Example sentences of "they [be] [v-ing] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you run the risk that they are thinking about one thing while you are pursuing another ; |
| 2 | One possible interpretation is that , since they are talking about different historical periods , the nature of family relationships in Lancashire had actually changed between the middle of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth ( Lewis , 1984 , p. 54 ) . |
| 3 | so many exams and have more course work and now they 're complaining about cos it 's a hundred per cent course work in English , they 're complaining about that and they want to make it and a maximum thirty per cent course work within two years , or something something really stupid like that ! |
| 4 | ‘ You 'll find the only people who complain are usually gentlemen with very little hair , ’ adds Barbara , herself a young-at-heart 57 , ‘ and they 're complaining about these young people with lots of hair ! |
| 5 | But that but that 's tha that 's defeating the whole object of the exercise of getting you know more foot patrols , because it 's foot patrols that they 're talking about all the time , if you give 'em a car you go back to the you know the fire brigade syndrome when it was zip zip zip |
| 6 | Yes , they , they 're talking about that person 's personality , and their personality is not something they can change . |
| 7 | And now they 're talking about freezing it ! |
| 8 | they 're talking about five offices as opposed to three . |
| 9 | So I mean and if a and surely if they 're talking about actual support in terms of food and money I mean can they really . |
| 10 | And for a moment you do n't know whether they 're talking about this strange bodily posture or running a club . |
| 11 | But not the news they 're talking about this . |
| 12 | Add positive three , see this thing of using the same symbol for add and for positive is very confusing , very confusing , it 's as though , you know you 're speaking a different language where one word has about fifteen different meanings and you ca n't understand what they 're talking about most of the time . |
| 13 | We have tried to list the connections existing across contributions in this discourse fragment to emphasise the ways speakers make what they 're talking about fit into a framework which represents what we ( as discourse participants ) are talking about in conversational discourse . |
| 14 | They 're talking about another round of early retirements . |
| 15 | At the very moment when they were writing about these problems , Marx and Engels were writing the seminal texts in which the political solutions were expounded . |
| 16 | And er really er they themselves thought exactly the same like , but they were talking about other people telling them you know that they could n't get this far but they did . |
| 17 | No blinking Sam goes to me , cos we were , we were , we turned Arachnophobia off because people needed the toilet and erm there was Songs of Praise or , you know , something like that and they were talking about all this terrorism , somebody said oh I 'm glad you did n't go to London said but I did and she goes oh no you did n't did you ? worried about me going to London |
| 18 | One of the mightiest warlords in the history of existence , and they were talking about bloody cats ! |
| 19 | I realized that they were talking about some poems of Emily 's . |
| 20 | The key to this paradox is that they were talking about different kinds of capitalists . |
| 21 | Tempting as this comparison is , however , it is not quite fair ; they were talking about different things . |
| 22 | the terms they were talking about ten years ago . |
| 23 | But they were talking about forty years or so |
| 24 | My father had er , horses at that time and my uncle out at Holt , he had some horses they were talking about this one day and uncles would say well a horse did n't work nearly as hard with that road 's were nice and solid . |