Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] be talking [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Yes , I think you 're drawing a distinction between what you do in practice and what you 're booklet says , so I am talking about the letter of your booklet and what you do in practice might be a lot better . |
2 | Right , the , I was , about to er come to that , erm the erm , there is no reason why a group should not have more than one prisoner erm , the practical situation is that , that groups are queuing up to , to get a prisoner at the moment in fact , erm , not always the situation but at presently there is a waiting list for who have groups to have a prisoner allocated to them , erm , if we so wish er , ah , if , if a group comes onto the list who has er , ah , and their prisoner is released and , and we , we er in that situation we , and any group without a prisoner at all goes to the head of the list and be allocated straight away , but we could request a second prisoner and that case would be put to the bottom of the list , so when the other groups who , who 've got no prison will take priority now , but we , we could request a second prisoner if we so wanted so you are talking about a motion at the A G M , but it 's not really necessary |
3 | So we 're talking about a start date of next Thursday . |
4 | So we 're talking about the sixty acre sixty hectares that are allocated for the rest of the Harrogate district and er I should like formal confirmation from Mr Allenby privately already that there is no question of any part of the York , Greater York area allocation being transferred into the rest of the district should it fall through for any purpose . |
5 | So we 're talking about the seventeen hundred , eighteen hundred , and it was very often known as a national song , and we had a national song , probably before any other country . |
6 | So we are talking about a fairly dependent population . |
7 | Harvey said ‘ Hello ’ four times , then suddenly he was talking to a bald-headed man who seemed to have four overcoats on at once . |
8 | When we talk about online we 're talking about the ability for the software infrastructure to support decision support and transaction processing . |
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 | Yeah that was I mean them , men , men were working like we was talking about a little while ago about head bags |
11 | and er , we were like , we was on about , you know like we were talking about the education system and everything in English and you know I told you they were on about people changing at eleven and everyone else in the class wanted the thirteen system except me , it 's only cos what they 're used |
12 | Right we 're talking about the way you control the country , and the way you control the people . |
13 | Come on we 're talking about the job , the job description , really they 're there to please , er , er , this is written by one , one man and er , or one woman , and we 're just saying that the wording could be improved in that one little phraseology , that 's all . |
14 | Several weeks later I was talking to a friend who lives in the next town . |
15 | Ambulance to Raigmore Hospital , Inverness and a few hours later I was talking to the consultant . |
16 | A couple of days later you are talking to a close associate and all your anger and frustration surge out as you let go of your feelings about the meeting . |
17 | Now you 're talking as a , as a solicitor , yes ? |
18 | Now you 're talking about the AOL . |
19 | if you widen it out we 're talking about a consultation and I think in many ways we must respect the local member , erm |
20 | He was serving other people all the while and making out we were talking about the Superbowl . |
21 | erm they 're rather like sort of mutations are randomly related to the gene from which the mutation took place , but now we 're talking about a whole species suddenly arising with a new randomly arranged set of traits , and then the wholesale direction of evolution erm is determined by selection favouring some species in competition with other species . |
22 | Now he 's talking like a swot . |
23 | Now he was talking in the context of er of of a , er but it is something that I think the government does need to look at because given the nature of multi-national companies or even the nature of public companies and private companies in this country where there is a public interest , not just in efficiency but also in probity . |
24 | ‘ If you were sitting where I 'm sitting , getting claims every day — and here I 'm talking about the firms at large , not Bill Morrison personally , you understand — you would n't want to know , would you ? ’ |
25 | Well we were talking about the general lack of faith in governments |
26 | Well we were talking about the Jordan motor racing team , and talking about the major sponsorship deal from soft drink manufacturers Seven Up . |
27 | Well , I 'd just like to comment on the , as here we 're talking about the Environment Officer . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | Here we are talking of the emotional covenant , the often unconscious commitment to make the selves of the two partners more whole through the interchange between them — a commitment to stay with the struggle of maturation within the relationship . |
30 | He told me that he got an awful rocket from the Director of Accounts when he handed in the bill which worked out at several hundred pounds — and here we are talking of the year 1946 ! |