Example sentences of "[be] talking of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And while we 're talking of friends , ’ said his Mum , sitting down beside him with her tea . |
| 2 | ’ — then you 're talking of the worst catcher ever not signed by the New York Giants . ’ |
| 3 | Well , just , but no-one writes 'em like Sebadoh , unless you 're talking of the surfeit of spirit that infused Alex Chilton 's wildest torch-songs , the challenging of expectations Sonic Youth practise or the studied waywardness of The Fall . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're talking of the Brotherhood ? ’ |
| 5 | As one of McLaughlin 's respondents , who had been caring for her mother for seven years , pointed out : ‘ Well that really is a nonsense because the amount it is at the moment compared to anybody that 's had the chance of a full-time job , you 're talking of £24 as opposed to a job of about £98 ’ ( McLaughlin , 1991 , p. 48 ) . |
| 6 | You mean this is the present group you 're talking of ? |
| 7 | You 're talking of today ? |
| 8 | ‘ You 're talking of her as if she were an infectious disease . ’ |
| 9 | While we 're talking of things charitable , I was listening to a phone-in about animal rights liberationists , in the wake of the last bombing . |
| 10 | ‘ While we 're talking of being practical ’ — Christian removed the pipe from his mouth — ‘ have you both given any thought to where you 'll be living when you 're married ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ They 're talking of little else , ’ said the head groom . |
| 12 | We 're talking of course about the air we breathe . |
| 13 | we 're talking of Brampton |
| 14 | In assistants particularly with part time you 're talking of the order of fifty to fifty five percent . |
| 15 | Right , erm , what happens then , Philip , if the client says to you , and it 's unlikely with Covermaster , but it 's the same principle if you 're talking of a savings plan or a pension , erm , I do n't like the idea of my money being invested in a managed fund , I 've been reading the financial press , and I 'm very interested and excited at the thought of the Japanese market going up through the roof . |
| 16 | You 're talking of .. ? |
| 17 | What I do n't quite understand is what was the legal basis on which they went ahead with this despite the objection , presumably as some of the trustees as to what was being done , I could hear we 're talking of er a deficit of one point seven billion appearing or it a surplus disappearing into a deficit , which is actually four times as much has disappeared out of Maxwell . |
| 18 | You talk about if it 's something you 're used to you talk about something and you know what you 're talking of and somebody a bit like actual |
| 19 | It 's been toyed with a few times but as far I 'm aware , this is probably the first serious attempt — certainly at the sort of scale we 're talking of — to use a perched beach to provide coastal protection . |
| 20 | We 're talking of a life threatening situation , certainly a disabling situation . |
| 21 | ‘ Last year eight of the lads toured India , this year they 're talking of Zimbabwe , ’ says the chairman . |
| 22 | If if if you 're talking of pieces of cake , then three fifths , six tenths , there 's no difference . |
| 23 | Now what I 'm saying to you is that there 's a big question mark as far as Goodey er report is concerned and they can talk about er the surpluses , they can talk about the trustees , but there 's no majority as far as the employees are concerned and this was the question mark that we we were saying that one of the reasons why they were saying you know that the employee should be in the minority because in the end paragraph of the summing up of the Goodey report that states quite clearly that all the responsibility and all the but the employer , now you yourself has said that er as far as the schemes and we 're talking of something in the region of a hundred and twenty eight thousand . |
| 24 | Cos we 're talking of the same product , one , one , quotes ninety six dollars and the other quotes a hundred and thirty seven dollars . |
| 25 | No , well the thing is I mean you 're talking of five or six hundred pounds |
| 26 | You 're talking of one now . |
| 27 | Erm now they 're talking of doing roadside interviews in both directions on the motorway on the slip roads . |
| 28 | I mean , you 're talking of sort of , fifteen hundred |
| 29 | There was an old deckhouse off a ship and these old chaps used to meet there and I suppose they 'd be talking of old times — shipbuilding . |
| 30 | We would be talking of the iniquities of bottled ale when a shadow crossed his eyes . |