Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Do n't do n't worry yeah do n't worry about this erm you 're still thinking about integration . |
| 3 | They 're forever quarrelling about food and which way to go . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | These days we are always talking about safety as if being safe is a virtue . |
| 7 | Twentieth-century western feminists , however , are always arguing about class . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is important , then , to establish what linguists have had to say and are now saying about literacy . |
| 11 | I 've been mainly thinking about G.P. |
| 12 | I 'm more familiar with Asia so I 'm really talking about South Asia , South-East Asian countries , where the left is learning a lot from feminism , is changing a lot because of feminism . |
| 13 | You know I asked you to commit yourself , how much do you think it 's worth for me to do all this kind of work and he 's , you 're confused because you think I 'm actually talking about money and I take the weight off your shoulders by saying no it 's not actually money , it 's in the form of two or three names , people open minded like yourself , who I can sit down and discuss the whole situation with |
| 14 | I used to work for a record company as an office junior ages ago and they were always talking about music as being a packet of cornflakes : you just have to make it look right and make it so it 's easy to recognise and people will buy it . |
| 15 | And Oracle is already talking about Oracle 8 , which it expects to add object-oriented extensions to SQL and due to be announced in December of next year . |
| 16 | He is always talking about style : he has yet words of the absurdest that occur in every page , bland , delicate , dainty ; one blushes to read them . ’ |
| 17 | Because th th th th there , there 'd been statements from Mao until the end of nineteen forty five where he 's still talking about land to the tiller being some way off |
| 18 | And so , as in Winter Notes , Dostoevsky is really talking about pochvennost , his own brand of romantic conservatism , half history , half dream . |
| 19 | We broke windows accidentally , we were throwing erm in fact I was only talking about whip and top the other day , and erm er which was a a game we used to play . |
| 20 | Um I was just thinking about y'know |
| 21 | No she was just asking about christmas presents . |
| 22 | Yes , this , this actually , thank you Chairman , this actually is very much an example of , of what I was just saying about consultation . |
| 23 | Soldiers wiped out a village in south Sumatra 's Lampung province in 1989 because a zealot was thought to be preaching fundamentalism ( it has emerged he was just griping about land ownership ) . |
| 24 | Kevin was always talking about syntax because he was reading philosophy and this is the kind of thing philosophers talk about . |
| 25 | Miss Logan , embarrassed by Our Lord 's words to Nicodemus , was instead thinking about bitumen : was that not the material used by artists to blacken the shadows in their paintings ? |
| 26 | He was certainly thinking about fusion as a source of heat in the Earth . |
| 27 | ‘ I was actually thinking about suicide , ’ he confessed to Barbara . |