Example sentences of "of what [pers pn] [be] talk " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I think that I would , really a lot of what we 're talking about here is actually male chauvinism |
| 2 | in in my course of work , I have three grown up sons and I think an awful lot of what we 're talking about is in your own attitude to men , and generally the most difficult men to deal with , I find , are men who for whatever reason , are actually inadequate , a little bit sensitive to women being competent I I have no difficulty at all in dealing with that , but I I 'm aware that it seems significant to me that a lot of the younger women here are much more shall we say , sensitive to erm , what I perceive as being basically male chauvinism . |
| 3 | So that 's , that 's , I mean you can give a very precise mathematical definitions of what we 're talking about . |
| 4 | Have you any idea of what we 're talking about ? ’ |
| 5 | There can be no justification for the comments we have heard from certain leaders of right wing er trade unions , who wish to take away the very principle of what we 're talking about , the block vote , especially one , when one of 'em , allegedly , who have n't even bothered to pay their contributions to the General Election Fund . |
| 6 | And , and I mean I , I , I 'm making I 'm mak I 'm deliberately making these points because he is viewed as someone who perhaps would n't have been a Sun type but more of a , a Telegraph type or whatever , but when you 've analyzed his , his words and his speeches and everything else in terms of what we 're talking about the tabloids or broadsheets or whatever , you know he would , his language would have fitted in more neatly to the tabloid style than the the Telegraph style . |
| 7 | Let me let me cite a commercial organization which , to give you an idea , I know you 're not commercial in that particular sense , of what we 're talking about . |
| 8 | Referring expressions fulfil a dual purpose of unifying the text ( they depend upon some of the subject matter remaining the same ) and of economy , because they save us from having to repeat the identity of what we are talking about again and again . |
| 9 | He was in no state to form an idea of what we were talking about . |
| 10 | This happy coincidence — happy , that is , for all those visionaries and seers who speak in sonorous phrases about the ‘ New Pacific Century ’ and the ‘ Grand Pacific Age ’ , and find such a discovery a perfect symbol of what they 're talking about — has been the case ever since 22 October 1884 , when a group of scientists and politicians met in a hotel in Washington DC and set down the rules by which the planet was henceforth to organize the keeping of its time . |
| 11 | At least from the point of with Labour at least they most of them send their kids through the state system so they 've got a little more idea of what they 're talking about . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she swiftly apologised , when she could see he could n't make head or tail of what she was talking about . |
| 13 | ‘ The label of an actuary is usually enough to have people take note of what you are talking about ’ was one young actuary 's recent verdict on the reputation of the profession . |
| 14 | ‘ Alan , I do n't know half of what you 're talking about — people at work and all that- ’ |
| 15 | So we think of them as being descriptive , but in reality , if you 're going to say to somebody , you 're very responsible , they 're probably not going to know what you mean , unless you come up with a few examples of what you 're talking about , of how they 've demonstrated that type of behaviour . |
| 16 | Well as long as you continue to talk about particulate depositions , when you mean smuts on Mrs Brown 's last clean white shirt , nobody 's going to understand a great deal of what you 're talking about . |
| 17 | ‘ But if you 're disillusioned now it 's partly because of what I 'm talking about ; the radicalism of Thatcher that seemed so fresh . |
| 18 | An example , er , of what I 'm talking about , which I think shows this very nicely , and is , is something I wanted to mention , because it 's important in itself , is the shifts in Freud 's views on anxiety . |
| 19 | Madam Deputy Speaker I was gon na give a very illustrative example of what I 'm talking about but perhaps I will allow the house to have that example on another occasion because I actually would prefer not to be er er er prevented from giving you the most vivid story of what I 'm talking about . |
| 20 | Madam Deputy Speaker I was gon na give a very illustrative example of what I 'm talking about but perhaps I will allow the house to have that example on another occasion because I actually would prefer not to be er er er prevented from giving you the most vivid story of what I 'm talking about . |
| 21 | If I can give you an example of what I 'm talking about , part of the information we receive of course is erm surface , weather reports taken by weather observers at all sorts of places across the face of the earth . |
| 22 | He was always surprised that no one else had the faintest idea of what he was talking about . |
| 23 | Wilkie said it was Alexander she ought to talk to about Van Gogh and Hodgkiss said Alexander was an excellent example of what he was talking about , the effect of this light , the difficulty of fixing colours . |