Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] about [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Um I was just thinking about y'know
2 Yes , this , this actually , thank you Chairman , this actually is very much an example of , of what I was just saying about consultation .
3 I was actually thinking about suicide , ’ he confessed to Barbara .
4 We broke windows accidentally , we were throwing erm in fact I was only talking about whip and top the other day , and erm er which was a a game we used to play .
5 No she was just asking about christmas presents .
6 I used to work for a record company as an office junior ages ago and they were always talking about music as being a packet of cornflakes : you just have to make it look right and make it so it 's easy to recognise and people will buy it .
7 Soldiers wiped out a village in south Sumatra 's Lampung province in 1989 because a zealot was thought to be preaching fundamentalism ( it has emerged he was just griping about land ownership ) .
8 He was certainly thinking about fusion as a source of heat in the Earth .
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