Example sentences of "[conj] i [be] talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , current speaker will next speaker by name , so when I speak to you and I call your name , you know that I am talking to you . |
| 2 | Mr. Wilson : I am grateful for your guidance , Mr. Deputy Speaker , but I assure you that I am talking about the disabled only in terms of the general need for consumer protection , which is encompassed in new clause S. |
| 3 | The differences in contents in different individuals come about in the following manner , and here I must stress that I am talking about sexually reproducing species such as our own . |
| 4 | You and your family are the friends that I am talking about . ’ |
| 5 | As some of his remarks in the Criterion commentaries made clear , he was not hostile to the idea of Empire , ‘ whatever the Daily Express may say ’ ; and if this should rouse the indignation of anti-imperialists , it should be realized that I am talking about a bygone era , since which the world-scene has been transformed , and the term colonialism is now employed usually in the service of invective . |
| 6 | The Government 's commitment to the environment can have no credibility — I stress that I am talking about the Government , not the Minister — if the Prime Minister and the Chancellor do not think that the environment is important , even if lesser Ministers do . |
| 7 | He went through the selection and training process that I am talking about . |
| 8 | and and sometimes I think to myself , would I love this person that i 'm talking to , to become a believer of Christ ? |
| 9 | The sort of weakness that I 'm talking about is not physical weakness but a weakness of their personality . |
| 10 | The description ‘ Big , Black but Slim ’ could be misconstrued but as dedicated readers of a computer magazine I 'm sure you 'll realise that I 'm talking about the keyboard ! |
| 11 | The truth of the matter is of course it probably would n't be all greenfield land , but that 's the worst case that I 'm talking about . |
| 12 | Er prior to the war we we did very the three pound nineteen and six and the four pound one that I 'm talking about that was all done with local negotiations . |
| 13 | right , you 'll gather a bit of string , I 'm not saying you 'll use the words I 'm using , but the theme , do you see the theme that I 'm talking about , about moving people and |
| 14 | Well , the studies that I 've been involved in , the computer has performed certainly as well as a consultant , and at times much better than a junior doctor in the particular situation that I 'm talking about . |
| 15 | So it 's that sort of , if you like , unconscious and undeliberate bias that I 'm talking about ; those career breaks , the lack of day care for the majority of working women in this country . |
| 16 | And certainly if you look at the case for very many women not in the job tops we 're talking about low paid work erm low rates of unionisation , very , very low rates of day care erm it 's those sorts of things that I 'm talking about , and for me those are very , very much more important than the fact that we 've only got one woman Chief Officer at the top in the County Council . |
| 17 | Well , it must be remembered that the Business Studies that I 'm talking about is A E B , which is Associated Examining Board . |
| 18 | As I was giving this description it came to me that I was talking about someone else . |
| 19 | The Swedes at one time , they designed er a stabilizer which was er a type hydraulic rather than a mechanical hydraulic er er stabilizer , and subsequently all the materials that I was talking about , the levers and you know , all the rest of it , were not required , and it shrunk the size of the thing er so low you know , that er the British manufacturers had to look , because the Swedes were then in the market er in a competitive way to take on Brothers or anybody else who were prepared to er produce them under licence . |
| 20 | The Environment Committee that I was talking about this proposal at this meeting . |
| 21 | Just to site some of the bits of work that I was talking about , erm , the Trustee Training Working Party , for example , er , in , ha has got on it , a representative from the black voluntary sector . |
| 22 | I mean , th the other aspect of the , of the fif the other aspect of the , the brewery and me that I was talking about , er I 'm thinking about is that we we could do with you know , okay those , th those figures are I mean , unless they 're really realistic it 's gon na be you know , six months or so |
| 23 | And the very player that I was talking about then , turns up now down the left hand side , he holds on so well , the cross again , and er again almost gets the cross in and our er colleague from the Italian service is er getting very excited a just away to my left , but er the header is wide , he can calm down a little , have an aspirin , and it 's still two one for Notts , but er Pisa they 're a danger , and to me they look far more dangerous than the Italian opponents in the last game here at Lane in this same competition . |
| 24 | Well him and that guy that I was talking about the one with the job . |
| 25 | erm the women that I talk to in groups up and down this county , I think some are angrier than they were , some are feel more empowered erm if they have if they 've had these sorts of experiences that I was talking about earlier . |
| 26 | Naturally this depends on the type of area and I am talking about hilly rural areas like this one . |
| 27 | ‘ This team has the talent to win trophies and I am talking about the championship as well as one-day competitions ’ . |
| 28 | Barbel fishing in the early days , and I am talking to more than a hundred years ago , was very popular amongst the gentry , who used to employ a man to bait a swim with thousands of lobworms over a period of days , sometimes weeks . |
| 29 | I there is a small difference of course , the C E C did say it , but there is dif different negotiating procedures as you 're , you are aware but Mike and I are talking about that and I 'm sure we can overcome it . |
| 30 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |