Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] about the [noun] " 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 | 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 | ‘ Our vicar was tellin' us about the people who are leadin' the uprisin' in Russia . |
| 5 | Alexander was disporting himself about the boat . |
| 6 | He was saying something about the Hamilton house , a question . |
| 7 | " Now , I was saying something about the fish-shop on Lyons Dock . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I think Alwin and Pat use an auditor cos as you know he 's in business and I 've got a feeling that Alwin was asking me about the auditors the other day , so whether there 's would be , whoever he is , would be er willing to do it , I do n't know . |
| 10 | The Perm was soon taking pity on Charlie , as people tended to , and Charlie was asking him about the pressures of fame as if it were something that concerned him from day to day . |
| 11 | The young man was asking her about the room , about his chances of getting it , she suddenly heard . |
| 12 | I was asking you about the guy Adam 's been talking to this evening . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | I was telling you about the Queen Mary . |
| 19 | Cos , they was telling us about the weave for the white people and they were showing us a booklet and the |