Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be [adj] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been excited about Brownies for so long that I 'd been warned about wishing my life away nearly a hundred times by the week of my first Pack meeting . |
| 2 | Maybe I 'd been wrong about Bonanza after all . |
| 3 | When I was Secretary of State for Education and Science I recall being concerned about the implications of some methods of teaching reading if they are followed too acutely — in other words , without a balance of reading methods . |
| 4 | And I suppose being predictable about it all , I better play this for you if you 're on your way to an aerobics keep fit class some time this afternoon , or this evening . |
| 5 | What I think 's different about this series is that whereas Casualty and The Bill are about the state sector , what South of the Border seems to be about is the impossibility of the state ever actually doing anything right . |
| 6 | erm This is quite an interesting cartoon , and really has no connection with either St Aldate 's or Oxford , erm but it was actually published in 1642 , and it shows the two sides , the Roundheads and the Cavaliers , and what I think is interesting about it is that it does seem to be quite objective , it does n't seem to be particularly getting at one side or the other , which is very rare for the kind of erm cartoons that were later issued during the war . |
| 7 | I had been right about one thing — an enormous procession of funeral guests was making its steady way into the riverside church . |
| 8 | When the tent was up , I had to prove that I had been right about the proximity of a village . |
| 9 | So I had been right about that . |
| 10 | The shots were going to look terrific , but this was ridiculous — the very thing I had been cynical about and did not wish to do I was doing ; carrying a bike both up and down a mountain . |
| 11 | I had been worried about the vodka . |
| 12 | I know you think I 've been casual about your gown , but when Roman insisted I wear his clothes I could n't turn him down , could I ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been worrying about this . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been worrying about you since yesterday . |
| 15 | ‘ Man , I 've been worrying about that for fifteen years ! ’ exclaims Bryan . |
| 16 | I 've been worrying about that . ’ |
| 17 | I 've been sure about all the other , too . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been crazy about him ever since the first time I saw him . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Did n't you guess , my beautiful idiot , that I 've been crazy about you from the first time I saw you standing outside your hotel bedroom in France ? ’ |
| 20 | I 've got more work since I 've been open about my sexuality than before . |
| 21 | Of course , I 've been worried about Ian , and the way you and he — ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been worried about you . ’ |
| 23 | Perhaps I 've been wrong about him , after all ! |
| 24 | If I 've been wrong about you I 'm sorry . |
| 25 | Perhaps I 've been wrong about him . ’ |
| 26 | Look , Rory , I 've been wrong about a lot of things in my life , but never more than I have been about you , right from the start . |
| 27 | I have been depressed about life in the Eighties , the way the economy has gone in the last twelve years . |
| 28 | Do you want me to have a go at doing that Simon ? because I have been difficult about it , if that helps you . |
| 29 | What I have been concerned about in this short section has been to compare some simple forms of growth equations deriving from quite different traditions . |
| 30 | Although the poem is conventional in several respects , it ends critically , not with the shepherdess cheered up by a song or by the sight of another attractive shepherd , but with Daphne recognizing that she has been gullible about her young man . |