Example sentences of "we were talking [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well — when I was at the camp on Saturday night , we were talking about dreams . ’ |
| 2 | I was pleased we were talking about girls because I felt this was a subject where Andy 's two extra years did n't really count ; I was effectively the same age as him , and maybe I even knew more than he did because I mixed with girls every day and he only really knew his sister Clare . |
| 3 | Oh well we were talking about funding , I 've actually got an account for expenses |
| 4 | Now I , I mentioned that you , you 're a , a neurosurgeon , we were talking about neurosurgery , but does it have applications for other parts of , of medicine ? |
| 5 | Er before I went off , we were talking about packaging , have we decided to bring any in yet ? |
| 6 | We were talking about feathers . |
| 7 | She said to Tim : ‘ We were talking about art , I think . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought , ’ Haverford said , puzzled by the turn the conversation was taking , ‘ that we were talking about love . ’ |
| 9 | erm I just put that up , which should have been up while we were talking about money , which is erm the beautiful Oxford crown , which you can see downstairs , which was minted at New Inn Hall , the college that emptied , and was turned into the mint , mostly from college plate . |
| 10 | I says well I do n't know to be honest , I says I do n't deal with them , but we were talking about Mercury these cross-routing got one of these systems here |
| 11 | And while we were talking about Brighton ( away back up there in the message ) , god is nt Brightons kit crap ? |
| 12 | We were talking about Ireland before you arrived . |
| 13 | We were talking about budget decisions and after the microphones closed at the end of the programme they commented about that home in Blenheim Road in Kidlington , and to them it was n't healthy . |
| 14 | Consequently , I was not surprised in our seminar discussions to find myself directing more questions and raising more problems when we were talking about structure and discourse than when the focus was on lexis . |
| 15 | Well we were talking about timing for people , you 're the same time in your car as you are in |
| 16 | ‘ We were talking about Charles and Henrietta . |
| 17 | ‘ We were talking about ransoms too and I said I would pay to save the life — ’ |
| 18 | Maybe it 's the most important thing I do but I think that when it 's elevated in the way we were talking about sexuality being elevated , it 's done a disservice . |
| 19 | Last week we were talking about food and fuel in third world countries . |
| 20 | We were talking about death and exchanging gruesome ghost stories . |
| 21 | ‘ We were talking about Tom . ’ |
| 22 | We were talking about Tom ? |
| 23 | We were talking about flowers and I mentioned the wild garlic which I had seen growing in Wiltshire . |
| 24 | ‘ We were talking about radiation transmitted from the cosmos and he mentioned about his space flight , ’ explained Eric , who thought nothing more of it until he received the signed sticker through the post . |
| 25 | Well we were talking about mating . |
| 26 | Now , we were talking about Dorking . |
| 27 | Now , we were talking about Dorking . … |
| 28 | ‘ We were talking about Kirsty , ’ she prompted in a cool tone . |
| 29 | Do you know whe we , we were talking about qualifications , right ? |
| 30 | We were talking about Andrew coming home for the weekend and having the Bunkers round for drinks . |