Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [verb] about the " in BNC.

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1 We saw a Civil Defence exercise in Tyne and Wear where local government officials , obviously not in peak condition , rushed about and contemplated what they were going to do about the rain of megatonne weapons that was being dumped on their ratepayers .
2 I were going to talk about the problems of an ex Premier League football manager today .
3 But there 's a lot if we were going to talk about the m relative merits of the inner and outer today , I think er there 's quite a lot in addition to the er the traffic effects within Knaresborough which we would have to go into er er because I mean , in fact we 've and that is why I did n't include in certainly in my statement , er any defence er in any great detail of choosing an outer route as opposed to an inner route .
4 Yet although the cherubic muse blowing its horn for the brave new world seemed to the Festival staff to sum up the kind of things they were trying to say about the EIF , there remained one potent snag .
5 In the end , they shipped us out because I was going to complain about the doctor .
6 ‘ Some of the other customers stood up and demanded to know what the Chancellor was going to do about the economy , ’ says proprietor Moziruddin Ahmed , who was far too discreet to say whether Mr Lamont paid by Access .
7 Ross had , in fact , been quite right — and what she was going to do about the problem , she simply had no idea .
8 He will be joined by local MP Michael Fallon and Hartlepool Conservative candidate Graham Robb who yesterday said it was high time Labour told the voters what it was going to do about the continuing problems of congestion and accidents on the A1(M) .
9 I was going to say about the mother of parliament .
10 Oh by the way Miss Hall do you know anything , said P C Garfield , well said Jane I was n't going to tell , but I think Mr Sandy and their assistant knows something about it , because about twelve thirty this morning I was going to report about the cobwebs and dampness on the walls and I heard Mr Sandy and his assistant talking in the back room .
11 Phoebe had decided she was going to lie about the amount she drank .
12 The newsmen thought he was going to talk about the club 's prospects for the new soccer season .
13 When Seb was beginning to worry about the task , Carrie arrived at the farm , carried there on the back of a horse ridden by her father .
14 I was meaning to ask about the would you you would n't have any idea the number of people who would have been in your your early days here ?
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