Example sentences of "was [adv prt] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She was on about the end o' the world was nigh . |
| 2 | Hankies , me mam was on about the bogeys that they pull on the , back behind their bikes |
| 3 | That 's right yeah , for a little bit , I was on about the reference to er Embassy Service though |
| 4 | I was on about the necklace and you said it was a bit pricey |
| 5 | Oh I thought you was on about the pie . |
| 6 | I just saw the bit where he was on about the erm short sighted hedgehog . |
| 7 | It is traditionally accepted that it was in about the year 753 B.C. that a tribe of people settled near the Tiber on the Palatine Hill . |
| 8 | I 'd come across that and used that intravenously and thought well I really enjoy this and at the time the people who I knew were breaking into chemists and things , they used to come across very powerful substances , diamorphine , crystallised cocaine , morphine , that whole range of opiates and also amphetamines , black bombers and all the rest of it and then opium became more available on the streets and it was round about the same price as cannabis was at the time … . |
| 9 | Its heyday was round about the 1930s and not all that many pure examples of it are being published today , though there are enough to make it a possible type of book to write if you are strongly inclined this way . |
| 10 | My first offence was round about the age of eleven — shoplifting . |