Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] about [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like a , thousands more , and another thing we knew we we very often , my wife and I were talking about it only the other day , there was an old saying that er er Percy White 's out of prison . |
| 2 | What I was on about me ringing is , she were talking in town , I says , oh , you know we 're Bi I says if ever , I were talking about you first off |
| 3 | ‘ Did you really think I was shouting about them ? |
| 4 | There was another couple of Chelsea fans I was singing about them all the fucking day were n't I ? |
| 5 | I was thinking about me and Reg . |
| 6 | ‘ I was thinking about her too . ’ |
| 7 | I was thinking about her |
| 8 | I was thinking about his while stuck in a traffic jam the other day . |
| 9 | ‘ I have n't worked it out in detail , ’ Melissa admitted , ‘ but I was thinking about it while you were putting her through your puff-and-blow routine … ’ |
| 10 | I was thinking about it yesterday , I suppose — and then I had a dream last night . |
| 11 | er er I do n't know why I was thinking about it yesterday for some reason , oh probably because I got erm the official invite to the er thing on Friday . |
| 12 | They wo n't , I was thinking about it , probably not . |
| 13 | Alice Conway almost jumped back into her kitchen as her daughter swung round now and yelled at her , ‘ It may surprise you to know that I was thinking about you and Father and this house , and the business downstairs . |
| 14 | ‘ I was thinking about you , ’ he said . |
| 15 | I was thinking about you , Tess . ’ |
| 16 | But I was thinking about you only today , as it happened , because … well , for no very good reason . ’ |
| 17 | It 's alright I was thinking about you 've seen |
| 18 | Erm , there is a very small chance that he 's going to say , all the time that I was on , on top of Everest , er , I was thinking about you , because I 've heard you 're the best thing since sliced wholemeal bread , I have three thousand people that I want to put through a programme in the next six weeks . |
| 19 | In now I was reading about him pretty recently |
| 20 | now I was reading about him a few days ago |
| 21 | He 'd said that if I was asked about it , I should act surprised and say it was nothing to do with me . |
| 22 | I was to write about it for Cosmopolitan , she for Trud ; it was the first time she had been outside the Soviet bloc . |
| 23 | But he only listened interestedly because whatever I was saying I was talking about him . |
| 24 | No , I was talking about him . |
| 25 | Yes , I was talking about he used to come over here a lot . |
| 26 | Bill : I was wondering recently what effect the AIDS hysteria has had outside the gay movement and I was talking about it a bit in a pub I use down in Sussex . |
| 27 | And one day she had this other map , and I do n't know where she got that either , or what happened to it She only showed it me the once , and after that whenever I mentioned it she did n't know what I was talking about It was made of something absolutely rigid but incredibly thin . |
| 28 | ‘ I was n't ; it was only when I was talking about it to Gina that I thought I ought to come here and tell you . ’ |
| 29 | Now you know , to be to be honest I was talking about it , I could n't tell you what the average percent is from last year . |
| 30 | I was talking about it the other day and you go and it all comes , it hurts and , and it comes out and you ca n't even hold it down either cos it just comes in your mouth dribbles out the side . |