Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [pron] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | more through magazines than I did at school , because in school I was taught nothing about pleasure , it was all very biological with a diagram of the male and the female , exactly what happened , there was nothing about er , sexually transmitted diseases , pleasure or abortion , contraception , nothing mentioned , only the mere basics . |
| 2 | I was telling her about our need of somewhere to meet , and she said she would love to help us but that Mr. Olinton would n't hear of it . |
| 3 | I 'd gone across to the old folks ' home to have a chat with Maureen and , inevitably , I was telling her about the trouble I was having . |
| 4 | The other day I was telling her about something that had happened , crying as I told the story , and she started crying too . |
| 5 | I was telling her about |
| 6 | I got some insight into this when I was telling him about my readings in Zen , and trying to explain the principles of yin and yan . |
| 7 | ‘ I was telling him about the Glory , and I said I 'd driven it over and what did he think — was he looking forward to driving it and all that — ’ She paused excitedly . |
| 8 | Anyway our Darren came in , and I 'm gon na forget Darren came to the caravan and I was telling him about these wet sheets and beds and the mirrors done and what I was doing there and Oh he said and about the mattress he said and I said to him mattress , it 's still the same mattress . |
| 9 | and I was telling them about that Indian or Asian doctor at the City Hospital in the Maternity unit . |
| 10 | Coming back to the council last year , some time in May last year , and er I was telling them about the noise and the situation , at the time . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's the name of the worm I was telling you about , ’ said Preston , ‘ the one that lives in canine excreta . |
| 12 | ‘ That policewoman I was telling you about , ’ she exclaimed over her shoulder . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | " It 's one of the things I was telling you about . |
| 15 | we , we worked in my shop , that 's what I was telling you about . |
| 16 | Nicole , this is Alyssia , the young girl I was telling you about . |
| 17 | ‘ I played it in the house that I was telling you about . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You remember the girl I was telling you about ? |
| 19 | Besides , I 'll have to oh that er garden party I was telling you about |
| 20 | I was telling you about the Queen Mary . |
| 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 |
| 26 | Oh yes , I was asking you about John . ’ |
| 27 | I was asking you about the guy Adam 's been talking to this evening . ’ |
| 28 | So the , you know that thing I was showing you about , th finding them bones the other night ? |
| 29 | I was taken into the , my wife died in January of nineteen eighty nine , I was taken into the local psychiatric hospital at in the December of nineteen eighty nine and I was told I was gon na be given an experimental drug , I was told nothing about it or any anything to do with any of the side effects , I I was in th I was on Prozac for about four days , I suffered horrendous side effects , shaking and one thing and another . |
| 30 | " Now , I was saying something about the fish-shop on Lyons Dock . |