Example sentences of "we talk [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The others are tormented by a sense of their own unreality — " What are we to talk about ? " is one refrain and , when they do talk , they misunderstand and confuse each other . |
| 2 | Now which which figure are we to talk about ? |
| 3 | and er she said she was she said had we talked to Dick and Joan or not ? |
| 4 | Have we talked about naming intervals before ? |
| 5 | We talk about sweet and sour but they may have five different sweets and five different sours . ’ |
| 6 | We talk about Jeremy . |
| 7 | But when we talk about our conscious experiences we are providing our listener with only a very crude approximation to the actual phenomenal content of experience . |
| 8 | We accept what they say , but if we talk about our homes — my mum said this or I cooked this — they hardly understand what we are saying . |
| 9 | We talk about the ups and downs of being thirty , about Denice 's ambition to become a successful actress , about books and birth signs . |
| 10 | Let me tell you of the images that spring to my mind when we talk about water . |
| 11 | We talk about the recent Kiss FM opening celebration in London 's Highbury Fields where Beats International were canned offstage . |
| 12 | We do n't talk about the character or personality of horses very much , instead we talk about their temperament . |
| 13 | When we talk about intelligence in horses , we are usually referring to how quickly they learn something . |
| 14 | The kind of language game in which we talk about ‘ the back of ’ something is one in which that expression has meaning because it has evolved out of all kinds of activity in which ‘ backs ’ exist and can be shown to exist , because verified either by our own movement through space-time or by that of other persons , or both . |
| 15 | ‘ We talk about the domestic life of yesteryear , religion and child labour in addition to education . ’ |
| 16 | When we talk about part-time holdings in any context — certainly in an island context — we are not speaking about small static parcels of land with which we can play about like pieces in a jig-saw puzzle . |
| 17 | this freedom we talk about is worthy of their support because it is for them we fight ; it is for the establishment of a social system that is going to provide them with the opportunity and the means to develop all that is best in them and the Nation . |
| 18 | What do we mean when we talk about ‘ seeing ’ ? |
| 19 | We talk about the standards that we keep and the attitudes that are important , as well as their shift patterns , times of duty and so on . |
| 20 | Anything that comes to the top we talk about . |
| 21 | We talk about ‘ god ’ sometimes here at home , and you have been told at school to sing hymns and say prayers to ‘ god ’ , and you hear ‘ god ’ spoken about on the radio and television , also your friends talk and argue about ‘ god ’ , but nobody at all will tell you who or what ‘ god ’ really is , and this is because ‘ god ’ is only imaginary just as fairies are . |
| 22 | We talk about the world according to our human mind configuration . |
| 23 | In adult life we talk about people withholding what they have in order to keep control ; we talk about ‘ shitty ’ behaviour to describe what happens when someone ‘ messes things up ’ . |
| 24 | In adult life we talk about people withholding what they have in order to keep control ; we talk about ‘ shitty ’ behaviour to describe what happens when someone ‘ messes things up ’ . |
| 25 | But once 'e 's come round we talk about the good old days , an' how they 're a complete blank . |
| 26 | We talk about business , and he enquires after my health , and remembers my birthday and so on … |
| 27 | You should also note that when we talk about scale uses , this does not mean merely running up and down the scales like a machine ; scales are there to show you which notes to use , the idea being that you are supposed to make melodic phrases or lines from them . |
| 28 | But when we talk about the gay audience , do we mean the 50-year-old white male Tory voter living in Chelmsford , or the 21-year-old Asian dyke living in Hackney ? |
| 29 | ‘ We do n't want to go for the sort of so called innovation that can alienate an audience , ’ he exclaims when we talk about the sometimes clichéd dynamics of their music . |
| 30 | ‘ Mmm … we talk about the team . ’ |