Example sentences of "[verb] on about the [noun] " 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 | Goin' on about the seats all the time she was . |
| 3 | ‘ One of her lines … as the king … goes on about the Gods not suffering the unpiety of his sister to go unpunished . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The second paragraph goes on about the report to council Environmental Services Committee by the District Chief . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Like my hon. Friend the Member for Bosworth ( Mr. Tredinnick ) , I have personal views about some of those matters , but we should await the report , when we will have a little more to go on about the circumstances and how this could have happened . |
| 8 | No need to go on about the band in this preamble . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't want to go on about the amount or work — everybody works hard . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | When not banging on about the sins of Vin Garbutt , the shaggy-haired Teesside warbler responsible for Little Innocents and other anti-abortion songs , certain feminist folkies have taken to conducting vigilante patrols through Folk Roots magazine in search of new sources of offence . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Clarke writes a good deal more intelligently — and entertainingly — than many who prattle on about the future . |
| 14 | We wo n't be able to nod off as news presenters drone on about the world 's woes and mother-in-laws ring with the latest family crisis . |
| 15 | so , and then he was going on about the work he 's doing on the |
| 16 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 17 | Yeah , I got the impression when the TV commentators were going on about the Turks being in Europe for the last 10 years they were just looking for some excuse to explain th scum 's ineptitude . |
| 18 | Then the ginger kitten I hid in the garden shed and mother found it and there was a monumental scene and Helen called her a beast ; funny , I can hear it now , mother going on about the kitten and Helen suddenly exploding and mother 's face . |
| 19 | Everyone keeps going on about the Animal Farm |
| 20 | With everything going on about the Poll tax , it 's extremely easy for us to understand how they felt . |
| 21 | Isabel was going on about the boots . |
| 22 | He 's going on about the beach ! |
| 23 | He started going on about the life insurance . |
| 24 | She 's always going on about the way people behave nowadays . |
| 25 | Always going on about the Fate of the Graduate Wife and how she 's fed up being a cabbage — well as far as I 'm concerned I can not see the call for langwidge . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , when we were going on about the Universe and all the galaxies and the Big Bang , we talked about gravity forces — between the galaxies — trying to pull them together . |
| 27 | Because you were the one who kept going on about the need to keep it secret . |
| 28 | At a national level , there is a debate going on about the need for generic units to underpin those qualifications which are highly occupationally-specific so that , for example , skills in areas such as literacy , numeracy and communication can be promoted . |
| 29 | Dalglish , preparing for today 's clash at Coventry , said : ‘ There 's no point in going on about the League table while we are still in August . |
| 30 | ‘ She kept going on about the fox and coughing . ’ |