Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They were writing about the country , but they were n't from it . |
| 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 | ‘ They simply ignored the advice they were receiving about the likely size of the teachers ’ pay award and are now going around scaremongering . |
| 5 | The older ones were pleased because they would get a lot of money , the younger ones were upset because they were thinking about the future . |
| 6 | The Jones did ask what they were to do about the other problems . |
| 7 | They claim they were misled about the number of people who 'd be attending the show — the first to be held . |
| 8 | They were chatting about the weekend while Diana , ever the Cinderella , was on her knees cleaning the kitchen floor . |
| 9 | They were chatting about the tournament and John of Gaunt 's invitation when Cranston stopped as he heard a sound behind them : a slithering across the cobbles . |
| 10 | Only between twenty and thirty guests were left and they were scattered about the gardens like so much confetti . |
| 11 | They 've been in touch with the undertaker and when I left they were arguing about the funeral . ’ |
| 12 | They were told about the successes — and pitfalls — of recycling schemes in action , EEC legislation , and given an industry update . |
| 13 | There 's no doubt about it , the government should do a lot more and I 'm sorry to leave on this kind of basic note , the thing what really got was when they were talking about the coal miners and I mean , I know that particular area quite well , where they , they said we 'll put some money in for training ! |
| 14 | They were talking about the House of Representatives at Weimar — ‘ That troublesome place ’ , as the T'ang continually called it — and about ways of shoring up the tenuous peace that now existed between it and the Seven . |
| 15 | Pulled them up by their boot strings , was what he said , but then they were talking about the Treaty of Versailles and about war reparations being hard on Germany . ’ |
| 16 | Well they were talking about the eleven plus you see |
| 17 | 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 . |