Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [v-ing] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not talking about hunting being given the name of culling , I am talking about situations where culling does really look to be the only way to save the vegetation . |
| 2 | But in the kind of conversation recorded here , I am not talking about overuse . |
| 3 | It gives me great satisfaction but we are not shouting about being second for what might be a few hours . ’ |
| 4 | But we are not talking about faith — which must necessarily be an intensely private , intensely subjective affair . |
| 5 | What we need to understand is that we are not talking about career , but about serving Christ and finding the most effective means to win the lost . |
| 6 | No one can achieve anything without the help of others and we are not talking about militancy , more the desire to support people in their quest to put Darlington to rights . |
| 7 | Well , you 're basically talking about power relationships and that goes into almost every aspect of one 's life and one 's relationship , and I suppose you 're asking men to look at themselves differently too . |
| 8 | You know , I , I maintain if you 're gardening you 're thinking about work , or you 're not thinking about watering or whatever you should be doing in gardening . |
| 9 | Or you might go to a sports club and meet some colleagues , or some friends there , and while you 're training together you 're talking , about other things , you see and again , you ca n't be , you 're not thinking about work . |
| 10 | They 're not learning about religion where they do n't believe in blood transfusions etcetera etcetera seven or eight year old . |
| 11 | But we 're not talking about legality , we 're talking about morality . ’ |
| 12 | Right keep notes , er we 're not talking about pigeon toes , we 're talking about club foot , which is a real problem , if we do n't treat this the baby when it grows up it 's gon na have difficulties in walking . |
| 13 | Do n't do n't worry yeah do n't worry about this erm you 're still thinking about integration . |
| 14 | They 're forever quarrelling about food and which way to go . |
| 15 | But we 're actually talking about displacement , just so that you feel more comfortable with it , cos there are other things coming up to make you feel less comfortable you see . |
| 16 | At one crowded meeting a British soldier got up and said , ‘ Why is it that you Burmese are always talking about independence and self-government ? |
| 17 | These days we are always talking about safety as if being safe is a virtue . |
| 18 | Twentieth-century western feminists , however , are always arguing about class . |
| 19 | More than two years after the move from institution to ordinary housing , Elizabeth and Helen are still learning about community living and adjusting to its demands and possibilities . |
| 20 | If we were to have dialogue , if dialogue were to be opened between us and I am now talking about dialogue and not of debate , then erm it is only erm , I 'm certain that there would be a great deal to , to say to him from us on our part , and I am also sure that he will have a great deal to say . |
| 21 | It is important , then , to establish what linguists have had to say and are now saying about literacy . |
| 22 | There does n't seem to be a moment that goes by when I 'm not thinking about food . |
| 23 | I used to worry about nuclear power , and now I worry about pollution and dead dolphins — when I 'm not worrying about money . |
| 24 | I 'm not talking about pollution from deadly chemicals or refuse , but from a group of ‘ guided ’ teenagers who were shouting and screaming . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm not talking about cleverness , ’ said Lili , ‘ I said sense . ’ |
| 26 | And I 'm not talking about tennis here . |
| 27 | I 'm , I 'm not talking about VAT now , I 'm talking about local tax . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , I 'm not talking about command economies . |
| 29 | I 'm not talking about Japanese , of course ; nobody expects you to understand that . |
| 30 | Is that every le , I 'm not talking about homework , I 'm talking about every lesson that you have as science where do they keep their books ? |