Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pers pn] was talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's just the kind I was talking about , ’ said Garvey over his shoulder . |
| 2 | There is a sense in which after much complex art , much elaborate art , much sermonizing art of the sort I was talking about earlier , people sometimes get the urge to simplify things down and in a sense they say let's go back to the five finger exercise , let's see what a note on the piano sounds like instead of playing , you know , Chopin or Stravinsky all the time , let's remind ourselves what the actual note sounds like , or two notes together , or one note and then a gap and then another note , and you suddenly become aware of the richness , in a sense in these very simple elements . |
| 3 | But she undercuts this realization with footnotes which describe similarities , but no differences , in the articulation of gender in homosexual relationships ; and which parallel the unconscious splits generated by discourses of gender , with those generated by racist discourses : ‘ When I made generalisations about women ( almost always derogatory ) , I did not include myself in the group I was talking about … . |
| 4 | that the person he was talking with was not just a teacher , there was something else about him ! |
| 5 | All the while she was talking Kathleen was undressing the woman . |
| 6 | ‘ It was the dog I was talking to ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Do you remember the man I was talking to in the club ? |
| 8 | The night after the broadcast I was talking with an African nationalist in the Harare township . |
| 9 | And anyway so we went to er over to Egypt and then it was when we came back and I I , the other morning on the radio they was talking about asking people to ring in about , I 've never rang in , I never bother ring , er how they spent their twenty first birthday . |
| 10 | Each time I got back to Rocamar Peter would say , ‘ Well ? ’ and I would shrug and pretend I did n't know what the hell he was talking about . ’ |
| 11 | It was put in there to make us all wonder what the hell he was talking about . |
| 12 | ‘ The other thing , ’ Thomas said , ‘ the reason I was talking to George Roxborough — well , he called me . |
| 13 | this is the book he was talking about that 's been brought back if anyone wants it . |
| 14 | Though the latter was at this time a much celebrated amateur artist he was surprised , on arriving , when Minton detached himself from the crowd he was talking with in order to cross the room and greet Cornish by name . |
| 15 | I do n't know perhaps he does , I do n't actually know Ken , I thought the way he was talking though that this chap |
| 16 | And the way she was talking it looked like they were gon they were going to put some more and invest some time , money |
| 17 | Whenever I passed the Treasurer he was talking not of £s but of the difficulty of ‘ number 14 ’ . |
| 18 | And all the time I was talking I rolled my swabs back and forth over the frozen Thames . |
| 19 | At the time I was talking to the magistrate I had no doubt at all that the Duke of Marlborough would give evidence for me , if necessary . |
| 20 | Erm the reason I 'm asking is because I suspect it would have been greater at the time I was talking about all the ago though . |
| 21 | ‘ And what , might I ask , sir , was he doing at the time he was talking about the bell ? ’ |
| 22 | So the researcher went to Birmingham to meet him and all the time he was talking to the patients , she was thinking , ‘ We 've got to go ! ’ |
| 23 | He figured all the time he was talking he 'd be keeping me from smashing up his hand with the gun-butt . |
| 24 | For most of the time he was talking , Merymose 's expression remained set . |
| 25 | Erm you know , and these achievements , he 's not saying that you know re rev revolution 's the way forward , he 's actually saying look what 's happened before under the system that existed er previously , er well it actually existed , you know , at the time he was talking about , there does seem to be an effort by the peasants erm you know to , to improve their lot and therefore wha while he cites revolution in a way you , you can argue it is a bit strange because they seem to be , according to him , have improved their lot under the system that was there in the first place , erm |
| 26 | All the time she was talking her thin hands stroked the silk of her dress . |