Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [indef pn] about the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | He was saying something about the Hamilton house , a question . |
| 4 | " Now , I was saying something about the fish-shop on Lyons Dock . |
| 5 | 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 . |