Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [am/are] talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No compensation , but I , I mean I 'm talking about after government or anything like that . |
| 2 | And I mean I 'm talking in matter of a few thousand pounds , to do for for a whole year . |
| 3 | And I was in a ca , er school over the summer holidays and er , we were looking at the design and technology and the point was that they got ta design and make some components , and realise I 'm talking about , you know , six , seven , eight year old , mixed girls and boys theirselves , and it was ra rather heart-warming to see where the way these youngsters react . |
| 4 | ‘ I suggest we are talking about a murderer rather than murderers . |
| 5 | Imagine now communication I 'm talking about not only through letter and telephone I 'm talking about total communication . |
| 6 | Ya Yasunsgat we 're talking about , it 's a |
| 7 | No , well the thing is I mean you 're talking of five or six hundred pounds |
| 8 | But wha what 's y what 's your opinis opinion I mean you 're talking about erm the er marriage from er er er spiritual standpoint from a christian standpoint and here we have the man who erm if he became king would be head of the Church of England assuming it has n't become disestablished by then . |
| 9 | I mean you 're talking about having computers in the offices and perhaps in the home , now this must have great impact on the future education needs of people who are going to use these devices , surely ? |
| 10 | Look I 'm talking to daddy , I 've not seen him ye for a while . |
| 11 | more information I mean this is , I mean this is part of what I was talk mythology I mean we 're talking about the index survey so when I raised the example of Churchill and the Churchill ex example is , was a good one because I mean he was an intellectual in his way , you know I mean he was a big bright cookie and but his was in terms of word count because he had a use of words for the way he used his words was how ordinary people would understand him I mean if you go back to you know we will fight them on the beaches and everything else I mean you think of the number of syllables he used in those words etcetera , etcetera I mean that 's sort of what I 'm getting to I mean he had his sharp succinct approach you know |
| 12 | No , but if you had the staff , I mean we 're talking about a hypothetical situation , would you still try doing that ? |
| 13 | I mean we 're talking about |
| 14 | You know but I mean when it comes to a screw and your , I mean we 're talking about coming like this to undo the screw . |
| 15 | I mean we 're talking as if these young women who feel uncomfortable erm are feeling uncomfortable because of something that 's objectively in the |
| 16 | So that 's what flat machines do , they knit , these particular Jacquard and , and that 's what the continentals were good at , it , cos they look , I mean they were far more , we 're so conservative in this country , little better now obviously we do more nowad you know we 're talking about just after the war the Italians and the French were into colour , not garish colour , subtle lovely colours . |
| 17 | Remember we 're talking about people who are eighty or ninety moving a bit . |
| 18 | You know they 're talking about and , the Queen , and the Princess and they 're talking about the sh Princess Diana 's anorexic . |
| 19 | I 'd just like to say that only Conservatives could actually put need in one paragraph and slip straight into financial in the next and I assume they 're talking about the same thing . |
| 20 | After half an hour 's dedicated sales pitch , I find I am talking to a devoted collector of Hummel figurines . |
| 21 | I often say jokingly that you make a comment to somebody and you find you 're talking to the world export on expert on whatever it is . |
| 22 | But I think we see that with the capital programme , that quite clearly you 're erm , having to take into account the fact that capital spend erm , can not be er maintained at the level it has in the past , and indeed I believe you are talking about this matter , er , later on this morning . |
| 23 | I suppose we 're talking about people who people other people the people who are paying the Poll Tax just do n't really care that much about . |
| 24 | ‘ I think I am talking for us all when I say that we will gladly work for nothing , just until matters improve , we have all been so happy here at Summer Lodge and each and every one of us would like to stay with you wherever you go . ’ |
| 25 | I 'm I think I 'm talking about the words first of all . |
| 26 | So I think I 've I mean you put me right , but I think I 'm talking about the words , rather than the essential message . |
| 27 | Some love you 're talking about . |
| 28 | I think we 're talking about anorexia here , are n't we ? |
| 29 | It may be that this explanation is not an acceptable answer to the question , but it is presented by the speaker in a form which conveys ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ in this part of the conversation . |
| 30 | Characterising the individual speaker 's topic as ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ incorporates both that element which the conversational analyst tends to abstract as the ‘ topic of conversation ’ for the participants ( 'What we 're talking about' ) and the individual speaker 's version ( 'I think' ) , as he/she makes a conversational contribution . |