Sentence examples for banging on something from inspiring English sources

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There were a lot of free concerts then, happenings and be-ins, with these hippy bands with masses of people in them, banging on something, droning away.

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You started banging on about something else – horses, I think it was.

Avoid standing on a soap-box and banging on about something.

Whether or not it's true (it is), I would like to suggest that pure delicious tripe like Towie makes every bit as valid a contribution to the culture as Adam Curtis banging on about something poetic over some old videotapes.

The other night, while the world was otherwise preoccupied with laughably trivial matters, like that US election thing that people won't stop banging on about, something very serious was going down.

Like spectral armies fighting and refighting the battles of yore, the combatants of the 1990s are once more in the headlines, "banging on about Europe", something Mr Cameron, who witnessed the psycho-dramas as an adviser, once warned the party never to do again.All of which should, in theory, be a boon for Ed Miliband, the Labour leader.

Why, it is frequently demanded, do we continue to bang on about something that is barely even an issue any more?

"Well," he said, "you can cut it now in which case he'll be banging on to you about something else tonight or you can leave it until after the last preview, in which case he may leave you alone".

As she approached, the female emus started making loud drumming noises that sounded something like banging on the bottom of a plastic bucket.

Its route is direct – it doesn't take any wrong turnings, misapplying its goodness to, say, a pain-free elbow, thus creating a weird zone of anti-pain so that the woman has to bang it on something to restore balance – and, crucially, it doesn't just send ibuprofen all over the body so anything that happens to be hurting, be it ear, knee, throat or bladder, does so slightly less.

"You were always getting banged up on something.

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