Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And so Harrison of Caldbeck and Robinson of Buttermere — wrestlers were always known by name and village both — were circling about each other 's conversation trying for a grip . |
| 3 | His 1977 LP New Boots and Panties , a witty , vulgar celebration of low-life in Billericay and Shoeburyness , was released at a time when other British groups were singing about California in counterfeit mid-Atlantic accents . |
| 4 | Most of them were black ; now black and white girls were singing about their boyfriends . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | They were laughing about Lord Halifax and the buglers of Eaton Square . |
| 7 | yeah , you see , so we were laughing about this , anyway , Christopher phoned up and said he got through to the second part , he was the only one that was going through to the second part and he phoned up about forty five minutes later to say that he 'd erm , he 'd got the job |
| 8 | We were laughing about it . |
| 9 | You were checking about that last time we met . |
| 10 | It would have been hard to sit there smouldering with scorn while all around children were bouncing about delivering their verdict of unrestrained approval . |
| 11 | As the ducks were squawking about what they had seen , three tiny shrews scampered from the undergrowth . |
| 12 | Long before the Gulf crisis , American , British and French ministries of defence were warning about the new threat from the South — the increase in missiles and chemical weapons , the danger of fanatics , fundamentalists , drug traffickers and so forth . |
| 13 | ‘ They were writing about the country , but they were n't from it . |
| 14 | In this case it is open to question whether the authors of the limited number of extant documents were writing about contemporary events or were recording what they believed to have happened , based on oral tradition . |
| 15 | Those who did go before 1560 were writing about a country which the English wanted to conquer . |
| 16 | At the very moment when they were writing about these problems , Marx and Engels were writing the seminal texts in which the political solutions were expounded . |
| 17 | ‘ If you were writing about animals , it would be a fable . ’ |
| 18 | Men still do this — they talk of men 's struggles , movements and characteristics as if they were writing about the whole class . |
| 19 | And yet they were writing about the same place , and both of them knew it intimately , and had known it for years . |
| 20 | A few were older , many were younger , than I. Some like myself were looking about them . |
| 21 | We thought we had an enormous pile but unfortunately our fire was not very long lasting and by 6 o'clock we were wandering about looking at the other , more professionally built conflagrations . |
| 22 | ‘ The newsboys were shouting about it in the street , ’ |
| 23 | German S.P. guns and other motorised equipment were lying about the approach road in grotesque twisted shapes , victims of direct hits from the British guns . |
| 24 | He could solve every practical problem , and made Jane some superlative furniture , just out of odd pieces of wood which were lying about the estate . |
| 25 | And as they were fretting about it being nicked , it turned up in their own backyard . |
| 26 | You were enquiring about the availability and price of the Simulations EFL software . |
| 27 | By the time Adam and Billie were drinking their coffees , the contact had interrupted Kragan at a training meeting and told him of the two foreigners in the Bellevue Hotel who were enquiring about the Dresden Heide . |
| 28 | ‘ We were wondering about that charming old gentleman we 've seen you with in Mondano . ’ |
| 29 | It got harder to laugh at the weekly brace of ‘ Kurt Is Dead ’ stories when various credible sources were whispering about Cobain and partner Courtney Love doing heroin together , about them being completely out of it all at their wedding in Hawaii , about them going into detox and then quitting . |
| 30 | People were whispering about me behind my back — smiling to my face of course — but whispering behind my back . |