Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone else would be going on about softly wooded fissures and sweetly mounded hills . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend is a charming relative newcomer to this place and we are delighted that she is here , but if she had been here as long as I have — getting on for 18 years now — she would have heard me banging on about exactly that point . |
| 3 | Erm y'know erm it 's also erm perhaps interesting the way things have er have shifted you know in the last decade or so , like that thing that erm used to be on in the seventies , It Ai n't Half Hot Mum , with um a number of people pretending to be Indians and and exhibiting all the stereotypes y'know it ai n't half racist mum is probably more erm er in fact there was a book called It Ai n't Half Racist Mum that er Leicester University library had er y'know going on about exactly that you know the sort of y'know racism of comedy . |
| 4 | I had to listen for a good hour while he burbled on about variably apertured annuity options and the like . |
| 5 | Are those the candy-floss , Mickey Mouse jobs that the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) goes on about so much , or are those people just sponging off the backs of the poll tax payers ? |
| 6 | ‘ Back there in the lift earlier you did n't instantly and gallantly leap to my defence and punch Florian on the nose when he was carrying on about how undesirable I am ! ’ |
| 7 | You 'll find me banging on about how great the ‘ Back In Denim ’ LP is elsewhere in this issue so you can drop most of the theories there . |
| 8 | When I bought her as a young heifer , a friend went on and on about how small she was until I wondered if I was going to have a beast left at all by the time she had finished . |
| 9 | Just this fat bloke going on about how much he does n't know . ’ |
| 10 | My grandma kept saying horrible things about my mother and my father kept rambling on about how much he missed her . |
| 11 | They 're always going on about how much Shrimpy gets other people involved and ca n't stick up for himself are n't they ? |
| 12 | If somebody keeps on going abo on about how much they love you , if somebody keeps on going on about they care for you and how much they 'd like you to enjoy yourself and er all that kind of thing and you subsequently feel hurt , upset , abused and need to go to casualty , that 's probably a lot more difficult to understand because it does n't fit the script . |
| 13 | I could go on about how many different sounds you can muster from Marshall 's new baby , but there are just so many that this would be unrealistic . |
| 14 | But then he kept going on about how brilliant your party was gon na be and everything and I 'm sat there thinking let's face it , if I come on between you know , because like , it would have been alright cos I 'd be finished like , today or tomorrow and then it would have been like nice and ready for the party ! |
| 15 | Grey breath in the air , snowmen on the heath , pub bores droning on about how typical it is that a few inches of snow throws the whole country into chaos when the Swiss handle metres of the stuff without missing a beat . |
| 16 | I am heartily sick of reading letters in Points of View from folk whingeing on and on about how nasty the English are and how they are colonising Scotland . |
| 17 | The media is going on about how negative Leeds were , what else could they be given the circumstances . |
| 18 | We started walking off , Cal saying , ‘ Your folks are beside themselves , they ca n't stop going on about how desperate they are , your mum 's sure your dad 's going to have a … ’ |
| 19 | but I do n't think Telecom 's up to dating things , Telecom keeps rabbitting on about how clever they are at doing this |
| 20 | he was on about how different people |
| 21 | When federalists bleat on about how interdependent the world is , one wonders what world they live in . |
| 22 | ‘ So she goes on about how wise he is , and what a brilliant speaker and … |
| 23 | He gets annoyed if I say anything about it , but that does n't stop him going on about how slim I was at 17 when we first met . |
| 24 | A whole load of boring industry heads droning on about how important they are and trying to cop off with each other ? |
| 25 | " And stop going on about how wonderful you are . |
| 26 | The North will not get that investment if certain influential people keeping banging on about how wonderful things are . |
| 27 | He was always going on about how undignified and painful the examinations were . |
| 28 | All able-bodied people go on about how horrible the changing-room experience is — how awful because my bra is dirty , or I 'm too fat or too thin — but disabled girls : how do you even begin to assess your own emotions on entering a changing room with young able-bodied women , most of them slim but all saying , ‘ Oh , I 've got a horrible body ’ , when you 're in a wheelchair , just wanting to try on a pair of trousers ? |
| 29 | It looks like there is some kind of compromise going on between really nineteen sixties modern and a traditional newspaper . |
| 30 | The search for Louise Butler had been going on for over two days . |