Example sentences of "be [v-ing] about the " in BNC.
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1 | For the past 30 years Aegina has been producing about the best pistachios in the world . |
2 | The woods were extensive and the two men had been walking about the property for over an hour . |
3 | Suddenly the penny dropped , and Meredith knew why he 'd been prowling about the airport like an angry lion . |
4 | Although I 've been writing about the latest machines this month , I shall be including the older models in later articles . |
5 | ‘ Karen was telling me you are writing about the workforce rather than about the plant 's operational side . |
6 | He 's been bouncing about the office all day like a rubber ball . ’ |
7 | They are home for a week or a month ; the rest of the time they are wandering about the world . |
8 | And finally , erm again we 've been told that you either not remembering or you 're lying about the trousers . |
9 | Erm the funiculars they 're quibbling about the final payment . |
10 | ‘ We 're up in the air at the moment , ’ Bono concludes a line of conversation where we 're wondering about the direction and attitude of new music ( But can you trust it ? ) especially those current wagon hoppers such as Killing Joke ( J'accuse ! ) . |
11 | ‘ You 're calling about the cocaine shipment , ’ he said . |
12 | erm if you 're asking about the twinning off erm compared with spending on recreation , or on erm environmental health or something , well yes , of course , we do have to make choices . |
13 | Is that what you 're talking about now when you 're saying about the about erm you did n't know what to About being frightened you 've said a few times . |
14 | laugh , unfortunately you ca n't erm ca n't erm when I was giving this similar lecture two or three years ago , erm there was er a student in the class she put up her hand she said yes , she said that 's absolutely right she said , what you 're saying about the female does n't have to submit she said I used to work as a , as a stable maid at Newmarket at a stud farm and she said er you 've got ta have five people for er er to cover a mare . |
15 | You or it 's implied in what you 're saying about the er the burgeoning self-confidence that people become responsible for particular avenues . |
16 | I do n't therefore understand what you 're saying about the single star . |
17 | catalogue with Yeah , those three games are making they 're making games they 're saying about the twelve-hundred Renegade |
18 | ‘ You have just been telling me about the steamy heat of New York in summer — and now you 're moaning about the cold weather here in London ! ’ |
19 | And now you 're moaning about the diet ! |
20 | You will all find yellow sheets of paper if wondering why we 're reading about the . |
21 | Once again , we 're hearing about the phenomenon of the hemline that plummets in a recession . |
22 | When you 're arguing about the money to be spend on repairs , and for example the reason why we 've had to get strict budgetary control on the amount of money which is being spent on repairs , is because that money all comes out of tenants ' rents , and it 's basically a balance — if we want to increase the erm numbers and the standard of repairs that we offer as a landlord , then it has to be met by a further increase in rents , and we think we 've got the balance about right at the moment . |
23 | ‘ But it 's not Kinnock ; it 's Mr Gorbachev ; the world has come on to our ground and I find that a source of strength , because at least we know that we 're talking about the capitalist system . ’ |
24 | ‘ So we 're talking about the next century . ’ |
25 | Another valve might help ; after all , the Marshall has a couple and the Carvin is mob-handed with a total of nine — and I 'll say it again , we 're talking about the same price range here . |
26 | And he probably heard Hawaiian recordings , because we 're talking about the 1920s now , when phonograph records were getting to be a pretty widespread thing — the first real window on the rest of the musical world . |
27 | ‘ Yes , but you 're talking about the ghost of a dead person , are n't you ? |
28 | We 're talking about the multi-faceted Bleach here The band who , on their current tour , want to collect good food recipes to make up a nosh fanzine . |
29 | Yes , we 're talking about The Player , the hip Hollywood satire with star cameos oozing out if its smart , cynical celluloid . |
30 | We 're talking about the combined and simultaneous effect of a massive thermonuclear detonation , a volcanic eruption and an earthquake . |