Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [v-ing] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The first part , on the promenade , was not so bad as the last lap up into the town centre where all the local talent was collected round the cinema and amusement arcade or merely loafing about the pavement . |
| 4 | After the logo 's dramatic unveiling on the stage of the New Athenaeum Theatre , there was a ripple of applause — and much muttering about the design , which may lose impact when it is scaled down for reproduction in newspapers and magazines . |
| 5 | I dabbed a little on each puckered mouth to further shouts of laughter and much dancing about the room . |
| 6 | Prince Charles had been talking and gently agitating about the subject for many years . |
| 7 | The man who shared her apartment was surly , unfriendly , and always complaining about the lifts and the garbage disposal . |
| 8 | Whether nature does or does not do the same thing is always tantalising , and sometimes revealing about the principles and mechanisms underlying the creation of structures . |
| 9 | Maggie had dealt with that as best she could , taking it quietly and never complaining about the minor injustices which a teacher can inflict — work returned because of untidiness , petty sarcasms , rigorous enforcement of minor school rules . |