Example sentences of "talking about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he lived , we could have been talking about Field Marshal Bradford in World War Two . ’ |
| 2 | If you should stroll into a pub and meet an analyst and a user talking about work , and you can not tell one from the other , they have probably developed a successful system together . |
| 3 | ‘ Talking about work , ’ said Terry , ‘ when are you going to start doin' summat ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Talking about work , as we were just a moment ago … perhaps you would n't mind explaining to me why you want to reject some of the new designs I 've just shown you ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Who 's talking about work ? |
| 6 | Her own feelings swung so violently between attraction and a very real fear and hate of what he 'd forced her to do that she was still as prickly as a porcupine in his presence , unless they were talking about work . |
| 7 | ‘ We have instituted a range of education-based schemes in schools like talking about vandalism as a crime , developing crime prevention panels and other measures . ’ |
| 8 | companies are always one behind but er if we 're talking about houses , not many burglars would try a , a house with an alarm . |
| 9 | We are talking about houses . |
| 10 | We were talking about Ireland before you arrived . |
| 11 | So , he was talking about Ireland , really raving about it and his name 's Kennedy and he 's from Liverpool and he likes to think he 's got Irish blood in him , he 's been there twice this year and |
| 12 | ‘ I was talking about tablecloths . ’ |
| 13 | When we were in the meadow opposite the Grotto and Father was talking about Bernadette I felt as though I could see her . |
| 14 | ‘ I was talking about Barbs . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We were just talking about Barbs , ’ said Clarissa . |
| 16 | There 's a man , Steve , stands up in Hyde Park every Sunday er talking about communism and socialism . |
| 17 | Cotton wool is a material which can be used at such times ; respondents thought of this context when talking about cotton wool . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | No , what , he was talking about taxation . |
| 20 | You should hear her talking about Gesner . |
| 21 | And talking about timing , we have to create a situation so I can fire Peggy Vanderheld . ’ |
| 22 | What but what what we 're talking about timing here because we wo n't we wo n't er we wo n't for ever and ever you see . |
| 23 | Well we were talking about timing for people , you 're the same time in your car as you are in |
| 24 | You were talking about life 's punishments just now , and maybe the fact that love is doomed from the off is one of them . |
| 25 | They started drinking that evening and the man who 'd been fired started talking about life in Vietnam and posing as a veteran , and he said to the other one , ‘ The only place to go after hours is Tan Son Hut airport because they have marvellous chinese soup there ’ and they wanted to sober up . |
| 26 | Ell was talking about life on Nicaea : the vidscreen soaps , her simple typing job and her small apartment . |
| 27 | Talking about talking about life here is someone we all know , here 's someone we all know from That 's Life . |
| 28 | Neither of them had taken the slightest notice of my movements , except that Mr Parsons was already in my empty chair , and the two of them , with Ewen Mackay 's flask of whisky now standing between them , were talking about salmon fishing . |
| 29 | But wait a moment , are n't the people at Taligent talking about OS/2 and AIX personalities ( that they call ‘ adaptors ’ ) to sit on Taligent ? — on the one hand there is a microkernel with Taligent on top and an OS/2 adaptor . |
| 30 | But wait a moment , are n't the people at Taligent talking about OS/2 and AIX personalities ( that they call ‘ adaptors ’ ) to sit on Taligent ? — on the one hand there is a microkernel with Taligent on top and an OS/2 adaptor . |