Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 2 | ‘ She was asking me about the criminal classes , so I was telling her . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ He was telling me about the Russian visit . ’ |
| 5 | I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci . |
| 6 | In English , Miss J. was telling us about the Blessed Damozel . |