Example sentences of "[was/were] say about the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Erm to come back to what we were saying about the paintings |
2 | You were saying about the phone , you were , you were thinking about doing whatever |
3 | So in t erm with your regard to you were saying about the fact that there 's a lot of unemployment in the flats , |
4 | that sideboard off her and we were saying about the manure you know , I said , she said ooh come and |
5 | Little more was said about the case except that several days later , the Sunday Mirror gave the sad outcome of the victim 's ordeal : HOSPITAL AGONY OF THE BIG ‘ UN . |
6 | Thus in Priest v Last [ 1903 ] 2 KB 148 , a hot water bottle burst causing injury to the purchaser 's wife and it was held that there was a breach of the implied condition even though nothing was said about the purpose . |
7 | ‘ Having mot attended a BA conference since Eastbourne 1987 , ’ Mr Giles said , ‘ I was surprised to discover that the conference was somewhat inward-looking , and that so little was said about the consumer , on whom our wages depend . |
8 | Moreover , a closer look at individual patients provides support for what was said about the heterogeneity of groups at the start of this section . |
9 | On the latter subject , the author points to the inconsistent decisions on whether the effect of unambiguous operative provisions can be cut down by the long title and he seems to incline to the view that they can be so affected ; this , perhaps , does not give sufficient weight to what was said about the effect of the preamble in Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover . |
10 | Nothing was said about the good , about the thriving community work and the community centre . |
11 | Little was said about the need to tackle public debt , now running at £15,000 for every man , woman and child in Italy . |
12 | one girl , erm , she was saying , she was saying about the turn taking , and the theory is is that people |
13 | ‘ Anyway , I was saying about the Glyrms : Maurice lost his wife when she was no more'n a girl ; Matthew 's missus walked out an' left him with three children . |
14 | ‘ Back in nineteen forty-four when Claudia was working on her thesis , I understood intellectually ’ — he says the word with a certain fastidiousness — ‘ what she was saying about the Masai , but as a man who knew the country and the natives , or thought I did , I could n't really accept it . |
15 | And then it was saying about the ones where they take the front end of a car and joi , match it to the stolen |
16 | Just one point on perhaps on what Mr Donson was saying about the need for polity statement . |
17 | She quite , I think she liked the area , she was saying about the schools and that . |
18 | ‘ You was saying about the family … ’ |