Example sentences of "were talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They were talking as if they had lost a £10 note . |
| 2 | On board the steamer the two of them were talking about what would happen to the title if Lord Woodleigh was to die before they had any children , and Lord Woodleigh said — Sven Hjerson 's ears heard it — although now you get the estate . |
| 3 | Besides it was Colm they were talking about . |
| 4 | As a mother I warm to someone who observes that so many of the modern theories on childcare ‘ show utter contempt for women 's judgement ’ , and who points out that , when it comes to smacking , ‘ if we were talking about any other activity which was so widespread , people would say this was a method which was tried and tested and obviously worked . |
| 5 | It was good to be sitting down with a family for dinner even though I did n't understand everything the Frenchman and his wife were talking about . |
| 6 | Those who afterwards blamed Lambeth 1958 for platitudes did not know what they were talking about . |
| 7 | The other , more disturbing reading is that the Shakespearian phrases are made appropriate because the present situation reinterprets them in such a way that we are forced to wonder if a Burbank-Volupine situation was not just the sort of thing they were talking about all along . |
| 8 | So if we were talking about the Middle Ages we had Gregorian chants , or if we were doing the First World War we had First-world-war songs . |
| 9 | Nathan turned the conversation to the bear trap in the museum , asking Odd-Knut if he had seen it , and soon we were talking about the killing of film on seal killing had been shown , an indictment of the Norwegian sealers . |
| 10 | ‘ We were talking about the Battle of Jutland . |
| 11 | ‘ If we were talking about tuition fees , not maintenance , then talking about serious disincentives would carry a great deal of weight , ’ he said . |
| 12 | You were talking about life 's punishments just now , and maybe the fact that love is doomed from the off is one of them . |
| 13 | They were talking about him , he was sure of that . |
| 14 | And when he pointed out that these were Irish , not British Trade unions they were talking about , it was sadly admitted that the English disease had poisoned the minds of many impressionable Irish trade unionists and that it would of course take time entirely to eradicate malign English influences from the land of Saints and Scholars . |
| 15 | We were talking about Andrew coming home for the weekend and having the Bunkers round for drinks . |
| 16 | And all the time , in this turmoil of sexual ambiguities , we were talking about words , about poetry . |
| 17 | Like this afternoon — I went on about the armchairs being slashed in Madge 's house — We were talking about you at the time . |
| 18 | What 's more , Charity , I 've seen this actor you were talking about . |
| 19 | The ‘ White Rose ’ itself evidently gave rise to rumours , widely circulating in Bavaria and in many other parts of Germany ‘ about large demonstrations of Munich students ’ , unrest , and even revolutionary feeling in Munich , ‘ and people were talking about graffiti and fly-leaf propaganda with a Marxist content on public buildings in Berlin and in other cities ’ . |
| 20 | Now , we were talking about Dorking . |
| 21 | Now , we were talking about Dorking . … |
| 22 | ‘ We were talking about 1968 and 1969 and the songs that changed the face of country music — Sunday Morning Coming Down , Boy Named Sue , Lay Lady Lay , Both Sides Now — someone said they were songs that made a difference . |
| 23 | By the end of last week , Conservative strategists were talking about broadening Tory support still further from the 42 per cent achieved on Thursday . |
| 24 | ‘ I doubt if they would know what the bloody hell you were talking about . |
| 25 | The two gardeners often speculated over what they were talking about as Shaw and Charlotte circumnavigated the lawn together . |
| 26 | They were talking about having no other actors apart from the three main characters to be played by Hopper , Fonda and Rip Torn — in between Hopper 's directing and Hopper 's scriptwriting and Fonda 's production and Fonda 's co-scriptwriting work . |
| 27 | And while we were talking about Crippen , it would probably be unwise to choose as a role model someone who had been topped for the offence . |
| 28 | One minute , there they were talking about polyneuritis , next minute , there she was dying of it . |
| 29 | Callahan said to Chang : ‘ Yesterday you were talking about your shaper like he was your priest , as if you were having communion together . |
| 30 | We were talking about a point and I was not even particularly annoyed . |