Example sentences of "about being the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've gone on for years about being the only person in the West Country with the faintest notion how to prune roses . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't even think about about the decathlon again until Duncan Mathieson , another one of Jim 's group down here , started going on about being the only one who was going to make it to the World Student Games . |
| 3 | All that shite about being the biggest , the best , the loudest ; it 's all meaningless . ’ |
| 4 | Well I was taking your point about You know o o wives , about being the same sort of age . |
| 5 | Now as far as I 'm concerned , if the benefit to B is greater , supposing for example , they 're not the same age , sorry , I should n't have said that about being the same age . |
| 6 | She might seem remote to new readers when she talks proudly about being the last family at school to get a TV set , and the books open on the table at mealtimes in her parent 's house . |