Example sentences of "[pron] be talking [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An when I am talking to meself in poetry I talk , |
| 2 | Here I am talking to you about myself — a thing I assure you I very very rarely do — while you are shrinking from making the slightest personal communication to me . |
| 3 | I 'm , I 'm talking to him about the planned s filing system as well , which is |
| 4 | I remember once I took you by the shoulders and said , ‘ Listen , love , I 'm talking to you about your mother . ’ |
| 5 | I 've never covered things like comparative questions , when I talk to you about close and , you know basically what I 'm talking to you about |
| 6 | The issue , the point I 'm trying to make is that in talking for all of the bodies , whether I 'm talking about for the council or whether I 'm talking about them at the same time or separately , one thing I 'm not doing is talking from my point of view . |
| 7 | I were talking to him on Friday , and er , I mean , they 've not been down there five minutes . |
| 8 | I were talking to her for about half an hour . |
| 9 | you can do it because as you read through your notes as someone 's talking to you in the lecture you will be saying , Yeah of course of course . |
| 10 | I was talking to her at a women 's group meeting — we were playing records . |
| 11 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 12 | jumping around while I was talking to her on the phone , I was getting so pissed the phone . |
| 13 | And then I was talking to somebody about this and they and they burst out laughing and said well we 've got a friend , a male friend a mate of mine he said and he loves walking . |
| 14 | I was talking to somebody in bread shop and she 's doing it as well |
| 15 | Well I was talking to him about it , I said I reckon you 've spent the you 've spent quite a bit now so you might as well just go another get final . |
| 16 | I was talking to him about that and I got a totally different response from him that I expected did n't mind . |
| 17 | ‘ I was talking to him in the post office . ’ |
| 18 | Like , cos I was talking to him in the party , yeah ? |
| 19 | If I was talking to you on the street and you had asked me where such-and-such a street was , that was all right . |
| 20 | If I was talking to you as my pal , I 'd get done for idling my time . |
| 21 | was it comparative I was talking to you about ? |
| 22 | More seriously , his understated , meditative style is lost : the impression is that his timing is fine , the audience 's is all wrong : ‘ I was talking to someone at a party the other night … he happened to mention that he was reading Virginia Woolf 's letters . |
| 23 | er a lot of the time , I was talking to someone at er |
| 24 | I was talking to someone in the Federation the other day , the Police Federation , trying to tease out this idea a and they said the sort of a permanent Under Secretary . |
| 25 | ‘ I was n't ; it was only when I was talking about it to Gina that I thought I ought to come here and tell you . ’ |
| 26 | I mean somebody 's talking to you about something different . |
| 27 | So I said ‘ Well , there 's no need to be frightened of him , he would n't touch you ’ , but you see then somebody was talking to me on the phone last night and said the same thing ‘ We do n't come any more to say prayers as we go through the churchyard because we 're frightened ’ . |
| 28 | I s I heard something about somebody was talking to me about it a little while ago . |
| 29 | The , the problem was of course , this was a culture where adolescent girls do not contradict important American ladies who are talking to them through interpreters . |
| 30 | and it 's a case of er if you 're talking to somebody about pension requirement it would be a case of Mr Prospect let's just have a look , let's imagine today is the last day that you 'll be working as a carpenter . |