Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] was talking about " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother was talking about my niece who had chicken-pox when Thomas , four , suddenly asked : ‘ Nanna , does that mean Samantha can lay eggs ? ’ |
| 2 | For a moment Erika was at a loss as to whom her mother was talking about , then it dawned on her . |
| 3 | In high spirits , his father was talking about the immense advances made in forensic science in recent years . |
| 4 | Albert asked him once if he did n't find it agonizingly painful on the calves , especially in the case of an attempt to stop , but the child obviously did n't know what his father was talking about . |
| 5 | I knew what Mum was talking about . |
| 6 | After a while , however , Pound 's constant and insistent proselytizing began to annoy him , and he reverts to his usual more careful and elaborate prose while explaining ( as so many of Pound 's correspondents did ) that he did not at all understand what Pound was talking about . |