Example sentences of "[v-ing] about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what he said , prophesying about the future , saying what would happen in the future in this case . |
| 2 | One was a complicated case in which the client had a number of relatives living nearby , who were said to be always arguing with each other ( including about the client 's care ) . |
| 3 | What a load of old cobblers … dare n't tell you what Hereford supporters were singing about the ref tho … to the first division now … a draw for Oxford … defeat for Swindon |
| 4 | In the British case ( and Saunders makes it clear that he is generalising about the home in British society ) the best way in which the occupant of a house can acquire ontological security is through being its owner . |
| 5 | He frowns , and curls his beard round his fingers , gazing about the room . |
| 6 | phoning about the disco . |
| 7 | Flavia spent most of her day puzzling about the stranger . |
| 8 | Not realizing that they were pr preaching about the glory that been . |
| 9 | And you 'd hear the tracer bullets rattling about the tin sheds . |
| 10 | Mallards , coots and moorhens could often be seen and heard waddling about the housing estate where I lived or sometimes even boldly marching up the high street . |
| 11 | THERE was something particularly touching about the picture of murdered teenager Johanna Young that dominated newspaper front pages this week . |
| 12 | She spent more and more time off her eggs , parading about the yard , cackling as if demented and taking sudden rushes in whatever direction she happened to be facing when each fit of frenzy overcame her . |
| 13 | At first I heard only a few calls ; within ten minutes , at least twice as many animals were calling , and , by circling about the pool , I observed that a steady stream of spadefoots was coming from all directions to the breeding area . |
| 14 | All you did was sit round like some old colonel in an Agatha Christie book , bellowing about the country going to the dogs . |
| 15 | The thought of Harriet fussing about the Rectory held little charm for her brother-in-law . |
| 16 | Mothers are all right , I suppose , you 'd miss them fussing about the place , but ould fellows are like that hind tits of a cow – no good for use or ornament . |
| 17 | In a very short time , the two of them , together with Mrs Diggory , were fussing about the dog in the library , with bowls of warm water , blankets , an old sheet torn in strips , and even some milk laced with laudanum unearthed from the late Lady Merchiston 's store of medicines in the attics . |
| 18 | Insufferably put , and probably not his own thought but something he has read , out of one of his damned French books that his father loathed seeing about the place — he had a phenomenal memory for things he had read . |
| 19 | He soons starts squawking and wiping his eye and stamping about the place but if he 's like that all the while to them so what is . |
| 20 | The angle between the models is in this case preserved , indicating that they have been operated on as if they were a single model rotating about the origin . |
| 21 | What 's happening about the car ? |
| 22 | Or else she turns to him in the middle of dinner and asks : ‘ What 's happening about the Matterhorn , Howard ? |
| 23 | Yet her father was being stupid , bragging about the business . |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't fancy having a lot of kids tearing about the house , but , having brought up my own , I did n't feel I had an excuse . |
| 25 | ‘ But tearing about the countryside late at night with a man not her husband is par for the course , eh ? ’ |
| 26 | After all , since much of social research requires a direct encounter with the everyday social world , the act of research can be immensely revealing about the nature of social life . |
| 27 | They rub salt into God 's wounds by romanticizing about the past . |
| 28 | When she had chosen the least remarkable and staggered downstairs in a pair of high-heeled purple boots the others got their revenge by wheezing about the room in hysterics once more . |
| 29 | Yamaha should take solace from the thought that Senna was bitching about the power of the new V12 Honda , later saying he had been misquoted and that there was ‘ nothing fundamentally wrong ’ with the new Honda . |
| 30 | We can then get cracking about the conversion . " |