Example sentences of "been [v-ing] about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope councillor has n't been puzzling about this question because I think she should have had adequate warning erm the cycling part of working party was agreed by city board on the ninth of on the seventh of December is to come to an end and such work has er relates to cycling within a new transport working party . |
| 2 | In general , we have been writing about those melodies which are complete and have a well-defined entirety . |
| 3 | Looking at the sorts of things that Paul writes about as well , you 'll see that there is a change in material ; up to now , he has been writing about Christian doctrine . |
| 4 | Lately , I 've been wondering about this theory . |
| 5 | With hips at 44.5 inches and thighs at 25 inches , it was no wonder Rudolph had been complaining about excess baggage . |
| 6 | To accept what I have been saying about epistemic appearances is to accept that our visual experience does somehow involve a judgement about what we are looking at , whether in our experience of works of art or in ordinary visual experience . |
| 7 | This is what some of our customers have been saying about environmental Service staff recently : |
| 8 | It 's lovely to receive your letters — the post has been taking about 11–14 days to get here and most of the letters appear to have been opened , but have arrived safely nevertheless . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I 've been reading about these waves . ’ |
| 10 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
| 11 | Prior to extract ( 11 ) , the participants , L ( female , 20+ , unmarried , Edinburgh-resident , and M ( female , 30+ , married with young children , Edinburgh-resident ) , have been talking about recent improvements to old buildings in different areas in Edinburgh . |
| 12 | At the moment everyone has been talking about other people behind people 's backs yeah Shrimp , you got good English ! |
| 13 | At the moment everyone has been talking about other people behind people 's backs . |
| 14 | I I the retail 's not within what we 've been talking about this afternoon but on the other hand it does employ more people per hectare than any industry we 've been talking about as as far as as far as I understand it . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been involved in football for 24 years and we have been talking about this problem for all that time . |
| 16 | The aspects of energy that we have been talking about this evening erm are part of your course , are they discussed in this form by the students taking your course ? |
| 17 | ‘ The only difference is that in Rome everybody has been talking about this game for three months . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've been talking about wonder-boy Elliot , ’ she guessed , spotting his name . |
| 19 | I have been thinking about that riddle . |
| 20 | But I 've been thinking about next week . |
| 21 | ‘ Doctor , I 've been thinking about this planet . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been thinking about this time muddle , Cassie . |
| 23 | I 've been thinking about these requests for miracles . |
| 24 | I 've been thinking about these blinds for such a long time . |
| 25 | Enough statistics have been circulating about this venture to sink the Titanic . |