Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] i about [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You were tellin' me about this ‘ she ’ , ’ urged Andra with relish .
2 They put the ideas together and I suddenly became aware that they were teaching me about substitutionary atonement .
3 ‘ Yes , I was down there because they were questioning me about some old clothes .
4 He was asking me about some man called Payne who seems to have died years ago .
5 ‘ And , say , Curtis was telling me about these things , these weird things .
6 My boss was telling me about some old boy right he had a beard for all his life yeah ?
7 So everybody was telling me about this so I went away over and had a look at it .
8 She teaches English , and she was telling me about this don who 's disappeared .
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