Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] you about " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then er I were telling you about the er where the marshes was n't I . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That was my auntie and that was the l the woman who gave me that tea set I were telling you about . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I were telling you about that sugar place , we 're doing it again . |
| 6 | Oh yes , I was asking you about John . ’ |
| 7 | I was asking you about the guy Adam 's been talking to this evening . ’ |
| 8 | How difficult was it Mandy to think when Jenny was asking you about your holiday ? |
| 9 | So the , you know that thing I was showing you about , th finding them bones the other night ? |
| 10 | ‘ That 's the name of the worm I was telling you about , ’ said Preston , ‘ the one that lives in canine excreta . |
| 11 | ‘ That policewoman I was telling you about , ’ she exclaimed over her shoulder . |
| 12 | ‘ That philosopher , ’ said Scarlet , who seemed to have forgotten about going home , ‘ the one I was telling you about , he used to go galloping after women all over the place when his hair and his teeth were all falling out , and he used to write about the terrific compassion he felt for the human race , and his breath was foul . |
| 13 | " It 's one of the things I was telling you about . |
| 14 | we , we worked in my shop , that 's what I was telling you about . |
| 15 | Nicole , this is Alyssia , the young girl I was telling you about . |
| 16 | ‘ I played it in the house that I was telling you about . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You remember the girl I was telling you about ? |
| 18 | Besides , I 'll have to oh that er garden party I was telling you about |
| 19 | I was telling you about the Queen Mary . |
| 20 | Erm , there 's a , at the back of that Royalty and Empire magazine , you know it was telling you about Madame Tussaud 's and the London Palladium , somewhere that the wax works that do all the rock and roll the , . |
| 21 | I erm oh I was telling you about those till shorts ! |
| 22 | And you know she said that er I was telling you about ? |
| 23 | But I had a lot to drink and that 's that time I was telling you about . |
| 24 | Oh yeah I I was telling you about that song was n't I . |
| 25 | Er well Mark remember I was telling you about the boss that the two there the other night they give er a , a wage rise |