sachin Tendulkar came in to a reception whose volume and pitch tended to confirm what Bishen Bedi had been saying about his sex appeal , and there was the arresting sight of a 41-year-old bowler taking on two batsmen whose combined age was 42 . |
| 23 | Jim McCarron , the committee chairman , said yesterday that Dr Forwell 's report underlined what politicians had been saying about Glasgow 's health record for a long time . |
| 24 | The Tories had been talking about just such a move in opposition . |
| 25 | Night after sleepless night , her mother had been thinking about her , while Carolyn slept deep black sleeps and tried to keep her head empty . |
| 26 | When the young man was twenty he discovered that his mother had been boasting about how wonderful he was to all her friends . |