Example sentences of "[pron] [be] talking [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 … |
| 2 | Well I would expect that the Prime Minister would , I think this nonsense that is behind all this is that because I am talking to Gerry Adams , they do n't want to be seen to be talking to me because it looks this fingerprint argument |
| 3 | I am talking to Kathleen , not you ! |
| 4 | I am talking about phrases which speak to the country by capturing its mood or its hopes . |
| 5 | I am talking about prisoners who do not want problems in serving their sentence ; they want to serve it in a civilised fashion , where that is possible in any prison regime . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I am talking about science . ’ |
| 8 | I am talking about grammar schools actually because erm the work that I was concerned with was in the secondary education which erm translated really means meant grammar school education , so that the schools that erm I had most contact with were the grammar schools . |
| 9 | I am talking about Northern Ireland . |
| 10 | Well I 'm talking of space . |
| 11 | I 'm talking of Kent , Sussex |
| 12 | well er , I 'm , excuse me David I 'm talking to Chris . |
| 13 | Yes , and one of the great ironies is that when I 'm talking to students about the nature of history , one of the first things I try and say to them is ‘ Look , do n't have this idea that there 's a great bundle of documents lying in an attic , and this is the way that history works , that people make a sensational discovery and then they write a book about it . |
| 14 | No , I 'm talking to Kerry ! |
| 15 | No need to neglect the chickens just because I 'm talking to Jin . ’ |
| 16 | I 'm talking to Christopher . |
| 17 | The only time I do that is when I 'm talking to journalists and they ask me questions about the past . |
| 18 | I 'm talking to Kathleen . |
| 19 | Look I 'm talking to daddy , I 've not seen him ye for a while . |
| 20 | He has that abstracted expression they all get , do n't bother me now , I 'm talking to God and God only talks back in rock . |
| 21 | I 'm talking about players who play our Tour . |
| 22 | No , I 'm , I 'm talking about building inspectors , because if it was supposed to have been retained , and they demolished it , and used it , you know , in another way , and not , not built it back . |
| 23 | No , no , I 'm talking about profit from the , from the business . |
| 24 | I 'm talking about trust , and integrity , and … and honour , ’ she whispered furiously . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm talking about sex . |
| 26 | And the other thing erm which er er is good , supposing you 're watching er a programme and there 's a football match on and you 're interested in the , the football er but you do n't really want to keep , you know , switching to find out what the score is , er I 'm talking about teletext as opposed to a programme , you press the update and it w er and if something 's happened , you know , they 've changed and there 's been a score , it 'll come up er er while you 're watching the programme , er it 'll let you know that erm there 's been something happening . |
| 27 | No no no I 'm talking about I 'm talking about bits and pieces for the place , we did |
| 28 | Yeah , I 'd , I 'll have to blank it out the part when I 'm talking about passwords and things as well . |
| 29 | But what we do , because we are the people we are , , and er , it happens every time , we 've got salesmen , and I 'm talking about salesmen , who will get over to see somebody and get something signed up , they called you or whatever it was , |
| 30 | They did n't have any control , certainly , and not even very much knowledge as to how the commodity — and I 'm talking about cotton , rubber , tea , copper , bauxite , coco , sugar , coffee and so on — what happened to it when it enters the market of a developed country . |