Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they 're talking none about the , the economy and turn up before the end of the year , this , the , the , they 've been hanging on and on and on , and er slagging one another off all the time |
| 2 | We have been told nothing about the time of year , but for the purposes of the story we must assume that the rains have come , and the waters are high and fast , even though the women and children have got across safely enough . |
| 3 | As Burnett had been told nothing about the MI6 operation , he simply rejected Kotov 's complaint as a typical piece of Russian propaganda . |
| 4 | If he had been told nothing about the terms of his release , then probably it was Artai 's doing . |
| 5 | The other thing I was slightly concerned about it , if it 's a slight digression is the fact that the people at the Lyceum at the Assembly Hall last Saturday did n't know , had n't been told anything about the equipment |
| 6 | We are told nothing about the heir he instituted . |
| 7 | Maybe it was she who 'd been deluding herself about the state of his and Sandra 's relationship , and not the other way around . |
| 8 | It helps to solve our problems with Chrissie and Fred by making it clear that we are doing something about the food costs . |
| 9 | He might have been asking her about the traffic on the way in from the airport . |
| 10 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 11 | She seemed to be deciding something about the knitting in her lap . |
| 12 | I have no doubt that during the general election campaign the chairman of the Tory party will be spreading himself about a little bit , even though he has a tiny majority in Bath . |
| 13 | In plain English it is more important , in an administrative context , to be seen to be doing something about a politically generated agenda of problems than it is to examine critically the agenda itself . |
| 14 | They 're not gon na be saying anything about the dangers of bullying in the recruiting office . |
| 15 | We should be asking ourselves about the character of individuals which are being produced by the family forms that we have today and about law 's part in creating the domestic group . |
| 16 | In most literary essays your central concern will be to say something about a text ; and most of what you need will be there , in the text itself . |
| 17 | For example , I 'm careful about using certain words , like ‘ frequency ’ , with younger audiences , when I 'm telling them about the owl 's unusual ‘ lopsided ’ hearing . |
| 18 | He 'll be telling them about the pressures of being a superstar living in Hollywood ! |
| 19 | All I 'd say is that what you have to do Is to ask questions which although are apparently about what you want to do … where you want to get to should really be telling you about the person you 're — " |
| 20 | Subject presumes perceived er speaker as pr prestigious and authoritative and they perceived that there might be future interaction with him perceived his speech is more similar to their own than subjects who were told nothing about the speaker . |
| 21 | Complaints from the regional Propaganda Offices that neither press , nor radio , nor newsreels were reporting anything about the Führer any longer were to no avail . |
| 22 | What struck me was the way in which he seemed to have little difficulty not merely in coming down to my level but in entering into my feelings , as if I were telling him about the most natural matter in the world . |
| 23 | ‘ You were telling me about a party . ’ |
| 24 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 25 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 26 | And then er I were telling you about the er where the marshes was n't I . |
| 27 | Er I were telling you about the pianos , in one particular terrace you could just imagine it in , what , nineteen er twenty si no , twenty seven twenty eight , and you know things were bad , you talk about the thirties , the twenties were worse than that . |
| 28 | MODEL Sophia Berggren has been telling me about the unusual special effects used for her current Clairol hair colouring advertisement . |
| 29 | ‘ You have just been telling me about the steamy heat of New York in summer — and now you 're moaning about the cold weather here in London ! ’ |
| 30 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |