Example sentences of "he [verb] [been] [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been wandering about Wales , giving a spending pledge here and a spending pledge there . |
| 2 | Looking at the sorts of things that Paul writes about as well , you 'll see that there is a change in material ; up to now , he has been writing about Christian doctrine . |
| 3 | ‘ I would like to beat him because of what he has been saying about me , ’ Mason said . |
| 4 | ‘ I would like to beat him because of what he has been saying about me , ’ Mason said . |
| 5 | ‘ As well I know , ’ he said , ‘ or I might be tempted to thrash that cur beside you until he is senseless for what I hear that he has been saying about London of me and mine . |
| 6 | Suddenly the penny dropped , and Meredith knew why he 'd been prowling about the airport like an angry lion . |
| 7 | And to think he 'd been agonizing about what line to take on Bartocci 's conspiracy theory ! |
| 8 | The whole idea that he 'd been thinking about since Christmas seemed pointless all of a sudden . |
| 9 | She 'd had a fever since last night , and all day at school he 'd been thinking about her . |
| 10 | He 'd been thinking about her , but he did n't want it to show . |
| 11 | ‘ No , he 'd been talking about it . |
| 12 | Now was obviously not the time to confront Feargal and ask what the devil he 'd been talking about . |
| 13 | For the last few hours he had been thinking about James and Kate and the rest of the Mollands , the Salpertons and the Redburns ; and it would not have shocked him if any or all of them who were still alive had turned up unannounced at Number 29 . |
| 14 | He had been thinking about the Doctor 's earlier words , that he should get used to obeying Henri , and had come to the conclusion that doing as he said no longer suited him . |
| 15 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 16 | The first thing he had thought of when he awoke that morning was that it was his mother 's birthday , 25 May , and he had been thinking about it ever since , as he always did on that day . |
| 17 | It was delicious to be close to Alain , to belong to him , to know that all the time she had been alone he had been thinking about her . |
| 18 | He said abruptly , rather as if he had been thinking about something quite different all the time Nick had been talking — ‘ She may be a little upset , I 'm afraid . |
| 19 | The worry he had been feeling about Janine was replaced by elation . |
| 20 | He had been talking about giving up and concentrating his efforts entirely on writing and directing and , like the discovery of another little nugget , was spurred on by reaction to The Trip which , in spite of a critical mauling on the grounds of promoting drug abuse , was still seen as a gifted piece of writing . |
| 21 | Should she try and get him back again or buy a newspaper first and try to find out what in the world he had been talking about ? |
| 22 | Hope smiled to himself : the smile broadened , and to disguise his true feelings he turned the smile on Mr Crump ; who was greatly encouraged as he had been talking about the slave trade on which much of his father 's great founding fortune had been based . |
| 23 | He 's been bouncing about the office all day like a rubber ball . ’ |
| 24 | The guy relays how he 's been fantasising about you while with his new girlfriend , so you invite him over to do the wild thing . |
| 25 | He explained : ‘ He 's been talking about Peter Pan since he was three years old . |