Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [pron] about " in BNC.
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1 | So anyway , he erm had his say quite a long story and er the Chairman turned round all of a sudden and he s he could n't say the Chairman er said call him cos that 's what we call him and he said er he said erm would you like to come back to the rostrum again and he said erm you were explaining to me about an accident you had in the quarry in quarry , erm some years back and he said , I 'd like you to explain to these people . |
2 | Complaints were made to us about certain members of our staff ( who , incidentally , no longer work for us ) going into unoccupied floors to make love . |
3 | I found myself constantly making a connection between what new families were saying to me about what they found most helpful from a social worker and what I as a social worker find most helpful from a team leader . |
4 | I knew that you were talking to him about something |
5 | No I do n't know what it was but Catherine was t telling me the other day about how erm oh I told you something about that and you t and you t were talking to her about it . |
6 | And now it is my duty to introduce Doctor and erm I think you said you were talking to us about yourself and erm also a little bit about your holidays ? |
7 | erm what she were arguing with me about is her age . |
8 | Under the persuasion of the Bow Street Runners , information was wrung from them about a meeting of the Wokingham Blacks , and a complete troop of Horse Grenadiers was drafted down to the forest . |
9 | That does n't make her schizophrenic , of course , but it 's the little things , her paranoia , her unkempt appearance … and yesterday she was whispering to me about microphones in the lecture room . |
10 | I was speaking to somebody about this er , a few days ago , and you know they said erm I said , in a way that does n't really apply today , because none of us like to think we 're bad . |
11 | Did you get that bit erm , when I was speaking to you about how everybody hates you and stuff ? |
12 | Well I I think its , the way that the plaintiff puts the case on that point my Lord is that even if the defendant Mr took the view er that it would not have been proper for such a notice to be served , in view of what the plaintiff was saying to him about his wish to get out of the contract , the fact that it was available to him should have been brought to his attention and then as Mr was saying that I sorry I do n't feel I can do this on your behalf because it 's not proper in the circumstances or whatever erm , should then have gone on to advise the plaintiff either to do it himself or to go and seek independent advice . |
13 | Lead words , if you want to sit down and , in , in general you see er , you want to just sit down and think about what you 're doing and what you 're not doing , you can sit down and exercise on these words , now I 'm not saying you 'd ever want to do that , right now if , now you know I was saying to you about comparative questions right |
14 | Remember I was saying to you about the whole of the rag trade ? |
15 | She was muttering to herself about it crossly , and nearly cannoned into Travis , who had stopped in his tracks at the sounds issuing from behind him . |
16 | She was fighting with herself about whether to draw nearer to him , despite the danger of that , and see if he was all right , when he spoke again . |
17 | Privilege elides into Freedom , libertas into libertates again ; the practical sense depended on who was talking to whom about what , and in which circumstances . |
18 | And then I was talking to somebody about this and they and they burst out laughing and said well we 've got a friend , a male friend a mate of mine he said and he loves walking . |
19 | Miss Lucchesi was talking to me about fingering . " |
20 | Erm and when she was talking to me about different people , I 'd never know who they was , because I was never I was never that interested in Bay to er to find out who they was or to remember she 'd point out somebody and say that 's so and so and then when she 'd mention him a couple of days later I 'd go , Who 's that ? |
21 | I s I heard something about somebody was talking to me about it a little while ago . |
22 | Well I was talking to him about it , I said I reckon you 've spent the you 've spent quite a bit now so you might as well just go another get final . |
23 | I was talking to him about that and I got a totally different response from him that I expected did n't mind . |
24 | Charlotte had found something that Emily had written , and was talking to her about it . |
25 | Right , if you just want to come out of there and we 'll just have a look at the plot of the residuals , if you plot the residuals the test for serial correlation there well the test for serial correlation , right , and try and determine whether there 's a auto regressive structure to those parameters and I think Steve was talking to you about er auto regressions , so what the computer is doing essentially , it is getting the residuals from the model raised and it 's regressing them right on the residuals in the previous period , right , and it 's testing whether this parameter row , right , is significantly different from zero right , now if this is , if row is significantly different from zero , let's say it 's nought point six , that implies the residuals in T are not independent of the residuals in T minus one . |
26 | but the point I 'm trying to make is that the person who made the presentation er o o on er for , for the best of riders , I think he 's rather missed the point because he was talking to you about the , including , more information on er within the T V P and we did discuss , er we did like to make it quite clear during our er discussions that riding of horses on the highway is a matter for the T V P , riding horses on bridleways is a matter that we will have to deal with in basic in time . |
27 | was it comparative I was talking to you about ? |
28 | That was a bit of a shock , cos I was dreaming about summat about a train and Marie going away , and then suddenly I came to and found myself in the station . |
29 | She was whining to him about how Eyas Securities had played this awful trick on her , how embarrassing it all was . |
30 | This rather cooled their high spirits , because Missenden 's failure to do what was required of him about some case of ecclesiastical preferment was criticized . |