Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , she expected he would still be sulking about the break-up of his band . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | Maybe they think they can get the riders a bit cheaper or , you know , some of the boys might be panicking about a team spot somewhere but erm you know , I think it 's just the way that erm the way the world 's going at the moment and erm you know , I 'm certainly not erm too worried about erm you know , things at the moment really . |
| 4 | She asked him whether he would see the film and ‘ issue a statement about it both to encourage anxious parents and to ensure that the Church was seen to be caring about the matter ’ . |
| 5 | You may well be wondering about the relevance of this technical detail on orbits , sensors and electromagnetic energy to geography . |
| 6 | When he would return , the two would feel even closer than before the quarrel and they would soon be moving about the yard together , chatting away . |
| 7 | The women pointed out that many of the most able graduates were women and that it was shortsighted of the establishment simultaneously to be moaning about the lack of people at the top and disenfranchising half of medical graduates . |
| 8 | They were rather taken aback when they realised they would be learning about the way the planning system operates ! |
| 9 | They seemed to be talking about a pop star called Sid Vicious . |
| 10 | ‘ It never occurred to me that you might be talking about a postponement . ’ |
| 11 | Moreton councillor Ken Hemsley said : ‘ I am just concerned that people answering 999 calls may not understand a local dialect and they may be talking about a place which the person they are speaking to will never have heard of . |
| 12 | But as Shaffer remembers : ‘ He could be talking about a death and get himself very worked up about what he was saying , very passionate about whatever made him worried or angry . |
| 13 | . At twenty five to seven , just after the six thirty news sequence , we 're gon na be talking about a report in the latest issue of She magazine . |
| 14 | Quite frankly My Lords , if there are forty-one constabularies throughout the c country e excluding the Metropolitan Police and the City of London Police , any for instance fifty people were a applied and they may well apply because plenty of people have already done so , you would be talking about a list of some two thousand people it 's quite impossible to think that my Honourable Friend would know all these two thousand people therefore carefully select party hats who might themselves not actually have applied anyhow . |
| 15 | Erm I think Professor Lock appears to be talking about a site specific proposal . |
| 16 | John Farrant will be talking about the development of Brighton over the past three hundred years and how patterns of trade and commerce have tended to repeat themselves . |
| 17 | We shall be taking a look at the Media Services Unit at the university that has provided the technical services for producing these programmes , and also we shall be talking about the response to the programmes themselves . |
| 18 | Erm but we 'll be talking about the Ministry of the Church . |
| 19 | We happened to be talking about the diary habit which , nowadays , seems to be largely confined to politicians . ’ |
| 20 | Increasingly , we seem to be talking about the unity and meaningfulness of discourse in terms of conformity : to another person 's view of the world , to shared stereotypes . |
| 21 | Asa Briggs will be speaking again in our concluding programme in this series , but next Sunday John Rohl will be talking about the archivist 's role , and his work and discoveries concerning twentieth century Germany . |
| 22 | Kitty had that facility for slipping the knife in , even when on the surface she might only be talking about the weather . |
| 23 | Today we 'll be talking about the tale of a man who lives in a churchyard . |
| 24 | However , much demolition is done on a piece work or per day basis , and you might simply be talking about the loss of a day 's work or a day or two 's profit . |
| 25 | Suddenly everyone seems to be talking about the menopause so we thought that you 'd better hear what women really think . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | The other reason we claim so often to be arguing about a matter of principle is that there is so little substance in many arguments that a reference to principle is necessary in order to sustain the argument . |
| 28 | When they are supposed to be arguing about the rider or scrawling their name on the walls , they sit quietly down and start replying to fan letters , or in Solowka 's case , it 's off with the flat-cap and out with the calculator . |
| 29 | Is it really news that a couple on the brink of separation should be arguing about the custody of their children ? |
| 30 | In the series of sermons for Lent , you will be thinking about a variety of people , who are described in Hebrews chapter 11 as heroes of faith , and are presented there as examples for Christians to follow . |