Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] were talk [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | which was made up of local towns people , you know , and and er I mean you did n't have to be a a notary in the town to be on this er Co board th th You know you could be one of the riveters you were talking about earlier . |
| 2 | Erm , only the other day in the Transportation Department we were talking about drivers hours and er , it 's obvious implication there on road safety where the government are trying to relax the provisions , for what 's the European committee are trying to tighten them up . |
| 3 | Who was the lady you were talking to who you knew ? |
| 4 | I wan na say on that question we were talking about earlier on about the young people and some facilities for them . |
| 5 | For instance , in one of the lectures we were talking about how you know how heavy an atom is , and my colleague , Mike Pendlebury , was describing how you can actually do this by weighing a crystal and counting the number of atoms in it , erm this is certainly not the traditional way , it 's a way that 's been developed over the last few years . |
| 6 | I thought you know , I did think when they were talking , when the council they were talking about spending a lot of money behind the station |
| 7 | ‘ What was that mysterious place you were talking about at Aunt Nance 's ? ’ |
| 8 | What 's more , Charity , I 've seen this actor you were talking about . |
| 9 | ‘ Now if it was Irish whiskey you were talking about … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ This Richmond we were talking about . |
| 11 | Well we , at the erm school play we were talking to , who did you say , Mr ? |
| 12 | Well if I know who they are and I do n't know where they come from I 'll just put who they are day I were talking to them and dash it . |
| 13 | Well he was nice , that day you were talking about me . |
| 14 | till yeah , crazy , well look at the erm , the price of sugar the other day you were talking about that , what was it , fifty odd P ? |
| 15 | yeah , erm yeah it was different erm with it only being role play it was a bit erm difficult to keep up with it sometimes and actually keep it going like , erm if it was the real life situation outside right you 'd know that the person you were talking to had more had been through that situation before |
| 16 | Then of course then you go back to government subsidies and whether or not they are , taxpayers are prepared to pay government subsidies , so the tickets do n't cost the price you were talking about |
| 17 | Hey do you care about you know the other day we were talking about the erm I wanted to get one of the councillors on to talk about this but I I ca n't find the right one . |
| 18 | But you know the other day we were talking about that tulip thing that 's down by erm Marks and Sparks ? |
| 19 | One of the things we were talking about last time was separating mixtures and solvents . |
| 20 | One of the things we were talking about earlier this morning was , from our point of view anyway , what a super January we had . |
| 21 | These are the things we were talking about yesterday these uprights . |
| 22 | Oh , absolutely , I mean when you say a trader we were talking about a repair shop here if we 're talking about servicing work and so on . |
| 23 | Every now and again people would step neatly aside while the person they were talking to was sick on the floor . |
| 24 | Any systematic variation must have been the result of the reaction of passers-by to the apparent social class of the person they were talking to , since all other variables were held constant . |
| 25 | I though it was the eleven D's you were talking about . |
| 26 | When you used that word in our session last week you were talking of the taste of semen . |
| 27 | You were saying this morning on the end of the news you were talking about the four man |
| 28 | On another occasion , a woman cousin met me there and we stood talking , ‘ Who was that woman you were talking to ? ’ |
| 29 | Last week we were talking about food and fuel in third world countries . |
| 30 | Later on that week we were talking in the library again and somehow the topic of owls came up in conversation once more . |