Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subject presumes perceived er speaker as pr prestigious and authoritative and they perceived that there might be future interaction with him perceived his speech is more similar to their own than subjects who were told nothing about the speaker . |
| 2 | Complaints from the regional Propaganda Offices that neither press , nor radio , nor newsreels were reporting anything about the Führer any longer were to no avail . |
| 3 | What struck me was the way in which he seemed to have little difficulty not merely in coming down to my level but in entering into my feelings , as if I were telling him about the most natural matter in the world . |
| 4 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 5 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 6 | And then er I were telling you about the er where the marshes was n't I . |
| 7 | Er I were telling you about the pianos , in one particular terrace you could just imagine it in , what , nineteen er twenty si no , twenty seven twenty eight , and you know things were bad , you talk about the thirties , the twenties were worse than that . |
| 8 | ‘ Our vicar was tellin' us about the people who are leadin' the uprisin' in Russia . |
| 9 | Alexander was disporting himself about the boat . |
| 10 | He was saying something about the Hamilton house , a question . |
| 11 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 12 | " Now , I was saying something about the fish-shop on Lyons Dock . |
| 13 | Cos somebody was saying something about the la the last time they got in , it all went |
| 14 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |
| 15 | ‘ She was asking me about the criminal classes , so I was telling her . ’ |
| 16 | I think Alwin and Pat use an auditor cos as you know he 's in business and I 've got a feeling that Alwin was asking me about the auditors the other day , so whether there 's would be , whoever he is , would be er willing to do it , I do n't know . |
| 17 | The Perm was soon taking pity on Charlie , as people tended to , and Charlie was asking him about the pressures of fame as if it were something that concerned him from day to day . |
| 18 | The young man was asking her about the room , about his chances of getting it , she suddenly heard . |
| 19 | I was asking you about the guy Adam 's been talking to this evening . ’ |
| 20 | Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 25 | ‘ He was telling me about the Russian visit . ’ |
| 26 | I was telling you about the Queen Mary . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | In English , Miss J. was telling us about the Blessed Damozel . |
| 29 | I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci . |
| 30 | Cos , they was telling us about the weave for the white people and they were showing us a booklet and the |