Example sentences of "they 're [v-ing] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | Yes , they , they 're talking about that person 's personality , and their personality is not something they can change . |
| 5 | And now they 're talking about freezing it ! |
| 6 | they 're talking about five offices as opposed to three . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And for a moment you do n't know whether they 're talking about this strange bodily posture or running a club . |
| 9 | But not the news they 're talking about this . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They 're talking about another round of early retirements . |