Example sentences of "[was/were] tell [pron] about [art] [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 | ‘ You were telling me about a party . ’ |
| 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was telling her about a holiday in Greece instead . |
| 8 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | you was telling me about a suit . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | I was telling you about the Queen Mary . |
| 14 | I thought he was telling us about a mountain he climbed . |
| 15 | Cos , they was telling us about the weave for the white people and they were showing us a booklet and the |