Example sentences of "[be] [verb] about [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are going about it the proper way and er nevertheless it will be assessed and costed at the end . |
| 2 | So on one page , you 'll be reading about what Africans do in Upper Volta , and on the next page , you 'll be reading about what the ancient Aztecs did that is similar . |
| 3 | This is not the time to be thinking about what the chief instructor is going to think or say . |
| 4 | questions were being raised about what the police were doing , what they ought to be doing and how they ought to be organised and accountable . |
| 5 | And erm these things used to used to sort of wind the r the the the spring or the leather thong around th top and start it off to spinning you know and then you 'd keep whipping it like that and you could make these things jump into the air , in fact a friend of mine was telling me , we were talking about it the other day . |
| 6 | Long political screeds were attached about what the paper should be like , pleading justifications of position and talent . |
| 7 | One example of this " sham reading " is brought to our notice when we realise , on reaching the bottom of a page , that we have not been thinking about what the text means . |
| 8 | By the time we have finished his chapter called ‘ The Heavens ’ , we have not only been informed about what the shape of the Ptolemaic universe was like , and how the belief in astrology worked , and how much knowledge was in our sense ‘ scientific ’ and how much ‘ poetic ’ or ‘ mythological ’ . |
| 9 | Integrity becomes a political ideal when we make the same demand of the state or community taken to be a moral agent , when we insist that the state act on a single , coherent set of principles even when its citizens are divided about what the right principles of justice and fairness really are . |
| 10 | Nothing more was said about what the scope of review for administrative institutions and inferior courts actually was and no dichotomy was drawn between them . |
| 11 | But I was told about it the night before I was released ! |
| 12 | Perhaps I was going about it the wrong way . |
| 13 | Last night , very little was known about what the three men had been doing . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point , which is not very different from the point that I was making about what the governor of Brixton prison knew several months before those IRA terrorists broke out . |
| 15 | I was talking about it the other day and you go and it all comes , it hurts and , and it comes out and you ca n't even hold it down either cos it just comes in your mouth dribbles out the side . |
| 16 | Anyhow , he , he bakes bread and he was talking about it the other day and I said oh that 's lovely homemade bread . |