Example sentences of "[be] about it " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Right , and I 'll take a shufti round the wood while I 'm about it . |
| 32 | Those questions seem to me to be inexorably leading to ‘ And while I 'm about it , why do n't you clean your fingernails and wash your hair ? ’ |
| 33 | What the hell , though , while I 'm about it — the whole truth . |
| 34 | I fetch myself another gin while I 'm up and pour a bit in Mum 's tea while I 'm about it . |
| 35 | ‘ I 've now arranged to fly out and spend the last two weeks of his working trip with him as a kind of nosing-around holiday while I 'm about it , but the first two weeks … ’ |
| 36 | now this being about it being a permanent record could be positive or negative |
| 37 | Why , while they were about it , was n't she trying to kill him ? |
| 38 | It actually involved destroying erm , some of the product to just to indicate women were about it . |
| 39 | Your mother presumably , who forced you to do that , was happier than you were about it happening , and that 's what made you sad . |
| 40 | It will vaguely push to expand trade with South American countries , but that is about it . |
| 41 | I 'm in , and that 's all there is about it . ’ |
| 42 | And that is about it . |
| 43 | Lesley 's niece , Beverley Spencer , 18 , said : ‘ She is on a life support unit but you can talk to her and she can flicker her eyes in response but that is about it . |
| 44 | I look back on my time there with a lot of affection , but I feel that if a rock writer is doing his job properly , three years is about it . ’ |
| 45 | And that really I think is about it unless there are Interpretation of As much as I 'm going to . |
| 46 | I know a lot of people to say ‘ Hello ’ to , but that is about it . |
| 47 | I do n't know what it is about it , but I find I have the urge to sit here and enjoy it . |
| 48 | They know that the Opposition team consists of a television producer , a psychiatrist , a social anthropologist , a trade union official and a charity worker — and that is about it . |
| 49 | ‘ I 'll change a few names but that 's about it . |
| 50 | That 's about it . |
| 51 | That 's about it , ’ Moran said . |
| 52 | That 's about it . ’ |
| 53 | ‘ Promiscuous , public and semi-professional ’ , it said in one of Madame 's books about the lives of the great courtesans , and I think that 's about it . |
| 54 | I suppose one or two people have got off with each other on tour but that 's about it , ’ he said . |
| 55 | And that 's about it . |
| 56 | ‘ That 's about it , ’ said John le Grant . |
| 57 | That 's about it for this month . |
| 58 | Mick Taylor has a couple , as has Dave Plenn and there 's a tenor solo in there , but that 's about it — no bass solos anywhere ! |
| 59 | I now play that through a Trace Elliot acoustic amp via a GP16 processor and that 's about it . |
| 60 | ‘ Yes , that 's about it , ’ said Sarah . |