Example sentences of "[v-ing] about [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I hope councillor has n't been puzzling about this question because I think she should have had adequate warning erm the cycling part of working party was agreed by city board on the ninth of on the seventh of December is to come to an end and such work has er relates to cycling within a new transport working party . |
| 3 | ‘ When you started prattling about that man I sometimes saw here before I ever went up to Oxford , ’ she said . |
| 4 | And so Harrison of Caldbeck and Robinson of Buttermere — wrestlers were always known by name and village both — were circling about each other 's conversation trying for a grip . |
| 5 | Relatively little is known about such people , although in oral evidence to the House of Commons Health Committee the head of medical statistics at the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys remarked that ‘ one of the things that people are now suggesting about that other group who do not have an occupation is that they are forming … an under class . ’ |
| 6 | In the middle of the night he rose and , after eating about half a jar of honey , felt a lot better . |
| 7 | In August , however , she and Andrew were billing and cooing about each other in Hello ! magazine . |
| 8 | Mecir does not need reminding about this inconsistency . |
| 9 | Ahmed : I must say that I did n't think much of the group when it was first set up because f felt that it wasted a lot of time whinging about all the things that were ‘ being handed to the Black workers on a plate because anti-racism was currently fashionable ’ . |
| 10 | Anyway seeing about that Steve . |
| 11 | What 's happening about that boy ? ’ |
| 12 | What 's happening about that ? |
| 13 | I mean , what 's happening about these speakers then ? |
| 14 | There 's nothing revealing about that . |
| 15 | I ca n't stand gossip , or people bitching about each other . |
| 16 | Now he was bitching about all matters technical . |
| 17 | My hope is that by praying about such situations I am helping to keep God from being pushed out , forgotten or ignored . |
| 18 | In a month 's time , she decided , applying some pale lipstick , I 'll be laughing about all this . |
| 19 | They ended up laughing about that , but it was the uneasy laughter of desperation and displacement , and all they could do after that was finish the whisky and have the joint Rory had been working on , and it was almost a relief when Fergus was sick as a dog out of the window , hanging out barfing onto the slates and into the guttering while Rory tried to clean the plaster off the top bunk and stowed the guns out of harm 's way . |
| 20 | But we said we , we could n't give over laughing about that and they thought it was hilarious because it , it 's like C & A 's they used to always say , nineteen and eleven or nine and eleven or , it was always the |
| 21 | yeah , you see , so we were laughing about this , anyway , Christopher phoned up and said he got through to the second part , he was the only one that was going through to the second part and he phoned up about forty five minutes later to say that he 'd erm , he 'd got the job |
| 22 | You 're sorta runnin' about all the time , so you do n't get time for anythin' else really . |
| 23 | You were checking about that last time we met . |
| 24 | ‘ I want to thank you , Rober' , for being so understanding about all of this with Philippe . ’ |
| 25 | RE should aim at giving pupils information and understanding about all of these , bearing in mind the age and aptitude of pupils . |
| 26 | There are some points worth noticing about this scheme . |
| 27 | Well smokers all clear or not I do n't know but th that even mentioned in that book Downham Reach and that talk about the Priory Farm where was cos that was all walking about all these smugglers at that time but the book I , the history I thought about do n't seem the same in the book now . |
| 28 | big massive fat woman right , and she was just walking about this conference , you know where she 's not supposed to be , and all these shoulders stab her right ? |
| 29 | If only I had as much spare time as you evidently do , then I would happily reciprocate by wandering about this house reminding you of tasks you have perfectly well in hand . ’ |
| 30 | Mrs Howard had an interview with the Brewers [ her prospective employers ] last night , but I to not wish to be writing about that . |