Example sentences of "been [v-ing] about [art] [noun sg] " 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 | Women GPs have been complaining about the breast screening programmes . |
| 8 | There they would have been complaining about the weather , the European Commission 's new fishing controls and the imminence of bankruptcy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ You see , I 've been learning about the city . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | Now there are occasionally criticisms from members that there is too much concentration on the elite end of sport in the Sports Federation in this instance the R Y A but what is important about the is an effort to produce a very high standard as a finished product so to speak to go to the Olympics but it also helps to concentrate minds on the bit that is missing before and help to recycle everybody 's concentration into the training area and Rod has just been talking about the year of youth and of course it follows on very naturally in a post- olympic year to launch that year of youth . |
| 21 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 22 | Now let me push on a bit and erm I wo n't ask you to write this down , but when we , we 've been talking about the state now what are the characteristics of the state ? |
| 23 | The two have been talking about the refurbishment since 1984 . |
| 24 | A man whose house was twice hit by lightning in a fortnight has been talking about the experience , which bookmakers say is a two-billion-to one-chance … |
| 25 | The governor 's thing is coming about quite useful tonight because we 've been talking about the law as regards governors and parents ' rights and what you 're supposed to ask parents |
| 26 | She had been talking about the rumble with the Daughters of the American Revolution , playing with Seth 's glasses , putting them on and taking them off . |
| 27 | The victim of a vicious assault has been talking about the attack which left him unconscious and with a broken jaw . |
| 28 | People have been talking about the need for a ‘ killer application ’ and this is it . ’ |
| 29 | Speaker B had been talking about the radio she had in the 1930s and speaker A's first line here seems to continue within the temporal , locational and personal indices of the existing topic framework while introducing telephones . |
| 30 | They had not been talking about the Dane , but she felt disinclined to revert to a discussion about the ease with which Vitor could persuade her to go to bed with him . |