Example sentences of "[was/were] always [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | It worries the lawyers , and the insurance company were always fussing about keeping it in a private house . |
| 2 | It all seemed too large , too over-provided-for to feed them and the stunted attendants , even if there were a few more of them than they 'd seen until now ( and they were always complaining about being short-staffed , anyway ) . |
| 3 | I used to work for a record company as an office junior ages ago and they were always talking about music as being a packet of cornflakes : you just have to make it look right and make it so it 's easy to recognise and people will buy it . |
| 4 | Then she realised that it must be Ianthe Broome , the canon 's daughter they were always talking about , and perhaps in some way a kind of ‘ rival ’ for the affections of a man she had not yet seen . |
| 5 | He was always screaming about how they dumped on him . |
| 6 | He was always talking about Jutland . |
| 7 | He was always talking about the board he was having shaped back in Sydney . |
| 8 | One of the things that surprised me when I first read the New Testament seriously was that it was always talking about a Dark Power in the universe — a mighty evil spirit who was held to be the Power behind death and disease , and sin . |
| 9 | ‘ He was always talking about the past but I wanted to introduce him to the present . |
| 10 | At every step I was told not to do it because I was bound to suffer from the kind of prejudice I was always talking about . |
| 11 | He was always talking about it and it caused much worry to his mother Sadie and her husband Daniel . |
| 12 | William suggested , because she 'd just bought Mary Ann Evans 's and was always talking about the trouble she was having finding good staff . |
| 13 | She was always talking about you . |
| 14 | He was always talking about it . |
| 15 | He was er me mother 's chief objection to him , it was me father 's father , me mother 's chief objection was that he was always talking about revolutions and she could n't stand this you know . |
| 16 | and erm he was always talking about erm different types of lathe and chucks and things like that and er , none of us had any idea what he was |
| 17 | ‘ He was always talking about being saved . |
| 18 | ‘ The man Angy was always talking about ? |
| 19 | Syntax is what my friend Kevin Rice , who was at Manchester with me , was always talking about . |
| 20 | Kevin was always talking about syntax because he was reading philosophy and this is the kind of thing philosophers talk about . |