Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] me about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were tellin' me about this ‘ she ’ , ’ urged Andra with relish . |
| 2 | They put the ideas together and I suddenly became aware that they were teaching me about substitutionary atonement . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , I was down there because they were questioning me about some old clothes . |
| 6 | ‘ By the way Bill , ’ Yanto turned enquiringly , ‘ has Bert Midgeley still got that motorbike combination you were telling me about ? ’ |
| 7 | Louise , you were telling me about Roger Clarke . |
| 8 | " What was it you were telling me about Cowslip ? |
| 9 | You were telling me about your husband . ’ |
| 10 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 11 | Is it you were telling me about you you you caught kids sniffing methane was it ? |
| 12 | Erm you were telling me about religion about the fact that you went to church . |
| 13 | You were telling me about your uncle . |
| 14 | ‘ You were telling me about a party . ’ |
| 15 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 16 | Anyway , you were telling me about meals . |
| 17 | ‘ She was asking me about the criminal classes , so I was telling her . ’ |
| 18 | He was asking me about some man called Payne who seems to have died years ago . |
| 19 | But well Evelyn was asking me about reading and writing but first of all she asked did we still go to you see and I said no I sa we s I said we decided it did n't suit him . |
| 20 | But he said , I said it as a joke when she was asking me about my flying and I said I do n't do as much flying as I 'd like to , I 've , I 've got a wife to support and she takes all the money . |
| 21 | I think Alwin and Pat use an auditor cos as you know he 's in business and I 've got a feeling that Alwin was asking me about the auditors the other day , so whether there 's would be , whoever he is , would be er willing to do it , I do n't know . |
| 22 | Like cos he was asking me about Shane |
| 23 | He was ribbing me about how I could never score against United under him . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She was telling me about Uncle Titch . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ And , say , Curtis was telling me about these things , these weird things . |
| 27 | Do you know , yesterday he was telling me about his past . |
| 28 | Li Yuan was telling me about it yesterday . |
| 29 | Then a long time after that , it was May , and I 'd been the night before , but he was out ( or in bed with someone ? ) and that evening he was in and alone , and we talked some time ( he was telling me about John Minton ) and then he put on an Indian record and we were quiet . |
| 30 | Des was telling me about when they were in training for the Commandos . |