Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] about [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woods were extensive and the two men had been walking about the property for over an hour . |
| 2 | Suddenly the penny dropped , and Meredith knew why he 'd been prowling about the airport like an angry lion . |
| 3 | He 's been bouncing about the office all day like a rubber ball . ’ |
| 4 | Footnote : NSS readers have apparently been enquiring about the welfare of my cat , Euclid , who , as I reported last week , went missing after the earthquake . |
| 5 | Hector , who had been gambolling about the porch , slunk in behind her , depressed by the angry voices . |
| 6 | Murray said one particular employee had been going about the depot under the influence of drugs . |
| 7 | Although doubts may have been growing about the Woodvilles ' ultimate intentions , there are no signs that anyone else was contemplating direct action against them — or that the family had yet done anything to warrant it . |
| 8 | Although doubts may have been growing about the Woodvilles ' ultimate intentions , there are no signs that anyone else was contemplating direct action against them — or that the family had yet done anything to warrant it . |
| 9 | Women GPs have been complaining about the breast screening programmes . |
| 10 | There they would have been complaining about the weather , the European Commission 's new fishing controls and the imminence of bankruptcy . |
| 11 | I 've listened to a lot of interest to the people who 've been commenting about the future and the schools and the young children coming in . |
| 12 | The Princess of Wales has been speaking about the problems faced by people caring for loved ones who have suffered brain damage . |
| 13 | Hunter Howerton , an American secret service agent , has been reminiscing about the days when counterfeiting was a specialist art form . |
| 14 | When I asked the headmistress of a junior school my daughter had been attending about the racist remarks children at the school had been making her answer was well-meaning and typical : ‘ Asking them to say thank you and please or asking them not to swear is one thing but asking them not to say ‘ nigger ’ or ‘ wog ’ or ‘ black people stink ’ is quite another . |
| 15 | Erm what this is really about , I think we all recognise this is the erm purchaser aim to increase their leverage in the contract situation as against the providers on the other side of contract and in fact , I think we ought to tie this very much more in with what this authority has been saying about the proposals of the trust on the provider side because I think that this is an argument against the whole district N H S trusts that we 're getting , but it is encouraging the situation in which health authorities have purchasers on the other side of the contract are going to want to band together and merge to create a larger block in which to negotiate with their whole trust providers , I think this is a a very dangerous situation and think we needed to tie the two together as an argument there . |
| 16 | He thought about what Suragai had been saying about the origins of mankind . |
| 17 | We 're just hearing what Stan 's been saying about the way the Tourist Boards are erm classifying hotels and trying to assist us , the consumer , I mean how do you view it ? |
| 18 | What I 've just been saying about the importance of time and movement in Proust 's novel give rise I think to a further question . |
| 19 | Hugh , who had been reading about the dangers of having a smoker as a cohabitee , waved his handkerchief through the air and moved to the edge of the terrace . |
| 20 | On the boat , I had been reading about the shooting of Fergal Caraher at the South Armagh checkpoint at Cullyhanna and now , in the darkness , as details of the story flooded back , I decided against pressing the buzzer . |
| 21 | ‘ You see , I 've been learning about the city . |
| 22 | You may feel that we have been exaggerating about the goodies we like to consume causing us shape and health problems . |
| 23 | Relations with America are on the mend after months in which the two countries had been arguing about the fate of nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil . |
| 24 | So far we have been talking about the flow of information from the company , but It can be equally important for management to receive information on how the world is thinking about the company and its activities , about rival companies and about the industry in which it operates . |
| 25 | Hope smiled to himself : the smile broadened , and to disguise his true feelings he turned the smile on Mr Crump ; who was greatly encouraged as he had been talking about the slave trade on which much of his father 's great founding fortune had been based . |
| 26 | He was not sure that Jehan had been talking about the arrows , and remembering that Jehan was Burun 's grandson he wondered how much he knew , or had been told , about the plan to obtain Sidacai 's freedom . |
| 27 | Yet it was from Samsova , says Cohan , that the idea for A Midsummer Night 's Dream originally came : ‘ We had been talking about the company doing Forrest , one of my earlier works , when Galina mentioned The Dream . |
| 28 | But something I would like to say , which no-one has touched on at all ; we 've all been talking about the laws that affect women and equal opportunities , and no-one has mentioned anything about the horrendous hours that are worked in parliament making it not impossible , but extremely difficult for women to become politicians working in parliament to be the people who make the laws , to be the people who can actually affect women 's roles in society erm everyone seems to accept the fact that our own parliament , totally dominated by men , and the sort of hours that only men can work , making it extremely difficult for women . |
| 29 | On our side it 's , you know , do n't believe everything , anything , sorry not everything but anything you read in the papers , and yet , at the same time , every national newspaper on a Saturday night at about eleven-thirty gets a phone , series of phone-calls all saying , ‘ Please settle this argument for us we just been talking about the winner of the F A Cup Final in nineteen forty-three ’ or something , and that , you know , and , so we 've got the public out there saying ‘ Do n't believe what you read in the newspapers ’ yet , ‘ Settle our arguments . ’ |
| 30 | The RAF crews who are flying aid into Bosnia have been talking about the dangers they face . |