Example sentences of "[subord] you be talking [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's the difference between arts and science , because you 've actually got something there you can look at and study , so you 're talking about facts , whereas in the arts side it 's all airy-fairy and you 're beating about the bush a lot . |
| 2 | If you are talking to people you will talk in a quite different mode from that which you will adopt when you 're writing . |
| 3 | If you are talking of definitives you are talking of Olivier as Richard III , Charles Laughton as the Hunchback of Notre Dame , W C Fields as Mr Micawber , Phil Silvers as Ernie Bilko , and Albert Sharpe as Darby O'Gill . |
| 4 | " If you are talking about biodiversity , then I do n't see any reason for optimism , " said the Goddard Center 's Compton Tucker . |
| 5 | If you are talking about marketing pot plants , then some of the sample plants will help to draw your audience 's attention to the subject . |
| 6 | If if if you 're talking of pieces of cake , then three fifths , six tenths , there 's no difference . |
| 7 | The great thing about him is , when you walk into a room — and it does n't matter if you 're talking to senators or salesmen — he 'll say , ‘ Do you know Tip Anderson ? ’ |
| 8 | If you 're talking about youngsters and in a modern i in then in fact abbreviations like that are quite commonly used now in narrative and dialogue and of course in dialogue I mean |
| 9 | if you 're talking about matrices , |
| 10 | Okay , if you 're talking about child development , you 're gon na use , if you 're talking about er psychoanalysis you 're gon na use Freud , or psychoanalytical techniques . |
| 11 | If you 're talking about learning theory , well I 've given you a few names . |
| 12 | If you 're talking about power transmission , right , and somebody puts erm two hundred kilowatts |
| 13 | For example , if you 're talking about marketing again , to the same audience with John the marketing manager and his department present , you could say : ‘ I 'm going to talk a little about the marketing concept . |
| 14 | Paralysis , when a limb is paralysed there is complete loss of movement and feeling , if you 're talking about paralysis , loss of limbs , we 're talking about the severance , would you believe , of any two limbs . |
| 15 | If you 're talking , if you 're talking about L M S giving people rights and choice , you have n't spoken to that many heads because most heads wan na get on with the business of educating people , not being financial bureaucrats trying to balance inadequate school budgets . |
| 16 | That 's all down if you 're talking about jail , prison , that 's all down to the m remember I went , talking to you about the court ? |
| 17 | It 's you know , if you 're talking in milliseconds and then you go to five years , |
| 18 | Her arm was like this only ever such a little hand and if you , she used to go and it just sort of reached your earhole when she was walking past you and if you were talking in class she 'd go . |
| 19 | Your dog can be trained to stay or sleep here while you are talking to visitors in the room or , indeed , sitting there on your own . |
| 20 | Erm it is a social gathering and whether people get er , er get rooked er , they get done or whether they get a bargain or whatever happens , they , they seem to enjoy it , but nevertheless it 's done according to whether you want to make money , the person owning the land wants to make a bit of money , there are a number of entrepeneurs who actually arrange and the middleman who actually goes round booking up the sites and so when you 're talking about charity a charity will get it organised for you by an entre , entrepeneur and then there 's the er the er the traders themselves , some of whom may be purely independent , some the , some may be obviously dealing with that ta erm that kind of aspect which is not exactly possibly legal . |
| 21 | Nobody ever got rich by just going on talk shows — well , not on mine , anyway — and when you 're talking about actors who are paid millions of pounds for one film , then I suspect their accountants advise them against it . |
| 22 | But I was talking to a Prof up there the other day , the actual A level , do you know , it 's pathetic really , I mean when you 're talking about law degrees you want about threes A's at A and now even accepting C's A , A level C's for engineering itself ! |
| 23 | But if that that was only I was gon na say the other thing , when you 're talking about damage you know , at one time I would suggest that a good many years , you would n't see any damage out there . |
| 24 | But it was agreed was it not that er there ought to be coupled with that , it seems appropriate when you 're talking about water supplies . |
| 25 | Er to contact when you 're talking about forgiveness er well that was just the end you know that point . |
| 26 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |
| 27 | If you stand in front of a mirror and look at yourself and say , okay I 'm just too fat , I 'm going on a diet , and you have sufficient willpower to stick to your diet , you will lose weight , so when you 're talking about behaviour , it 's not so stupid to think that will is associated with the final outcome , because we know that people can will things which have , which have affects on their emotions and their , and their behaviour and their state of mind . |
| 28 | This was because there are so many old Spanish customs within the company and rigidities of thinking which take a hell of a lot of changing when you 're talking about people . |
| 29 | I mean you know , if you 're talki when you 're talking about training needs , if you have something like that it 's obviously much more formal is n't it . |
| 30 | So when you 're talking about marketing and the marketing manager 's in the audience , you could say , ‘ Whoops , I 'm on dangerous ground — I know John over there knows a lot more about this than I do . ’ |