Example sentences of "[was/were] tell [pron] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were telling me about a party . ’ |
| 2 | The point that I want to reiterate here , before extending this concept of structure theoretically , is that in the drama process the surface meaning of the event , the meaning which in fact would play a large part if we were to tell it as a story — ‘ And the townsfolk listened to the Government representative and they had to come to a decision ’ — may not provide the required game structure . |
| 3 | He was telling her about a holiday in Greece instead . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | you was telling me about a suit . |
| 6 | I thought he was telling us about a mountain he climbed . |