Example sentences of "[adv] he be [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he was thinking about Hamnet . |
| 2 | So he 's walking about , the shorts are this wide |
| 3 | Ostensibly he 's talking about his career and history department and he goes back to it again . |
| 4 | ( A few years later he was to complain about Eden wearing himself out by this frivolity . ) |
| 5 | It was n't they took three hundred people the last time and now he 's talking about three hundred . |
| 6 | Now he was thinking about dishwashers . |
| 7 | And now he was lurching about his flat with innocent children asleep in their beds , and he had lied to Helga . |
| 8 | Now he was joking about the rumours of his marriage . |
| 9 | Now he was bitching about all matters technical . |
| 10 | Oh , Lord I Now he was talking about eternity . |
| 11 | And now he was talking about mistletoe , and she did n't have to be very sophisticated or experienced to realise that he was angling quite unsubtly for a chance to kiss her . |
| 12 | From , from Yugoslavia , and we , we heard provisionally he was released about August did n't we , and then eventually a couple of months ago that he had definitely released , erm , and , were , were very pleased about that cos was he released before the end of his term , he must have been ? |
| 13 | Interestingly he 's talking about — this is written on the third of May , talking about the present splendid weather , which is , plus the recent report that too many British industrialists are making themselves ill because they do n't take their holidays has prompted me to write to you about our holidays . |
| 14 | Today he was talking about his job . |
| 15 | Well he 's talking about the er genetic engineering , he says that it will be a shame . |
| 16 | I think he 's , he 's like the other day when he was here he was talking about how he was turning over a new leaf and stuff . |
| 17 | Mostly he is talking about a period before the war but he also refers to the uprising against the Germans in 1912 , and some events immediately after the last war , and to a man he describes as his brother . |
| 18 | Rather he is informed about the situation and the purpose of informing him is to provide a knowledge base from which he can work out his own actions . |
| 19 | and there he was boasting about his age and |
| 20 | Maybe he 's forgotten about me or something . |
| 21 | Maybe he 's talking about it all . |
| 22 | Maybe he was talking about someone called Simone . |
| 23 | But instead he is talking about keeping up research and development on space-based systems — which is exactly what was being done before . |
| 24 | So I sat there thinking about life , and when I listened again he was talking about orgasms . ’ |
| 25 | Recently he was talking about becoming a club pro , or a dustman . |