Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [be] [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may be bragging about myself though . |
| 2 | Wondered what woman , if any , I should be thinking about in five years ' time . ’ |
| 3 | I know I should be thinking about taking her to a mother-and-toddler group so she can meet people and make friends , but something keeps putting me off . |
| 4 | Because if we ca n't generalize then I , perhaps I should be talking about British foreign policy or Iranian foreign policy or South African foreign policy are there generalizations we can make and say well it is similar for all governments ? |
| 5 | ‘ Why , what did you think I might be thinking about ? ’ |
| 6 | I cringe when I hear those songs these days ; mind you , perhaps one day I 'll be cringing about the songs I 'm writing now … |
| 7 | Other wines difficult to beat at the price include three wonderfully good dry whites from Hungary that I 'll be writing about later . |
| 8 | Next month I 'll be writing about the 2×2 ribs . |
| 9 | She had just bought ( in anticipation of her legacy ) a new Sony portable ( ‘ I 'll be sitting about a lot when I get very big ’ . |
| 10 | In a month 's time , she decided , applying some pale lipstick , I 'll be laughing about all this . |
| 11 | Dammit , it 's the future of the European components business I 'll be talking about . ’ |
| 12 | . Now , at around twenty five minutes to seven , I 'll be talking about a fascinating report in She magazine , and it 's entitled How to Survive House Guests from Hell , and it 's a seasonal item , and of course we all know that er we , a lot of people er go to stay with friends and relatives over the Christmas period . |
| 13 | As I said I 'll be talking about this in the next couple of weeks in the lectures and I hope to cover various things we did n't have time to touch on . |
| 14 | Now in order to understand this and not to misunderstand terms , we 've got to unders the first thing we have to understand is what Darwin 's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection is all about and the problem with this , and in some ways this is analogous to the problem with Freud , and I 'll be talking about this later , is that er when Darwin put forward his Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection in eighteen fifty nine it was confused and misunderstood because of the ideas of other people like Herbert Spencer and the so-called Social Darwinists , who coined slogans like , for example , survival of the fittest . |
| 15 | For the next few months I shall be writing about the various accessories that are available for Silver punchcard machines . |
| 16 | Next month I shall be writing about the rib transfer carriage , another small accessory that not only does a good job but also helps that neck ache ! |
| 17 | " Next week I shall be writing about moorland walks and suggesting an itinerary that takes in the ever-attractive Tower Foin . " |
| 18 | Secondly , there 's an item in the management team tele-conference minute which are due to be confirmed today , the which I shall be querying about work in the office , out of office hours . |
| 19 | So , if you are a theologian , I shall be talking about two disciples tonight , and you are getting double value in the sermon . |
| 20 | Next week I shall be talking about physics , and I shall be asking similar questions to Professor Ken Smith . |
| 21 | erm And the reason I 've given you that one is that that was drawn in 1675 by David Loggen , and it 's a very , very accurate one , and it 's rather easier to see some of the places I shall be talking about , so I think it 's a nice one for you to have close up . |
| 22 | I will be thinking about this film all night . ’ |
| 23 | Even the least perceptive reader will also by now be aware that I will be talking about metaphor . |
| 24 | So if you intend to keep this fish you should be thinking about where you are going to put a rather large tank in the long term . |
| 25 | It 's right , it 's correct it is minus twelve but I could see you were really not very sure what you should be doing about that , that 's great , you 've found , you 've got that down to there , let's have a little look at the number line , zero , one , two , three and so on , minus one , minus two , minus three , minus four . |
| 26 | Perhaps she should be reading about infidelity instead of impiety . |
| 27 | And she asked herself why she should be thinking about those now , which seemed to bring forth other questions : Who was he ? |
| 28 | I kid you not , I had not a clue as to what she might be talking about . |
| 29 | ‘ It never occurred to me that you might be talking about a postponement . ’ |
| 30 | You 'll be weeping about Lucy when you 're fifty and fat . ’ |