Example sentences of "were [verb] [pron] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were tellin' me about this ‘ she ’ , ’ urged Andra with relish . |
| 2 | Cricklewoods I think were selling them about sort of fifteen quid each . |
| 3 | Subject presumes perceived er speaker as pr prestigious and authoritative and they perceived that there might be future interaction with him perceived his speech is more similar to their own than subjects who were told nothing about the speaker . |
| 4 | ‘ Ratepayers were told nothing about this before , yet they will be having to foot the bill . |
| 5 | They put the ideas together and I suddenly became aware that they were teaching me about substitutionary atonement . |
| 6 | Complaints from the regional Propaganda Offices that neither press , nor radio , nor newsreels were reporting anything about the Führer any longer were to no avail . |
| 7 | Erm now next week you were saying something about you 'd like one on Easter Monday , I wo n't actually be here . |
| 8 | This may seem a minor disagreement , but if you were to question me about Panofsky , I would have to say that the disagreement was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 9 | At the time , people felt they had secure jobs er in the M O D and the dockyard and so people accepted that with pensions and everything that goes with that sort of secure job , now of course the whole situation is enormously diff different and I was saying to , I have some French people staying with me this morning and I was , they were asking me about wages and I was saying to my daughter who works er on a Thursday evening in the local Sainsburys , earns more per hour than a friend of mine , well two friends of mine , one of whom is a carpenter , a fully qualified carpenter and the other is a motor mechanic , and that 's an indication of the sort of level of wages that people are paid in this area . |
| 10 | yes but you were , forgive me Lord you were asking him about deliberate er deceit or there would n't be any point in deliberately , get the exact word , misleading the prospective purchaser |
| 11 | Erm the other thing that , that I could n't quite hear but I thought when you were asking him about where he 'd been with the navy , I thought he said to the Far East unfortunately . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , I was down there because they were questioning me about some old clothes . |
| 13 | I found it difficult to keep going because of the hypothetical situation you know we were talking it about it early |
| 14 | There is the question of professional indemnity which I shall return to shortly because I think it might be helpful if the minister were to say something about that . |
| 15 | On the bus home that day , she wondered what her parents would have to say , if she were to ask them about it . |
| 16 | What struck me was the way in which he seemed to have little difficulty not merely in coming down to my level but in entering into my feelings , as if I were telling him about the most natural matter in the world . |
| 17 | With a mountain upbringing , Myles Horton developed the idea of Highlander in an attempt to come to grips with the problems which were really facing the mountain people of Appalachia and the rural south , the day to day problems which these communities perceived as being obstacles to them , rather than necessarily those which planners , developers and politicians were telling them about . |
| 18 | ‘ By the way Bill , ’ Yanto turned enquiringly , ‘ has Bert Midgeley still got that motorbike combination you were telling me about ? ’ |
| 19 | Louise , you were telling me about Roger Clarke . |
| 20 | " What was it you were telling me about Cowslip ? |
| 21 | You were telling me about your husband . ’ |
| 22 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 23 | Is it you were telling me about you you you caught kids sniffing methane was it ? |
| 24 | Erm you were telling me about religion about the fact that you went to church . |
| 25 | You were telling me about your uncle . |
| 26 | ‘ You were telling me about a party . ’ |
| 27 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 28 | Anyway , you were telling me about meals . |
| 29 | And then er I were telling you about the er where the marshes was n't I . |
| 30 | Er I were telling you about the pianos , in one particular terrace you could just imagine it in , what , nineteen er twenty si no , twenty seven twenty eight , and you know things were bad , you talk about the thirties , the twenties were worse than that . |