Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long before the Gulf crisis , American , British and French ministries of defence were warning about the new threat from the South — the increase in missiles and chemical weapons , the danger of fanatics , fundamentalists , drug traffickers and so forth . |
| 2 | Men still do this — they talk of men 's struggles , movements and characteristics as if they were writing about the whole class . |
| 3 | And yet they were writing about the same place , and both of them knew it intimately , and had known it for years . |
| 4 | Even the farmers and growers were complaining about the awful conditions . |
| 5 | The R5 commentators were complaining about the first half saying how rubbish it was — Mike Ingham , the worst scum lover . |
| 6 | Last week listeners were complaining about the supposed increase in American accents on Radio 4 ( ‘ I am sick to the back teeth of hearing these American voices ’ ) . |
| 7 | Riven 's legs were complaining about the unaccustomed riding and the wind made his eyes water . |
| 8 | Maelmuire has nothing to fear from you now , nor have I. What was that you were saying about the next generation — and where and what they would rule ? |
| 9 | Members of all three shifts were milling about the circular room : repeating rumours , distorting facts and generally hyping themselves up . |
| 10 | Various members of the cast were lolling about the Green Room , in various stages of shell-shock . |
| 11 | It 's not In some cases like erm the diagram you were doing about the two girls running , erm then the distance against time gradient will give you speed , give you velocity . |
| 12 | We 've been talking about them as facilitators and the need for compatibility , I think there 's also a need for every system to have a back-up of some kind , either of power or maybe a manual back-up , which in fact we were talking about the other evening . |
| 13 | Soon all my master 's neighbours were talking about the strange little creature he had found in a field . |
| 14 | We were talking about the new settlement . |
| 15 | Now just to give you some figures I mean same tariff that 's the world price supplied the rest of the world , in fact the tariff on it show them that the operation of a a tariff can affect erm world prices and just to give you some idea erm ah , can we just you know when we were talking about the net economic costs well they 're within the European Community , those costs . |
| 16 | So if we were talking about the Middle Ages we had Gregorian chants , or if we were doing the First World War we had First-world-war songs . |
| 17 | And , of course , in no time at all , we were talking about the one thing that obsessed every one of us , cancer . |
| 18 | What we were talking about the poor peasants last week , the week before last , they 're not that poor they 're |
| 19 | Well we were talking about the general lack of faith in governments |
| 20 | Well they were talking about the eleven plus you see |
| 21 | You were saying this morning on the end of the news you were talking about the four man |
| 22 | If the scanners were to be believed , two people were talking about the same matters in similar terms night after night . |
| 23 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
| 24 | ‘ Afterwards some of the children were talking about the Three Wise Queens . ’ |
| 25 | But erm er and , and she said erm you know the little , we were talking about the little corner shop and how they used to keep open all hours . |
| 26 | We were talking about the National Executive Committee and she was thinking of standing for the women 's section . |
| 27 | Output thereafter went up so that the women were earning about the same as before the job was changed . |
| 28 | I expect you were thinking about the virginal conception of Jesus which is described in the Gospels of Mathew and Luke . |
| 29 | ‘ They simply ignored the advice they were receiving about the likely size of the teachers ’ pay award and are now going around scaremongering . |
| 30 | I caught an early edition , read about the ruckus , and thought I 'd better come home and see what was happening about the five grand . ’ |