Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Our vicar was tellin' us about the people who are leadin' the uprisin' in Russia . |
| 2 | Alexander was disporting himself about the boat . |
| 3 | He was saying something about the Hamilton house , a question . |
| 4 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 5 | " Now , I was saying something about the fish-shop on Lyons Dock . |
| 6 | Cos somebody was saying something about the la the last time they got in , it all went |
| 7 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |
| 8 | ‘ She was asking me about the criminal classes , so I was telling her . ’ |
| 9 | I think Alwin and Pat use an auditor cos as you know he 's in business and I 've got a feeling that Alwin was asking me about the auditors the other day , so whether there 's would be , whoever he is , would be er willing to do it , I do n't know . |
| 10 | The Perm was soon taking pity on Charlie , as people tended to , and Charlie was asking him about the pressures of fame as if it were something that concerned him from day to day . |
| 11 | The young man was asking her about the room , about his chances of getting it , she suddenly heard . |
| 12 | I was asking you about the guy Adam 's been talking to this evening . ’ |
| 13 | Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots . |
| 14 | ‘ I was telling him about the Glory , and I said I 'd driven it over and what did he think — was he looking forward to driving it and all that — ’ She paused excitedly . |
| 15 | Coming back to the council last year , some time in May last year , and er I was telling them about the noise and the situation , at the time . |
| 16 | I 'd gone across to the old folks ' home to have a chat with Maureen and , inevitably , I was telling her about the trouble I was having . |
| 17 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 18 | ‘ He was telling me about the Russian visit . ’ |
| 19 | I was telling you about the Queen Mary . |
| 20 | Er well Mark remember I was telling you about the boss that the two there the other night they give er a , a wage rise |
| 21 | In English , Miss J. was telling us about the Blessed Damozel . |
| 22 | I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci . |
| 23 | Cos , they was telling us about the weave for the white people and they were showing us a booklet and the |