Example sentences of "were [v-ing] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a very short time , the two of them , together with Mrs Diggory , were fussing about the dog in the library , with bowls of warm water , blankets , an old sheet torn in strips , and even some milk laced with laudanum unearthed from the late Lady Merchiston 's store of medicines in the attics . |
| 2 | What a load of old cobblers … dare n't tell you what Hereford supporters were singing about the ref tho … to the first division now … a draw for Oxford … defeat for Swindon |
| 3 | Long before the Gulf crisis , American , British and French ministries of defence were warning about the new threat from the South — the increase in missiles and chemical weapons , the danger of fanatics , fundamentalists , drug traffickers and so forth . |
| 4 | Those who did go before 1560 were writing about a country which the English wanted to conquer . |
| 5 | ‘ They were writing about the country , but they were n't from it . |
| 6 | Men still do this — they talk of men 's struggles , movements and characteristics as if they were writing about the whole class . |
| 7 | And yet they were writing about the same place , and both of them knew it intimately , and had known it for years . |
| 8 | German S.P. guns and other motorised equipment were lying about the approach road in grotesque twisted shapes , victims of direct hits from the British guns . |
| 9 | He could solve every practical problem , and made Jane some superlative furniture , just out of odd pieces of wood which were lying about the estate . |
| 10 | You were enquiring about the availability and price of the Simulations EFL software . |
| 11 | By the time Adam and Billie were drinking their coffees , the contact had interrupted Kragan at a training meeting and told him of the two foreigners in the Bellevue Hotel who were enquiring about the Dresden Heide . |
| 12 | But final-stage rockets had misfired before , and at a time when people were whispering about a change of prime Minister and the shake-out that would bring , the very last thing Sladen must want was to be caught up in a brawl between Number 10 , the Foreign Office , Defence and the secret services . |
| 13 | She looked at Tommaso Talvi in her mind 's eye , she adjusted her image of him to fit with her sister 's , she inventoried his features , beginning with the eyes , and redrafted them in order to see them as ‘ pretty ’ , she scanned his caffelatte pallor and his big hands , grasping the bread she had cut for him , she looked at his mouth , the purplish fullness of his lips and the strong teeth that showed when he grinned , as he had done , often , but without laughter , when the men were disagreeing about the possibilities of change , the chances of the election on returning the Socialists , of bringing about improvements for the labourers now that the franchise had at last been widened to include some people who were n't bosses , like her father , a music teacher with a sense of honour , of justice . |
| 14 | Kimberley and Killion were prancing about the sky , failing to distract the defences , and Lambert strayed into a hail of machine-gun fire , splashed with flak . |
| 15 | So in the beginning do you think you were speaking about a whole afternoon and an evening to make the coffin or all day ? |
| 16 | Thing about boats you know you were speaking about the steamer coming back and forth to Wyre , but what kind of a boat service was there local boat service . |
| 17 | And er you were speaking about the gut factory . |
| 18 | ‘ When you were complaining about the Police , ’ she said . |
| 19 | Last week listeners were complaining about the supposed increase in American accents on Radio 4 ( ‘ I am sick to the back teeth of hearing these American voices ’ ) . |
| 20 | While all the other pros were complaining about the course length , Daly was revelling in it . |
| 21 | Back in '88 people were complaining about the Vixen and Psycho Pigs UXB adverts . |
| 22 | Even the farmers and growers were complaining about the awful conditions . |
| 23 | Riven 's legs were complaining about the unaccustomed riding and the wind made his eyes water . |
| 24 | The R5 commentators were complaining about the first half saying how rubbish it was — Mike Ingham , the worst scum lover . |
| 25 | I could do park parade tha , a girl was , er er anywa , I went in the factory and one of the girls says they were saying about a dance , says ooh I quite a few you ought to see him dance the park parade ! |
| 26 | So in t erm with your regard to you were saying about the fact that there 's a lot of unemployment in the flats , |
| 27 | Maelmuire has nothing to fear from you now , nor have I. What was that you were saying about the next generation — and where and what they would rule ? |
| 28 | Erm to come back to what we were saying about the paintings |
| 29 | Tell me you were saying about the tell me what happened at the muckle suppers . |
| 30 | that sideboard off her and we were saying about the manure you know , I said , she said ooh come and |