Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was thinking about the relative merits of a bottle or two of Ruddles from the fridge or a glass or two of Sancerre or even , in the circumstances , something stronger , when there was a knock on my door . |
| 2 | I was silent too , because I was thinking about the old man . |
| 3 | Oh I was reading about the twenty three stone ! |
| 4 | Last week if you remember I was talking about the primary concern of the state , a concern er which is paramount is a concern for its security and I said if you remember that there was an approach er toward the study of international politics called realism which stressed the importance of what has been termed the power security hypothesis . |
| 5 | Yes , of course they are , but we , I was talking about the old sort of diesel multiple unit . |
| 6 | I expect you were thinking about the virginal conception of Jesus which is described in the Gospels of Mathew and Luke . |
| 7 | You were saying this morning on the end of the news you were talking about the four man |
| 8 | It 's not In some cases like erm the diagram you were doing about the two girls running , erm then the distance against time gradient will give you speed , give you velocity . |
| 9 | Maelmuire has nothing to fear from you now , nor have I. What was that you were saying about the next generation — and where and what they would rule ? |
| 10 | And , of course , in no time at all , we were talking about the one thing that obsessed every one of us , cancer . |
| 11 | So if we were talking about the Middle Ages we had Gregorian chants , or if we were doing the First World War we had First-world-war songs . |
| 12 | We 've been talking about them as facilitators and the need for compatibility , I think there 's also a need for every system to have a back-up of some kind , either of power or maybe a manual back-up , which in fact we were talking about the other evening . |
| 13 | We were talking about the new settlement . |
| 14 | What we were talking about the poor peasants last week , the week before last , they 're not that poor they 're |
| 15 | Well we were talking about the general lack of faith in governments |
| 16 | Now just to give you some figures I mean same tariff that 's the world price supplied the rest of the world , in fact the tariff on it show them that the operation of a a tariff can affect erm world prices and just to give you some idea erm ah , can we just you know when we were talking about the net economic costs well they 're within the European Community , those costs . |
| 17 | But erm er and , and she said erm you know the little , we were talking about the little corner shop and how they used to keep open all hours . |
| 18 | We were talking about the National Executive Committee and she was thinking of standing for the women 's section . |
| 19 | Again we were told about the unjustified actions of the British Army in shooting these men . |
| 20 | Dave even came up with an idea we was talking about the other day . |
| 21 | Men still do this — they talk of men 's struggles , movements and characteristics as if they were writing about the whole class . |
| 22 | And yet they were writing about the same place , and both of them knew it intimately , and had known it for years . |
| 23 | ‘ They simply ignored the advice they were receiving about the likely size of the teachers ’ pay award and are now going around scaremongering . |
| 24 | The Jones did ask what they were to do about the other problems . |
| 25 | Well they were talking about the eleven plus you see |
| 26 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
| 27 | A large man in a purple pin-striped suit standing behind her was complaining about the political bias shown by the BBC . |
| 28 | It was protesting about the proposed sale of British Telecom to private industry and the threatened guillotine on the committee stage of the Bill . |
| 29 | The Unix festival , UniForum ‘ 93 , did n't feel as successful a show as it was last year : it was spread out over a lot more acreage and split into two widely separated pavilions , and attendance looked sparse and the aisles empty despite show management 's claims of a 10% increase in traffic — like as not , it was talking about the pre-registration which was up , but unofficially we hear attendance was down ; UniForum is still more a Unix celebration than anything else but it remains to be seen whether there will still be things to celebrate or whether erosion has set in . |
| 30 | In September Leslie 's 5th Brigade found itself part of the 4th Indian Division , and it was with this famous fighting force that he was to spend about the next nine months . |