Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , we bang on about the play and the staging and the big themes , and , if there 's any space left , then , as the chairman of Critics ' Forum wearily intones , ‘ I suppose we ought to say something about the performances . ’ |
| 2 | Adam it was who made up the fires of a morning , when his mistress , who slept only fitfully at night , was already awake , Adam who crept noiselessly about the place , unnoticed , who must have seen them together last night outside the ballroom . |
| 3 | He gazed despairingly about the room . |
| 4 | The directors , who claimed they had not been consulted properly about the scheme , agreed to continue to run their buses to the estate for a trial period when the humps are introduced . |
| 5 | Cornucopia : rabbits , hunched and private , loping slowly about the lawn in the moonlight ; a green frog , gleaming and sparkling in the dewy sunlit grass as it wiggled along some compelling migratory path ; squirrels — quick flashes of ginger and grey in the treetops , a sudden glimpse of bright beady eyes ; a mythical fox — dusky shadow and sinister snowprints . |
| 6 | I think we had better try and influence that as churches not that we should about the suffering that goes on about the death that goes on , but I think we ought to give all this another dimension in churches . |
| 7 | The second paragraph goes on about the report to council Environmental Services Committee by the District Chief . |
| 8 | It may be that the poll tax was used as a pretext for anarchists , militants and other left-wing Labour Party fellow travellers to encourage riots and civil disorder , but many joined in for the kicks and cared little about the issue . |
| 9 | This is Atlantic water , which originates in the north Atlantic Ocean at a temperature of 2°C and salinity of 35 ppt , and cools almost to 0°C as it circulates slowly about the ocean basin ; its salinity remains high at 34.9ppt . |
| 10 | This will involve tone as much as doctrine , but he would be as ill-advised to go on about the Government 's intention of building a classless society , which it ca n't build anyway , as to adopt the easy belief that the climate of opinion can be left to look after itself while ministers get on with the practical business of government . |
| 11 | No need to go on about the band in this preamble . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't want to go on about the amount or work — everybody works hard . |
| 13 | ‘ The home market is n't demanding enough about the quality and finish compared with its European counterparts , ’ says York . |
| 14 | I felt that this was what Leslie would have wanted me to do , for he always cared greatly about the welfare of his men . |
| 15 | ‘ I had heard much about the Island , but could not have been prepared for the spectacle of some three hundred and eight square miles ’ says Val , ‘ I had five days in which to explore and photograph the unfamiliar panorama which stretched before me . ’ |
| 16 | Some regions and countries would have a comparative advantage , either because they were sparsely populated or because they cared less about the smell of a rubbish dump than their more pernickety neighbours did . |
| 17 | The act was widely seen as a direct challenge to local representational democracy , and revealed much about the capacity of labourism to respond to perceived threats to its authority . |
| 18 | Pink bolts were rattling randomly about the area . |
| 19 | He had given in about the purchase of the land , of course . |
| 20 | Red-figure turns out to combine the silhouette-principle , dear to vase-decorators for its strength on the curved surface , with the freedom of outline drawing ; and this encourages its practitioners to look outside the closed tradition of their craft to the work of painters on flat surfaces ( cf. fig. 45 , painted perhaps about the time of red-figure 's inception ) . |
| 21 | Their models have been evolving as circumstances have changed and explain much of what has been happening at the level of the industry , but say little about the behaviour of individual firms . |
| 22 | MOST modern books on Japan say little about the Japanese . |
| 23 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it is appalling that the Opposition whinge on about the failure of this country to export , when we know that what we need from both sides of the House is unanimity to help exporters and not complaints about them ? |
| 24 | As my darling new mother ( whom I loved ) moved radiantly about the room introducing Derek , who had just directed Equus at the Contact Theatre , to Bryan , who was a freelance journalist specializing in film , or Karen , who was a secretary at a literary agency , to Robert , who was a designer ; as she spoke of the new Dylan album and what Riverside Studios was doing , I saw she wanted to scour that suburban stigma right off her body . |
| 25 | He rose and wandered nervously about the music room . |
| 26 | He concludes that ‘ the people who should know most about the problem often do n't recognise it ’ . |
| 27 | Angela got up my nose as usual on this point over lunch , banging on about the importance of seeing that Ministers were properly informed and by the right people . |
| 28 | He writes little about the lifestyle of the people but lists many of their occupations . |
| 29 | He writes little about the lifestyle of the people but lists many of their occupations . |
| 30 | Frodo is a good choice for Ring bearer because he seems to worry less about the possibility of using it himself . |