Example sentences of "what they [be] talk " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think these guys know what they 're talking about . |
| 2 | It is not necessary to go to the lengths of the British Airways new Four Corners shops , where the travel element can hardly be distinguished through an Ali Baba 's cave of irrelevant merchandise , but only to set up efficient systems run by people who know what they 're talking about and who can make time to understand what their travellers want , like Trailfinders with their honest bucket-shop approach , or the STA chain with its expertise in student travel . |
| 3 | These people at South American Explorers , they do n't know what they 're talking about . |
| 4 | This happy coincidence — happy , that is , for all those visionaries and seers who speak in sonorous phrases about the ‘ New Pacific Century ’ and the ‘ Grand Pacific Age ’ , and find such a discovery a perfect symbol of what they 're talking about — has been the case ever since 22 October 1884 , when a group of scientists and politicians met in a hotel in Washington DC and set down the rules by which the planet was henceforth to organize the keeping of its time . |
| 5 | They seem intent on confusing you as much as possible — largely because they do n't what they 're talking about themselves . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't really understand what they 're talking about , ’ she said , ‘ but now it 's the only thing on in the morning . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't consider myself an idiot and anyone who says I am does n't know what they 're talking about . |
| 8 | We have tried to list the connections existing across contributions in this discourse fragment to emphasise the ways speakers make what they 're talking about fit into a framework which represents what we ( as discourse participants ) are talking about in conversational discourse . |
| 9 | What we have described is the use of the combination of these formal markers by speakers to indicate a shift in what they 're talking about . |
| 10 | ‘ If you have a room which is meant to be a meeting place of all the chief Daleks , and what they 're talking about is power — power over other civilisations , power over other planets — then power and domination is what comes through in the dialogue , and is the feeling behind what you want to create . |
| 11 | They work with children all the time , so they really know what they 're talking about . ’ |
| 12 | A lot of the parents know what they 're talking about , they 've seen it all already , what we 're going through . |
| 13 | I 'd much rather have a plain name I know what they 're talking about then . |
| 14 | Add positive three , see this thing of using the same symbol for add and for positive is very confusing , very confusing , it 's as though , you know you 're speaking a different language where one word has about fifteen different meanings and you ca n't understand what they 're talking about most of the time . |
| 15 | And Vernons know what they 're talking about — last year they had more than 400,000 lucky winners who shared more than 40 million . |
| 16 | And I think governments would do well to talk to the people at the sharp end , like magistrates , who use this system , work the system , liaise with all the various components in the system and do know what they 're talking about . |
| 17 | So when people talk about Freud 's Lamarckism , they 're not talking about what Darwin and Freud understood as Lamarckism , evolution by will , with progressive improvement , what they 're talking about is what everybody believed to be true , the inheritance of acquired characteristics . |
| 18 | Erm people that have n't experienced it do n't know what they 're talking about . |
| 19 | And who knows what they 're talking about , those fifty two people who said yes . |
| 20 | ’ I think they do n't know what they 're talking about . ’ |
| 21 | At least from the point of with Labour at least they most of them send their kids through the state system so they 've got a little more idea of what they 're talking about . |
| 22 | what they 're talking about is going to Blackpool are n't they ? |
| 23 | No , thing I mean silly little thing , well I think it 's silly but there you are , they all see to know what they 're talking about but I mean cer certain things like in the fillet room |
| 24 | what they 're talking about . |
| 25 | Sorry , I did n't mean to pull back it 's just that I want to hear what they 're talking about . |
| 26 | First of all , the great mistake most people when they 're talking to press people is to assume that they know what they 're talking about . |
| 27 | Really Time Form are an excellent organisation , they know what they 're talking about , you know , you can trust what they say . |
| 28 | ‘ They are dedicated people who clearly know what they are talking about and have guided us through it . |
| 29 | For the concerned public to have any confidence that they can succeed , these bodies will need both governing councils and senior management who know what they are talking about , and show genuine commitment to conservation goals . |
| 30 | I do not understand what they are talking about , and I do not have the knowledge to take up their suggestions . |