Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to work for a record company as an office junior ages ago and they were always talking about music as being a packet of cornflakes : you just have to make it look right and make it so it 's easy to recognise and people will buy it . |
| 2 | Probably because most of us were n't really , well , quite a few of us anyway were n't thinking about sex at that time , so I suppose it was kind of you know , you just started |
| 3 | We broke windows accidentally , we were throwing erm in fact I was only talking about whip and top the other day , and erm er which was a a game we used to play . |
| 4 | Um I was just thinking about y'know |
| 5 | No she was just asking about christmas presents . |
| 6 | Yes , this , this actually , thank you Chairman , this actually is very much an example of , of what I was just saying about consultation . |
| 7 | Soldiers wiped out a village in south Sumatra 's Lampung province in 1989 because a zealot was thought to be preaching fundamentalism ( it has emerged he was just griping about land ownership ) . |
| 8 | Kevin was always talking about syntax because he was reading philosophy and this is the kind of thing philosophers talk about . |
| 9 | But Steve had gone off with Maria Luisa for a few days and he was n't thinking about work , that was for sure , and she had n't her freedom anyway ! |
| 10 | Miss Logan , embarrassed by Our Lord 's words to Nicodemus , was instead thinking about bitumen : was that not the material used by artists to blacken the shadows in their paintings ? |
| 11 | He was certainly thinking about fusion as a source of heat in the Earth . |
| 12 | ‘ I was actually thinking about suicide , ’ he confessed to Barbara . |