Example sentences of "[be] talking [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're going to be confused yes , very confused , I mean on the football pitch you usually get the trainer run man and they 're talking to the footballer and it 's looking at them all the time and he will ask questions , erm what 's your name ? |
| 2 | Well , you do n't need all that , if you 're talking to the public , you 're telling what are basically the facts , and , if asked for your opinion on them , you then decide whether to give your opinion or to say , ‘ Well , no , that 's beyond , that 's beyond my brief . ’ |
| 3 | I often say jokingly that you make a comment to somebody and you find you 're talking to the world export on expert on whatever it is . |
| 4 | When we 're talking to the people on the phone we home in on a thousand pound . |
| 5 | Even though we say things , it[s just mouthing off like when you 're talking to the lads , showing off , I s'pose . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're talking to the Ship again ? ’ |
| 7 | Alright , so , if you 're talking on the phone , of course you 'd transfer it to the secretary phone , would n't you ? |
| 8 | ‘ You 're talking of the Brotherhood ? ’ |
| 9 | Well , just , but no-one writes 'em like Sebadoh , unless you 're talking of the surfeit of spirit that infused Alex Chilton 's wildest torch-songs , the challenging of expectations Sonic Youth practise or the studied waywardness of The Fall . |
| 10 | In assistants particularly with part time you 're talking of the order of fifty to fifty five percent . |
| 11 | Even when we 're talking about the person who has right of way on a roundabout . |
| 12 | Well let's just give you some idea , we 're not talking er telephone figures here we 're talking about the platform that we give people to earn that sort of money . |
| 13 | When we talk about online we 're talking about the ability for the software infrastructure to support decision support and transaction processing . |
| 14 | So descendants of John and Jane , er John Wilson died in nineteen hundred and three , at age seventy six , so we 're talking about the turn of the century . |
| 15 | You , you , we 're , I presume we 're talking about the sounds that can be heard by our ears , by |
| 16 | Now you 're talking about the AOL . |
| 17 | We 're talking about the year 2000 , intelligent robots , the nearest thing to the human mind and human handling ability yet devised . |
| 18 | And while we 're talking about the man 's divine right to know , little babies are born knowing all they need to know about love : they 're unselfconscious , they can communicate , and their first experience — sucking — is a sensual one ! |
| 19 | We 're talking about the noises . |
| 20 | You 're talking about individuals that have come in here , or you 're talking about the tenants ' association , the representation |
| 21 | But it is taken into account if we 're talking about the cost of life cover . |
| 22 | Paralysis , when a limb is paralysed there is complete loss of movement and feeling , if you 're talking about paralysis , loss of limbs , we 're talking about the severance , would you believe , of any two limbs . |
| 23 | The good stuff is here , where you 're talking about sixty six percent of you trailer as being Express , you 're talking about the consignments on a trailer , the items on a trailer , and then that , the revenue per trailer , why do you want to move it next day ? |
| 24 | Just just by way of informa information , the regional routes rail network , you 're talking about the Harrogate line , the one to Scarborough and ? |
| 25 | Wi with with with all due respect you know we we we 're talking about the precision of the word and when you actually come to a ten point scale there will be some imprecision anyway in the is it a six ? |
| 26 | You 're talking about the case . ’ |
| 27 | Could I just take you back , David , on the point where you 're talking about the things that the teacher might recognise . |
| 28 | When we 're talking about the negligence factor , obviously the insurance does n't cover the negligence of of a repairer , erm any faults inherent at the time of purchase are obviously not our responsibility and I do n't think any reasonable person would expect us to cover that because obviously we 're we 're in insurance , we 're not taking on risks already , we 're taking on a risk of mechanical failure of items after they 're sold , not obviously before they 're sold . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , but you 're talking about the ghost of a dead person , are n't you ? |
| 30 | 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 |