Example sentences of "there [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I know these people do n't feel free , I know they 're all hurrying along or sitting there worrying about their jobs or their mortgages or being late or an IRA bomb in the nearest litter-bin , but I look at them and feel a terrible sense of loss , because I think I 've surrendered all this ; the ordinariness of life , the ability just to be part of it and take part in it . |
| 2 | She was lying there worrying about that when she started to feel these twinges . ’ |
| 3 | been down there asking about er |
| 4 | So what are you smokers out there doing about it ? |
| 5 | So what are you smokers out there doing about it ? |
| 6 | In the early days of the band , before John arrived , he 'd beaver away at us in the pub , making us think through our attitudes We ’ d be sitting there talking about music and he 'd dive in . |
| 7 | ‘ How can you stand there talking about bits of paper and profits and money … money , ’ she made the word into an excrescence , ‘ when what you are doing is playing with a human soul . |
| 8 | ‘ Well then , do n't just stand there talking about it … do it ! ’ |
| 9 | He goes there talking about paper sovereignty , when the country 's real sovereignty is increasingly dependent on the actions of our European Community partners . |
| 10 | I mean there 's a lady down there talking about taking |
| 11 | But there was another lady there talking about taking Tamazapam as a drug of abuse and tha , that 's the difficulty . |
| 12 | So he sat there thinking about life and things ; |
| 13 | But while Howard sits there , trying not to think about those 97,000 piled corpses , he apparently sits there thinking about coffee . |
| 14 | So I sat there thinking about life , and when I listened again he was talking about orgasms . ’ |
| 15 | She could lie there thinking about a most unpleasant nightmare , thanking God that it was n't true . |
| 16 | I was lying there thinking about fellatio at the time . |
| 17 | I sat there thinking about it , feeling decidedly uneasy . |
| 18 | She had n't had an early night for ages and when she did get to bed she did n't sleep but just lay there thinking about Karl . |
| 19 | For a miracle , almost boiling hot water poured out of the taps into the bath and Julia let herself have a really deep bath for once , lying there dreaming about the day when her life might be whole again and weaving plans to make it so , until the skin of her fingers and toes crinkled and the water felt cold . |