Example sentences of "they be not talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , it 's the pay formula er that is that is the problem in your mind , er have you got any suggestion that they are n't talking about that ? |
| 2 | People can go on communicating for hours on end , but if they are not talking about the really important issue , the time is not well spent . |
| 3 | When some sociologists talk of the ‘ socialization function of the family ’ , therefore , they are not talking of a family deliberately and consciously performing a function assigned to it from outside by ‘ society ’ , but rather of a more subtle process that arises out of the facts of being married , of sharing a residence over a long period of time , and of parenthood . |
| 4 | I told him he 'd better tell his friends , or his girlfriends , that when they call at our house if they do n't give names , they 're not talking to him ! |
| 5 | So when people talk about Freud 's Lamarckism , they 're not talking about what Darwin and Freud understood as Lamarckism , evolution by will , with progressive improvement , what they 're talking about is what everybody believed to be true , the inheritance of acquired characteristics . |
| 6 | People do n't know anything about the things that they 're not talking about , you 've had no experience of it , you do n't know , you know of the bad hairpieces and wigs |
| 7 | No , they , they 're not talking about that , not talking about that . |
| 8 | They were n't talking about Edwin Garland ; Edwin had enjoyed life in his own way . |
| 9 | And the other thing you have to bear in mind is that at the time the original structure plan was drawn up , they were n't talking about the er the structural employment problems that we are at the moment . |
| 10 | Now the the girls did n't know it was there and it 's a good job that they were n't talking about him or talking about anybody . |
| 11 | And I said to dad I said , It 's a good job they were n't talking about one of the other staff or anything or about Mark or anything . |