Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [to-vb] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good intentions , of course , are said to pave the way to hell , but one must , like Edward Teller , be optimistic , so I turned to it ( 9 February ) to watch the rubbing together of two creative intellects , those of John Berger and Susan Sontag who were to discuss/argue/disagree about storytelling . |
| 2 | I suppose if one were to wonder about schizophrenia or playing the part too much , it 's like an actor who does a film and the film is very successful and he plays Gatsby in the film , and then they never stop wearing 30 's tennis whites . |
| 3 | It was all very well for Connie to say , as she sometimes did , that Scarlet 's therapist might know all there was to know about psychoanalysis but clearly knew sod-all about human nature . |
| 4 | With my father I had more difficulty : all I could do with him was to argue about literature , citing my teachers ' opinions as being more up-to-date and therefore more valid than his own . |
| 5 | Was n't it just as neat and unlikely to blame the parents as it was to talk about possession by devils ? |