Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [v-ing] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the vidscreen a priest was eulogizing about the next life . |
| 2 | Various members of the cast were lolling about the Green Room , in various stages of shell-shock . |
| 3 | In high spirits , his father was talking about the immense advances made in forensic science in recent years . |
| 4 | New investment per employed worker in US manufacturing in 1955 was running at about 1.6 times the European level , and nearly five times that of Japan ; by 1970 US manufacturing was investing about the same per worker as European industry and one-third less than Japanese . |
| 5 | Long before the Gulf crisis , American , British and French ministries of defence were warning about the new threat from the South — the increase in missiles and chemical weapons , the danger of fanatics , fundamentalists , drug traffickers and so forth . |
| 6 | No one this time was talking about the next fight . |