Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] about [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm these things used to used to sort of wind the r the the the spring or the leather thong around th top and start it off to spinning you know and then you 'd keep whipping it like that and you could make these things jump into the air , in fact a friend of mine was telling me , we were talking about it the other day . |
| 2 | Long political screeds were attached about what the paper should be like , pleading justifications of position and talent . |
| 3 | Nothing more was said about what the scope of review for administrative institutions and inferior courts actually was and no dichotomy was drawn between them . |
| 4 | But I was told about it the night before I was released ! |
| 5 | Perhaps I was going about it the wrong way . |
| 6 | Last night , very little was known about what the three men had been doing . |
| 7 | The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point , which is not very different from the point that I was making about what the governor of Brixton prison knew several months before those IRA terrorists broke out . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Anyhow , he , he bakes bread and he was talking about it the other day and I said oh that 's lovely homemade bread . |