Example sentences of "was [verb] [pers pn] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ She was asking me about the criminal classes , so I was telling her . ’ |
2 | Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots . |
3 | ‘ He was telling me about the Russian visit . ’ |
4 | I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci . |
5 | In English , Miss J. was telling us about the Blessed Damozel . |