Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [pron] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What struck me was the way in which he seemed to have little difficulty not merely in coming down to my level but in entering into my feelings , as if I were telling him about the most natural matter in the world . |
| 2 | And then er I were telling you about the er where the marshes was n't I . |
| 3 | Er I were telling you about the pianos , in one particular terrace you could just imagine it in , what , nineteen er twenty si no , twenty seven twenty eight , and you know things were bad , you talk about the thirties , the twenties were worse than that . |
| 4 | I 'd gone across to the old folks ' home to have a chat with Maureen and , inevitably , I was telling her about the trouble I was having . |
| 5 | ‘ I was telling him about the Glory , and I said I 'd driven it over and what did he think — was he looking forward to driving it and all that — ’ She paused excitedly . |
| 6 | Coming back to the council last year , some time in May last year , and er I was telling them about the noise and the situation , at the time . |
| 7 | I was telling you about the Queen Mary . |
| 8 | Er well Mark remember I was telling you about the boss that the two there the other night they give er a , a wage rise |
| 9 | I was asking you about the guy Adam 's been talking to this evening . ’ |
| 10 | " Now , I was saying something about the fish-shop on Lyons Dock . |
| 11 | Cos somebody was saying something about the la the last time they got in , it all went |
| 12 | Subject presumes perceived er speaker as pr prestigious and authoritative and they perceived that there might be future interaction with him perceived his speech is more similar to their own than subjects who were told nothing about the speaker . |
| 13 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 14 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 15 | ‘ She was asking me about the criminal classes , so I was telling her . ’ |
| 16 | Cos , they was telling us about the weave for the white people and they were showing us a booklet and the |
| 17 | ‘ He was telling me about the Russian visit . ’ |
| 18 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 19 | Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots . |
| 20 | He was saying something about the Hamilton house , a question . |