Example sentences of "[verb] we be talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suggest we are talking about a murderer rather than murderers . |
| 2 | Ya Yasunsgat we 're talking about , it 's a |
| 3 | but there is that level and kind of education provided in the other Colleges of Further Education , and likewise it would not affect them either , so I do n't think we 're talking about necessarily a major part of the sixth form provision in the county . |
| 4 | It 's not twenty one years I do n't think we 're talking about . |
| 5 | I do n't think we are talking about kept in reasonable health dear I think it is a question of living in an environment which does not genuinely support over any sensible period of time normal human life . |
| 6 | more information I mean this is , I mean this is part of what I was talk mythology I mean we 're talking about the index survey so when I raised the example of Churchill and the Churchill ex example is , was a good one because I mean he was an intellectual in his way , you know I mean he was a big bright cookie and but his was in terms of word count because he had a use of words for the way he used his words was how ordinary people would understand him I mean if you go back to you know we will fight them on the beaches and everything else I mean you think of the number of syllables he used in those words etcetera , etcetera I mean that 's sort of what I 'm getting to I mean he had his sharp succinct approach you know |
| 7 | No , but if you had the staff , I mean we 're talking about a hypothetical situation , would you still try doing that ? |
| 8 | I mean we 're talking about |
| 9 | You know but I mean when it comes to a screw and your , I mean we 're talking about coming like this to undo the screw . |
| 10 | I mean we 're talking as if these young women who feel uncomfortable erm are feeling uncomfortable because of something that 's objectively in the |
| 11 | So that 's what flat machines do , they knit , these particular Jacquard and , and that 's what the continentals were good at , it , cos they look , I mean they were far more , we 're so conservative in this country , little better now obviously we do more nowad you know we 're talking about just after the war the Italians and the French were into colour , not garish colour , subtle lovely colours . |
| 12 | Right , now I 'm trying to say to you is , that if , if you write , you write all these things down , you 'll find that one thing wo n't react with another , you know we were talking about interacting |
| 13 | You know we was talking about ? |
| 14 | Remember we 're talking about people who are eighty or ninety moving a bit . |
| 15 | I suppose we 're talking about people who people other people the people who are paying the Poll Tax just do n't really care that much about . |
| 16 | So yeah we 're talking we 're talking in terms of starting we 're talking about next week or the week after . |
| 17 | What I do n't quite understand is what was the legal basis on which they went ahead with this despite the objection , presumably as some of the trustees as to what was being done , I could hear we 're talking of er a deficit of one point seven billion appearing or it a surplus disappearing into a deficit , which is actually four times as much has disappeared out of Maxwell . |
| 18 | Do n't forget we 're talking about changing people , somebody 's job description to include a Can you ? |
| 19 | C. I thought we were talking about the H-bomb . |
| 20 | I thought we were talking about one man , Philippe Maurin ? ’ |
| 21 | I thought we were talking about Si , I 'm really really confused . |
| 22 | I think we 're talking about anorexia here , are n't we ? |
| 23 | It may be that this explanation is not an acceptable answer to the question , but it is presented by the speaker in a form which conveys ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ in this part of the conversation . |
| 24 | Characterising the individual speaker 's topic as ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ incorporates both that element which the conversational analyst tends to abstract as the ‘ topic of conversation ’ for the participants ( 'What we 're talking about' ) and the individual speaker 's version ( 'I think' ) , as he/she makes a conversational contribution . |
| 25 | From what we have proposed as speakers ' topics in conversational discourse , it must occasionally happen that there are at least two versions of ‘ What I think we 're talking about ’ which are potentially incompatible . |
| 26 | We might characterise speaker B's view of ‘ what I think we 're talking about now ’ as something involving herself , the 1930s , and the existence of telephones ( as well as radios ) at that time . |
| 27 | Speaker B's view of ‘ what I think we 're talking about now ’ must now involve speaker A , A's father , the Scouts and a man ( who may have something to do with telephones ) . |
| 28 | Looking back to speaker C's third question , we can propose two versions of ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ . |
| 29 | We might think that by the end of this fragment there is once again a single version for both speakers of ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ . |
| 30 | I think we 're talking about once the suspension was over |