Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] he about " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Perm was soon taking pity on Charlie , as people tended to , and Charlie was asking him about the pressures of fame as if it were something that concerned him from day to day . |
| 5 | His crime has brought him to the extremity which Marmeladov was telling him about and tasting at the bottom of his own vodka jug in the opening pages of the novel . |
| 6 | I got some insight into this when I was telling him about my readings in Zen , and trying to explain the principles of yin and yan . |
| 7 | ‘ I was telling him about the Glory , and I said I 'd driven it over and what did he think — was he looking forward to driving it and all that — ’ She paused excitedly . |
| 8 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 9 | The Indian was telling him about this little fish that lives in the river and — you can guess the rest ! ! ! |
| 10 | Mm my John was in Sale on Saturday when he ran into John he was telling him about his |
| 11 | Anyway our Darren came in , and I 'm gon na forget Darren came to the caravan and I was telling him about these wet sheets and beds and the mirrors done and what I was doing there and Oh he said and about the mattress he said and I said to him mattress , it 's still the same mattress . |