Example sentences of "and [vb base] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Dilys Powell could reasonably complain of Jamaica Inn ( 1939 ) that there was ‘ hardly any suspense , hardly any of the building up to a climax which makes the dullest American film tolerable ’ , and enthuse about Carol Reed 's A Girl Must Live ( 1939 ) , saying it showed how the British could make ‘ a comedy which has the speed and glitter and impudence of the best American comedies . ’ |
| 2 | They do n't haunt because they want to wring their hands and wail about something that happened hundreds of years ago . |
| 3 | To complete the idyllic farmyard scene , chickens , a mixture of varieties , strut and scratch about the driveway and the fields . |
| 4 | Wounded during the robbery , Roth ( Mr Orange ) actually spends most of the movie slowly bleeding to death , while Harvey Keitel ( the sentimental old-time thief Mr White ) , Steve Buscemi ( the motormouth obsessive Mr Pink ) and Michael Madsen ( the quietly psychopathic Mr Blonde ) bicker and brawl about who sold them out . |
| 5 | For example , both student teachers and student nurses are being expected to spend more time in the professional setting , and are being encouraged to appraise their own actions and to be explicit and articulate about what they are doing and why . |
| 6 | A mobile information unit with a video and display about Durham County Ambulance Service will tour towns in Teesdale and Weardale explaining details of the application . |
| 7 | They would sit out in their deckchairs in brilliant sunshine , surveying snow-covered range after magnificent snow-covered range , and while they took refreshment , take snapshots of one another , and chatter about the delights of a winter sports holiday in the Savoy Alps , the more energetic would be trudging up from below on seal skins or swooping by from above demonstrating their skill . |
| 8 | A force which holds one powerfully back from such opinions is however Sam Gamgee , who counterpoints the most solemn moments of crossing with banalities like ‘ Live and learn ! ’ and chatter about his uncle Andy ( who used to have a rope-walk at Tighfield ) . |
| 9 | Now , what we 've got here is a lump of wood roughly the same shape trying to be a cricket bat , and if you hit a ball with it , the ball will travel about ten feet and you will drop the bat and dance about shouting ‘ Ouch ! ’ with your hands stuck into your armpits . |
| 10 | But it is humbug for the Harlequins to make a great song and dance about it — and for Jamie Salmon to imply that the New Zealanders never kick anyone . |
| 11 | This theme has a curious persistence , but one does not need a song and dance about it . |
| 12 | ‘ Surely people have better things to do than make a great song and dance about missing a dinner party . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I am not making a great song and dance about it , ’ she said in a softly dangerous voice and , with a hint of ostentation in her movements , stirred a saccharin tablet into a cup of black coffee . |
| 14 | Pesh Framjee of Binder Hamlyn 's Charities Unit agrees that fund managers are making a song and dance about the changes , ‘ but let us say there is no smoke without fire and a lot of wet leaves going round ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ He used his money to help others — but he never made a song and dance about it . ’ |
| 16 | Although there has been a great song and dance about his supposedly suspect temperament this season , I ca n't fault it . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , after making such a song and dance about it , there 's very little to tell . |
| 18 | And they , you know , they 're no worse than children anywhere else in the country , and I do n't wish to make a big song and dance about it . |
| 19 | I actually think Black was fouled but as you say he makes a bit of a song and dance about it . |
| 20 | She would be sure to make such a song and dance about her aching feet that she would get right to the head of the queue for the room-key — well , apart from Mrs Roscoe , naturally ! ’ |
| 21 | What we have done is we have erm been able to utilise some A C T capacity or generate some A C T capacity within one of the subsidiaries within the group um the reason for highlighting it highlighting it is not particularly to make a song and dance about it but is particularly to say that on the cash flow statement there is this in-flood and it is a one off in-flood we 're not going to be seeing that being brought forward every year , but basically what it is is we have profits in previous elements of the group which enabled us to generate A C T capacity enabled us to off set this A C T which we paid on dividends and bringing forward earlier than we would otherwise have done . |
| 22 | But to the children of Gloucestershire , it 's just making a song and dance about having fun . |
| 23 | Without making a song and dance about it your quiet air of self-assured confidence makes you a natural leader , so do n't be surprised to find yourself elected unofficial spokesperson for a group of trusting friends , workmates or neighbours . |
| 24 | ‘ Burra has not made a song and dance about how it has been affected , ’ he said . |
| 25 | And if had n't of got on the phone and sort of made a song and dance about it , and told one or two things , and said one or two things they come up with a bit more money , but again you have to lie through your teeth to get back what you 're really entitled to ! |
| 26 | A sign which went up on the Raiders ' dressing-room door after the match , advising that only Australian media personnel were welcome , bore witness to the visitors ' touchiness about defeat , though at least they did not follow Manly 's example and grumble about the referee . |
| 27 | An instant later she felt fitzAlan 's arm jerk and slacken about her . |
| 28 | Since many of the evangelicals shared Billy Graham 's opinions and valued his methods and saw the good which he did , his article stirred wrath among them and fear about the Bishop of Durham becoming the Archbishop of York . |
| 29 | Most burghers who voted for the right did so to express uncertainty and fear about the looming costs of unification . |
| 30 | This anger and fear about Old English degeneracy was a common complaint among numerous New English settlers . |