Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was thinking about the Pitts , and he was thinking about his sister . |
| 2 | She was wandering about the room , pulling the covers up on the bed and tidying up half-heartedly , waiting for the kettle on the gas-ring to boil . |
| 3 | She was moving about the room now , balancing painfully but stoically on her high heels , taking empty cups and plates from each of her guests with a gentle murmur for every one of them . |
| 4 | She was reading about the palimony trial in California . |
| 5 | I do n't think she was pretending about the French . |
| 6 | ‘ She was talking about the cherries , ’ he told Michael . |
| 7 | And when she was talking about the clash between her feelings and her principles , she had been desperately serious . |
| 8 | She was talking about the snake that is in all of us all the time ! ’ |
| 9 | One of the ladies that she was talking about the dogs she said Freda you see . |
| 10 | She 'll come about , that was about five years ago and and she was talking about the schock and half , half the panel er da did n't even know , they could n't even spell it . |
| 11 | She 'd gone into labour when she was told about the Antelope , and Martin was born about a month premature . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | She quite , I think she liked the area , she was saying about the schools and that . |
| 14 | And she was saying about the , she said that it was right wa , what was , it was quite bad in the car cos you right , like laughing , joking things like that . |
| 15 | one girl , erm , she was saying , she was saying about the turn taking , and the theory is is that people |