Example sentences of "i [vb base] [pers pn] 're talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | I mean we 're talking eighty per cent . |
| 3 | No , but if you had the staff , I mean we 're talking about a hypothetical situation , would you still try doing that ? |
| 4 | I mean we 're talking about |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I mean we 're talking big numbers an hour are n't we really ? |
| 7 | 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 |
| 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 like I mean years , I mean really it 's |
| 10 | But I mean you 're talking |
| 11 | I mean you 're talking , you 're talking about old middle class rather staid people . |
| 12 | No , well the thing is I mean you 're talking of five or six hundred pounds |
| 13 | Well Peugeot I mean you 're talking a hell of a lot for spares . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I suppose we 're talking non-league here . |
| 18 | ‘ I bet they 're talking ‘ secrets ’ again . |
| 19 | I think we 're talking about anorexia here , are n't we ? |
| 20 | ‘ Up ’ ( and I think we 're talking more than the one level of ambiguity in that solitary two-letter word ) is a record that actually makes you feel happy , in that all of it is uplifting ( oi ! spiritually , not trouserly ) , you can dance to some of it and sing along to the rest , the words are rude and witty and always smart , and Richard Fairbrass is a fantastic pop singer , all post-Bowie and Ferry and languid , a sort of brightly-coloured Neil Tennant . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | From what we have proposed as speakers ' topics in conversational discourse , it must occasionally happen that there are at least two versions of ‘ What I think we 're talking about ’ which are potentially incompatible . |
| 24 | We might characterise speaker B's view of ‘ what I think we 're talking about now ’ as something involving herself , the 1930s , and the existence of telephones ( as well as radios ) at that time . |
| 25 | Speaker B's view of ‘ what I think we 're talking about now ’ must now involve speaker A , A's father , the Scouts and a man ( who may have something to do with telephones ) . |
| 26 | Looking back to speaker C's third question , we can propose two versions of ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ . |
| 27 | We might think that by the end of this fragment there is once again a single version for both speakers of ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ . |
| 28 | I think we 're talking at cross purposes . |
| 29 | I think we 're talking about once the suspension was over |
| 30 | I think we 're talking about |