Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I I actually must have read completely different to anybody else from what I 've been hearing , erm the way I looked at it , the situation that we have locally compared with what David was saying about the national erm what government are doing nationally and the situation we have here in Cambridge city . |
| 2 | When Ian Byatt was asked about the ferocious profits made by the water companies , the former Treasury mandarin ( salary around £70,000 a year ) observed that too much profit-bashing would kill incentive to improve efficiency . |
| 3 | While all this was going on , of course , Carol was flitting about the opposite side of the shop helping herself from the shelves and tossing things into the pushchair , which with the canopy zipped up was acting as an oversize shopping trolley . |
| 4 | And Pam was shouting about the bloody cholesterol ! |
| 5 | Me and Emma was talking about the flipping things she gets up to with Scott . |