Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to work for a record company as an office junior ages ago and they were always talking about music as being a packet of cornflakes : you just have to make it look right and make it so it 's easy to recognise and people will buy it . |
| 2 | We were later told about Piggy 's asthma which stopped him from doing many physical things like swimming and running . |
| 3 | And of course none of us were particularly exercised about death as a real possibility . |
| 4 | The 44ft ( 13.4m ) yacht belongs to the charter company International Ocean Ventures and her nine crew were there to learn about ocean cruising — the hard way . |
| 5 | We broke windows accidentally , we were throwing erm in fact I was only talking about whip and top the other day , and erm er which was a a game we used to play . |
| 6 | Um I was just thinking about y'know |
| 7 | No she was just asking about christmas presents . |
| 8 | Yes , this , this actually , thank you Chairman , this actually is very much an example of , of what I was just saying about consultation . |
| 9 | Soldiers wiped out a village in south Sumatra 's Lampung province in 1989 because a zealot was thought to be preaching fundamentalism ( it has emerged he was just griping about land ownership ) . |
| 10 | Kevin was always talking about syntax because he was reading philosophy and this is the kind of thing philosophers talk about . |
| 11 | Concern was also expressed about smoke from the barbecue interfering with other sporting fixtures , and it was agreed that plans for the proposed verandah should be viewed by the parish council before going to the district . |
| 12 | Great concern was often expressed about lack of military interest in political affairs . |
| 13 | Miss Logan , embarrassed by Our Lord 's words to Nicodemus , was instead thinking about bitumen : was that not the material used by artists to blacken the shadows in their paintings ? |
| 14 | He was certainly thinking about fusion as a source of heat in the Earth . |
| 15 | ‘ I was actually thinking about suicide , ’ he confessed to Barbara . |