Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was most understanding about the needs of our party . |
| 2 | Prince Charles had been talking and gently agitating about the subject for many years . |
| 3 | I think you are especially wonderful , the way you are so understanding about my odd career . |
| 4 | It is kind of you to be so understanding about Mrs Howard 's going — only another writer could be . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to thank you , Rober' , for being so understanding about all of this with Philippe . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Happened to me once , ’ said the man sitting next to her , the one who had been so understanding about the malfunctioning photocopier . |
| 7 | Well I was working in the quarry , and er it 's last March turned round and said he wanted a new implemented with a new miracle saw that he had bought and he did n't really give us much warning about what he was gon na do but all he said was that er he was gon na scrap our old bonus contract and implement a new one no matter what , and from various figures that were bandied about we all realized we were gon na back quite a lot worse off because of it . |
| 8 | Two neurology departments where registries of outpatients are maintained ( Western General Hospital , Edinburgh , and Ninewells Hospital , Dundee , together serving about 20–25% of the Scottish population ) allowed scrutiny of records of patients aged less than 73 years with a diagnosis of dementia . |
| 9 | So writing about contemporary Britain never seems to change as much or as fast as the country itself . |
| 10 | So writing about photographer David Bailey in ‘ the Life and Loves of David Bailey ’ , page 56 , was relatively straightforward . |
| 11 | The Ego is constantly chattering about its fears , worries and doubts , cluttering up our head with thoughts that go nowhere — just in case we decide to think for ourselves , to question , to explore new possibilities , to feel our suppressed emotions , to reach beyond our old ways of being , to develop a new vision . |
| 12 | I 'm somewhat wondering about this flat . |
| 13 | And he had pigs ' eyes , was all that she could think as he said , ‘ Let me call you back , ’ into the phone and then cradled it before standing and , still holding her arm and not much caring about how it would hurt , moving to close the office door . |
| 14 | Mr. Joseph Kasner , a director of the landlord , who later saw the interior of the premises , says that they were four-fifths empty , the goods only occupying about one-fifth of the premises . |
| 15 | DCT personally leading about one in every four flights . |
| 16 | As Mr Imai 's analysis makes clear , the term keiretsu is used to refer to so many different kinds of industrial groups in Japan that generalising about all of them , and especially complaining about them as a group , makes little sense . |
| 17 | The consequence of this is that we are constantly hypothesizing about the possible significance of each event , and often discovering that we are wrong . |
| 18 | There were n't many fashionables living on or near Dartmoor and Horatia was constantly complaining about the isolation . |
| 19 | Moreover , aspiring members of this new class were not only moving about the country ; they were also moving upward , abandoning grandparents who could not keep up , or did not wish to do so . |
| 20 | There was something so moving about the whole experience . |
| 21 | I suppose if you 're buying by the thousands the price 'd come down a lot , but when we were only buying about , you know , forty odd plants |
| 22 | That was what was so threatening about them . |
| 23 | She is interested in the primitive and the raw , both culturally and emotionally , but is endlessly discriminating about the tenacious way in which cultural forms , from cookery to high literature and music , establish themselves and persist . |
| 24 | I dabbed a little on each puckered mouth to further shouts of laughter and much dancing about the room . |
| 25 | The first part , on the promenade , was not so bad as the last lap up into the town centre where all the local talent was collected round the cinema and amusement arcade or merely loafing about the pavement . |
| 26 | She had been disappointed that he showed no love of the poetry and books which meant so much to her , only reading about industrial history and dry facts and figures . |
| 27 | Especially hearing about other men . |
| 28 | and erm tt , he says well he says she did enough creating about it , he says , so |
| 29 | So learning about healthy eating and what is a healthy balanced diet for you is very important . |
| 30 | ‘ I was only joking about yours . |