Example sentences of "of [Wh det] i [be] [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kermode sees this change — which is at the heart of what I am writing about — as having radical implications for letters , comparable to such things as the advent , first of printing and then of cheap paper ; the bourgeoisie 's greater leisure for private reading ; and the abandonment by circulating libraries of the three-volume novel , which had been the favoured vehicle for fiction during much of the nineteenth century : Kermode exaggerates a little , I think ; nothing in the establishment of university English is as important as the innovations in culture and technology which established the book in its modern form . |
| 2 | ‘ But if you 're disillusioned now it 's partly because of what I 'm talking about ; the radicalism of Thatcher that seemed so fresh . |
| 3 | An example , er , of what I 'm talking about , which I think shows this very nicely , and is , is something I wanted to mention , because it 's important in itself , is the shifts in Freud 's views on anxiety . |
| 4 | Madam Deputy Speaker I was gon na give a very illustrative example of what I 'm talking about but perhaps I will allow the house to have that example on another occasion because I actually would prefer not to be er er er prevented from giving you the most vivid story of what I 'm talking about . |
| 5 | Madam Deputy Speaker I was gon na give a very illustrative example of what I 'm talking about but perhaps I will allow the house to have that example on another occasion because I actually would prefer not to be er er er prevented from giving you the most vivid story of what I 'm talking about . |
| 6 | If I can give you an example of what I 'm talking about , part of the information we receive of course is erm surface , weather reports taken by weather observers at all sorts of places across the face of the earth . |