Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Complaints from the regional Propaganda Offices that neither press , nor radio , nor newsreels were reporting anything about the Führer any longer were to no avail . |
| 3 | ‘ You were telling me about a party . ’ |
| 4 | In other words , it was costing us about a pound an hour in water . |
| 5 | Alexander was disporting himself about the boat . |
| 6 | " Now , I was saying something about the fish-shop on Lyons Dock . |
| 7 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |
| 8 | The young man was asking her about the room , about his chances of getting it , she suddenly heard . |
| 9 | I was asking you about the guy Adam 's been talking to this evening . ’ |
| 10 | Rutherford was muttering something about a by-pass always changing a country community , as if he felt the need to apologise for the place . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He was telling her about a holiday in Greece instead . |
| 14 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 17 | you was telling me about a suit . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | I thought he was telling us about a mountain he climbed . |
| 20 | Cos , they was telling us about the weave for the white people and they were showing us a booklet and the |