Example sentences of "on about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The newspaper are going on and on and on about the problems that people have road and road . |
| 2 | Oh I thought you was on about the pie . |
| 3 | I will not go on about the statistics . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , when we were going on about the Universe and all the galaxies and the Big Bang , we talked about gravity forces — between the galaxies — trying to pull them together . |
| 5 | An advertising campaign that went on about the law of averages did n't seem to help when much of the press criticism rounded on the Escort as exactly a car for Mr Average . |
| 6 | ‘ One of her lines … as the king … goes on about the Gods not suffering the unpiety of his sister to go unpunished . |
| 7 | so , and then he was going on about the work he 's doing on the |
| 8 | The sight of the European Community 's civilised , like-minded nations bickering on about the pros and cons of more joint government , with ethnic war on their doorstep and a great deal to achieve across a newly opened continent , would seem absurd to any visiting Gulliver . |
| 9 | When you were talking earlier on about the bombs and the detonator coming in , where were they stored , at the docks or were they |
| 10 | I could however moan on about the likelihood of anyone ever wanting to listen to this collection straight through at one sitting , or that Miss Battle could have done rather more in the way of characterising each aria ( and her diction is also hardly crystal clear ) . |
| 11 | So , we bang on about the play and the staging and the big themes , and , if there 's any space left , then , as the chairman of Critics ' Forum wearily intones , ‘ I suppose we ought to say something about the performances . ’ |
| 12 | Everyone keeps going on about the Animal Farm |
| 13 | Mr Carter droned on about the United States not being strong any more and being too afraid of the Russian bear and being out-traded and so on . |
| 14 | Not the same as those you ranted on about the day we first met ? " |
| 15 | He started going on about the life insurance . |
| 16 | Then the ginger kitten I hid in the garden shed and mother found it and there was a monumental scene and Helen called her a beast ; funny , I can hear it now , mother going on about the kitten and Helen suddenly exploding and mother 's face . |
| 17 | That 's right yeah , for a little bit , I was on about the reference to er Embassy Service though |
| 18 | With everything going on about the Poll tax , it 's extremely easy for us to understand how they felt . |
| 19 | They go on and on about the nails . ’ |
| 20 | Always going on about the Fate of the Graduate Wife and how she 's fed up being a cabbage — well as far as I 'm concerned I can not see the call for langwidge . |
| 21 | Mr Evans 's voice boomed on about the things he had done when he was a boy — mostly earning money in his spare time to help his poor mother — but though Auntie Lou seemed to be listening , she was n't listening to him . |
| 22 | oh well whatever , no it was n't , they were on about the B B C |
| 23 | ‘ He 's just the same , ’ Maggie said and continued on about the nurses ' home while Sheila bit her tongue . |
| 24 | He 's going on about the beach ! |
| 25 | As cricket chairman Close raged on about the decision to sign West Indies batsman Richie Richardson instead of a genuine quickie he was told : ‘ You find one and we 'll sign him . |
| 26 | Like my hon. Friend the Member for Bosworth ( Mr. Tredinnick ) , I have personal views about some of those matters , but we should await the report , when we will have a little more to go on about the circumstances and how this could have happened . |
| 27 | We were talking earlier on about the N H S and the foundation of the N H S. |
| 28 | Nationally , few MPs think that they will gain much from chuntering on about the drains … but I just wonder if they are not wrong . |
| 29 | I wo n't go on about the England game — you know what happened — except to say it was crap being there . |
| 30 | She 's always going on about the way people behave nowadays . |