Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pers pn] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were tellin' me about this ‘ she ’ , ’ urged Andra with relish . |
| 2 | Cricklewoods I think were selling them about sort of fifteen quid each . |
| 3 | They put the ideas together and I suddenly became aware that they were teaching me about substitutionary atonement . |
| 4 | This may seem a minor disagreement , but if you were to question me about Panofsky , I would have to say that the disagreement was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 5 | At the time , people felt they had secure jobs er in the M O D and the dockyard and so people accepted that with pensions and everything that goes with that sort of secure job , now of course the whole situation is enormously diff different and I was saying to , I have some French people staying with me this morning and I was , they were asking me about wages and I was saying to my daughter who works er on a Thursday evening in the local Sainsburys , earns more per hour than a friend of mine , well two friends of mine , one of whom is a carpenter , a fully qualified carpenter and the other is a motor mechanic , and that 's an indication of the sort of level of wages that people are paid in this area . |
| 6 | yes but you were , forgive me Lord you were asking him about deliberate er deceit or there would n't be any point in deliberately , get the exact word , misleading the prospective purchaser |
| 7 | Erm the other thing that , that I could n't quite hear but I thought when you were asking him about where he 'd been with the navy , I thought he said to the Far East unfortunately . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , I was down there because they were questioning me about some old clothes . |
| 9 | I found it difficult to keep going because of the hypothetical situation you know we were talking it about it early |
| 10 | On the bus home that day , she wondered what her parents would have to say , if she were to ask them about it . |
| 11 | What struck me was the way in which he seemed to have little difficulty not merely in coming down to my level but in entering into my feelings , as if I were telling him about the most natural matter in the world . |
| 12 | With a mountain upbringing , Myles Horton developed the idea of Highlander in an attempt to come to grips with the problems which were really facing the mountain people of Appalachia and the rural south , the day to day problems which these communities perceived as being obstacles to them , rather than necessarily those which planners , developers and politicians were telling them about . |
| 13 | ‘ By the way Bill , ’ Yanto turned enquiringly , ‘ has Bert Midgeley still got that motorbike combination you were telling me about ? ’ |
| 14 | Louise , you were telling me about Roger Clarke . |
| 15 | " What was it you were telling me about Cowslip ? |
| 16 | You were telling me about your husband . ’ |
| 17 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 18 | Is it you were telling me about you you you caught kids sniffing methane was it ? |
| 19 | Erm you were telling me about religion about the fact that you went to church . |
| 20 | You were telling me about your uncle . |
| 21 | ‘ You were telling me about a party . ’ |
| 22 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 23 | Anyway , you were telling me about meals . |
| 24 | And then er I were telling you about the er where the marshes was n't I . |
| 25 | Er I were telling you about the pianos , in one particular terrace you could just imagine it in , what , nineteen er twenty si no , twenty seven twenty eight , and you know things were bad , you talk about the thirties , the twenties were worse than that . |
| 26 | That was my auntie and that was the l the woman who gave me that tea set I were telling you about . |
| 27 | I were telling you about Irene , I were filling this thing in and I put right , sixty four I were gon na put sixty four , that were it . |
| 28 | I were telling you about that sugar place , we 're doing it again . |
| 29 | In general , the answers from different types of respondent did not differ all that widely and the variations that emerged seemed , for the most part , understandable in terms of the characteristics and circumstances of the people they were telling us about , although there did seem to be a tendency for the staff of homes to put a more rosy interpretation on situations . |
| 30 | There used to be a cafe , a cute ; the er you used to go in and have a cup of tea and that and yo , he started selling jam , pots of jam with they had him in court , it was er it had fell off a lorry and he was selling it a bit cheap and er he were telling us about it . |