Example sentences of "am talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am talking about phrases which speak to the country by capturing its mood or its hopes . |
| 2 | ‘ I am talking of people of our calibre ; two or three men , a couple of hundred staff , good solid firms that normally do n't go bankrupt … |
| 3 | But here I am talking blissfully about myself in the old fashion ! |
| 4 | ‘ And he went to the degree of saying , when I pressed him , how are we going to stay in this business ; he said , Albert , for all I know right now when I am talking to you , we could be finished with the business ; I do n't know . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But what I am talking about , because it is my business , is mainstream commercial cinema and I do maintain that mainstream cinema should be looking towards its audience . |
| 6 | What I am talking of is , I suppose , the sort of progeny one might expect from a mating between the Arkleton Trust and the government-sponsored Plockton seminar |
| 7 | I am talking about middle-class , well-to-do men : traders , businessmen … bankers like him ! ’ |
| 8 | But I am talking about a woman 's rights . |
| 9 | ‘ Clearly as I am talking about broadening an audience , I need to talk about broadening the appeal of exhibitions . ’ |
| 10 | That is to say , I am talking of the likes of Mr Marshall of Charleville House , or Mr Lane of Bridewood . |
| 11 | I know what I am talking about . |
| 12 | I am not talking about hunting being given the name of culling , I am talking about situations where culling does really look to be the only way to save the vegetation . |
| 13 | Barbel fishing in the early days , and I am talking to more than a hundred years ago , was very popular amongst the gentry , who used to employ a man to bait a swim with thousands of lobworms over a period of days , sometimes weeks . |
| 14 | Now it might be objected that I am talking here about language knowledge and not communicative behaviour , about how grammar might be learned and not about the development of a language using ability . |
| 15 | I am talking here about organized religion , and structured religious forms seem to be based on predominantly ‘ light ’ or ‘ dark ’ principles . |
| 16 | ‘ You know what I am talking about , of course ? ’ |
| 17 | The words probably , likely and unlikely litter the text , even when I am talking about what is widely regarded as fact . |
| 18 | ‘ I am talking to you . ’ |
| 19 | What I am talking about are the contexts in which people have sexual relationships . |
| 20 | ‘ I am talking very quietly so as not to wake mummy , ’ she would say in a very loud voice . |
| 21 | ‘ I know what I am talking about . |
| 22 | What balls I am talking , ’ he laughed . |
| 23 | CLINT , POPPIE , I AM TALKING TO YOU ! |
| 24 | ‘ I think I am talking for us all when I say that we will gladly work for nothing , just until matters improve , we have all been so happy here at Summer Lodge and each and every one of us would like to stay with you wherever you go . ’ |
| 25 | If I meet my young son from school , laughing with his friends and waving to me and the dog , who wags its tail and barks in return , should I be supposed not to know what I am talking about if I pronounce them both to be conscious ? |
| 26 | Some , at least , of this confusion and inconsistency arise out of misunderstanding as to what is meant by Wages for Housework , so before proceeding any further I propose to change the term in order to indicate ( a ) that I am not spokeswoman for , nor even in complete agreement with , the campaign of that name ; ( b ) that I do not propose to be sidetracked into an interesting discussion of the precise scientific definition of ‘ wage ’ ; what I am talking about is cash , money , pound notes , that to which a housewife is not entitled , that to which she should be ; and ( c ) that there is housework and housework . |
| 27 | Although in this article I am talking specifically about green manures for winter the same principle applies during the remainder of the year . |
| 28 | The charitable organisation , the trust I am talking about happens to have four Eastern Board managers running the show . |
| 29 | An when I am talking to meself in poetry I talk , |
| 30 | Here I am talking to you about myself — a thing I assure you I very very rarely do — while you are shrinking from making the slightest personal communication to me . |