Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women were empowered to speak about sex , challenging the authority of the experts and drawing attention to their gendered power relations . |
| 2 | Some people were beginning to talk about retaliation or revenge against the authorities responsible . |
| 3 | Expecting there would be lots of talk about economics , I was wanting to talk about morality , which are nearer to the gospel . |
| 4 | First , at the time Jones had no idea what a storm was going to erupt about test-tube fusion and in notifying the DOE of his possible conflict of interest he was already being exceedingly conscientious and could , for example , have chosen instead to have remained an anonymous reviewer as far as the chemists were concerned . |
| 5 | That is , he thought he was still the amiable , easy-going champion he had been , when in reality he was a harried man who was beginning to learn about defeat and humiliation . |
| 6 | When I heard from Liz that your boss was starting to talk about wedding bells I swiftly moved all my operations back to London . ’ |
| 7 | Skinner was trying to talk about psychology as a science because a lot of psychology at the time was n't and if you ask pe I 'm sorry that my sort of talking 's coinciding with people 's conversations but er er will you try and finish it . |