Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] about [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them were black ; now black and white girls were singing about their boyfriends . |
| 2 | When 60 random advice workers from the West Midlands were polled about their most recent training experiences and their personal training needs , the conflict was apparent . |
| 3 | She gave a similarly flippant answer when inquiries were made about her shorthand skills : ‘ Longhand and memory , ’ was her answer . |
| 4 | He taught English at the Bredon Hill Middle School near Evesham , but was suspended from his duties when the allegations were made about his dealings with youngsters , who were not from the school . |
| 5 | You certainly knew what they thought about the way you were going about your job as Chief Constable . |
| 6 | His face throbbed and his eyeball was seared by the white glare through which the dark figures of the men were moving about their work . |
| 7 | Thus , in the immediate post-war years the WEA came under considerable pressure from two more powerful providers and doubts were raised about its future as a recognised Responsible Body — an issue which was closely addressed by the Ashby Committee in 1953 , and again raised by the Russell Committee some twenty years later . |
| 8 | Soft knee-high boots , fashioned of calf-hide for light indoor use , were laced about his leggings . |
| 9 | They were complaining about their telephone bill it was er thirty seven pounds . |
| 10 | People were commenting about her gifts and abilities . |
| 11 | ‘ Probably everybody from what you were saying about her ability to keep a secret . ’ |
| 12 | and we were saying about her mum , Mrs do n't you knacker them B guns ! |
| 13 | Yeah you were saying about you said you said about erm the insurance , you were saying about that and what you were saying about your electricity . |
| 14 | At the Angel , you were asking about my book . |
| 15 | ‘ We were asking about your sister 's position at Yeo Davis . |
| 16 | People and cars and buses were scurrying about their daily business . |
| 17 | In a recent survey carried out for New Woman magazine , 500 women aged between 20 and 45 were asked about their personal experiences of losing weight . |
| 18 | This is a Quaker family ; they were asked about their religion and the form of worship they followed . |
| 19 | Those listeners who also had television sets were asked about their viewing . |
| 20 | The welfare assistants were asked about their experience before taking up their current post . |
| 21 | The most significant Unix users in Great Britain were asked about their Unix installations , intentions and preferences . |
| 22 | Non-medical staff were asked about their involvement in the decision to apply for fundholding status ; perceived costs and benefits ; and the impact of fundholding on work , use of computers , and patients . |
| 23 | Both sufferers and non-sufferers were asked about their perception as to the cause of incontinence ( table VI ) . |
| 24 | More than 7,000 people in England , Scotland and Wales were asked about their coffee and tea-drinking habits and given simple tests of their reaction times , memory and reasoning . |
| 25 | They were talking about her job , she reminded herself . |
| 26 | Right you were talking about its affect on children |
| 27 | I I think you were all here listening to the erm pensioners before you were they were talking about their ideas which were also our ideas in our er report on the designated ownership of , of the pension funds and in particular they had a couple of ideas which you may have heard about having the word pension in the in the names , just technical points , er pension in the names of er of the funds and and people who were er giving advice on behalf of them . |
| 28 | Callahan said to Chang : ‘ Yesterday you were talking about your shaper like he was your priest , as if you were having communion together . |
| 29 | We were talking about your project . ’ |
| 30 | When you were talking about your dredging earlier on , you used to take th the soil that you dredged up in the mud , in your dredger out t employ the hoppers out to sea . |