Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cricklewoods I think were selling them about sort of fifteen quid each . |
| 2 | This may seem a minor disagreement , but if you were to question me about Panofsky , I would have to say that the disagreement was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 3 | At the time , people felt they had secure jobs er in the M O D and the dockyard and so people accepted that with pensions and everything that goes with that sort of secure job , now of course the whole situation is enormously diff different and I was saying to , I have some French people staying with me this morning and I was , they were asking me about wages and I was saying to my daughter who works er on a Thursday evening in the local Sainsburys , earns more per hour than a friend of mine , well two friends of mine , one of whom is a carpenter , a fully qualified carpenter and the other is a motor mechanic , and that 's an indication of the sort of level of wages that people are paid in this area . |
| 4 | Louise , you were telling me about Roger Clarke . |
| 5 | Anyway , you were telling me about meals . |
| 6 | Erm you were telling me about religion about the fact that you went to church . |
| 7 | " What was it you were telling me about Cowslip ? |
| 8 | I were telling you about Irene , I were filling this thing in and I put right , sixty four I were gon na put sixty four , that were it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Earlier on he was saying something about paint . ’ |
| 11 | But well Evelyn was asking me about reading and writing but first of all she asked did we still go to you see and I said no I sa we s I said we decided it did n't suit him . |
| 12 | Like cos he was asking me about Shane |
| 13 | But no , he was asking her about Mathilde , about Katherine . |
| 14 | In the hallway , Nina was asking someone about Clive . |
| 15 | Oh yes , I was asking you about John . ’ |
| 16 | She already felt that she was learning something about art . |
| 17 | ‘ The whole stupid , f—ing happy idea of putting the song on the album was to say something about struggle , ’ adds Fruitbat . |
| 18 | Juliet explained how it had all started , then she found she was telling her about Mrs Maybury and Celia . |
| 19 | Presumably Billykins was telling her about Donald the Gourmet Cook , Donald the Great Fighter for Social Change , Donald the Novelist . |
| 20 | Who was , when Molly was telling me about Jason , when Jason sa , I could have murdered Ryan doing that ! |
| 21 | We were sitting there and she was telling me about Brian . |
| 22 | Then a long time after that , it was May , and I 'd been the night before , but he was out ( or in bed with someone ? ) and that evening he was in and alone , and we talked some time ( he was telling me about John Minton ) and then he put on an Indian record and we were quiet . |
| 23 | She and er she was telling me about David 's mama , she said David 's mama |
| 24 | She was telling me about Uncle Titch . ’ |
| 25 | Erm , there 's a , at the back of that Royalty and Empire magazine , you know it was telling you about Madame Tussaud 's and the London Palladium , somewhere that the wax works that do all the rock and roll the , . |
| 26 | Well that policem that police woman was telling us about Southall Road di |
| 27 | She was babbling something about helicopters . |