Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men still do this — they talk of men 's struggles , movements and characteristics as if they were writing about the whole class . |
| 2 | And yet they were writing about the same place , and both of them knew it intimately , and had known it for years . |
| 3 | ‘ They simply ignored the advice they were receiving about the likely size of the teachers ’ pay award and are now going around scaremongering . |
| 4 | The Jones did ask what they were to do about the other problems . |
| 5 | Well they were talking about the eleven plus you see |
| 6 | 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 . |