Example sentences of "[pron] think [pron] [be] talk " in BNC.
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| 1 | C. I thought we were talking about the H-bomb . |
| 2 | I thought we were talking about one man , Philippe Maurin ? ’ |
| 3 | I thought we were talking about Si , I 'm really really confused . |
| 4 | I thought she was talking about you , I mean she never mentioned no names when she came rushing up to the top just the same , do n't know what 's the matter with Wynne today , the edge there Lynda . |
| 5 | She said , Oh she said I thought it was talking about me . |
| 6 | I thought you were talking about a bird , though how you 'd spot one of those little things … |
| 7 | I thought you were talking about |
| 8 | Ju I thought you were talking about the tombola when you were saying fifty pence a strip , sorry . |
| 9 | Oh I see I thought you were talking about toxophily for a minute . |
| 10 | Sorry I thought you were talking about two |
| 11 | Sorry I thought you were talking about the weights on the |
| 12 | That 's wha , that 's who I thought you were talking , I thought you were talking about them . |
| 13 | That 's wha , that 's who I thought you were talking , I thought you were talking about them . |
| 14 | Oh I thought you were talking about Mother Theresa . |
| 15 | But er , pre , I thought you were talking about George the first something like that then you 've got er hand sawn timber , you know you can see the marks on the board |
| 16 | I thought you were talking about this morning . |
| 17 | oh I 'm sorry I thought you was talking about ninety four , ninety five |
| 18 | Well I thought you was talking about mattresses airing in front of the fire . |
| 19 | I thought I was talking somebody in |
| 20 | I think we 're talking about anorexia here , are n't we ? |
| 21 | ‘ Up ’ ( and I think we 're talking more than the one level of ambiguity in that solitary two-letter word ) is a record that actually makes you feel happy , in that all of it is uplifting ( oi ! spiritually , not trouserly ) , you can dance to some of it and sing along to the rest , the words are rude and witty and always smart , and Richard Fairbrass is a fantastic pop singer , all post-Bowie and Ferry and languid , a sort of brightly-coloured Neil Tennant . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | Looking back to speaker C's third question , we can propose two versions of ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | I think we 're talking at cross purposes . |
| 30 | I think we 're talking about once the suspension was over |