Example sentences of "am talking " in BNC.
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| 31 | My order will not succeed as an order unless the person I am talking to is obliged to clean their boots ( condition 3 ) , and I have the right and the power to make them do so ( condition 4 ) . |
| 32 | You know what I am talking about . ’ |
| 33 | I am talking to a man who has seen things I can only imagine . |
| 34 | Fanon makes a parallel point as regards racism , at the beginning of Black Skins , White Masks , where he states : ‘ I am talking of millions of people who have been skilfully injected with fear , inferiority complexes , trepidation , servility , despair , abasement ’ ( Fanon , 1968 ) . |
| 35 | I have been a supporter of this club since before the war , so I know what I am talking about . |
| 36 | Honestly , Les , this team is the biggest load of rubbish we have had here since I 've been a supporter and I started before the war , so I know what I am talking about . |
| 37 | Syntactic behaviour and contrastiveness aside , it is tempting to interpret a Chinese-style topic in the same way as theme , that is , as meaning something like ‘ This is my starting point ; this is what I am talking about . ’ |
| 38 | The man I am talking about got up slowly . |
| 39 | I am talking about science . ’ |
| 40 | Mr. Wilson : I am grateful for your guidance , Mr. Deputy Speaker , but I assure you that I am talking about the disabled only in terms of the general need for consumer protection , which is encompassed in new clause S. |
| 41 | Brown : Uh … well yes because I really am talking about one-to-one stuff and that 's why I do n't think you can do what I 'm talking about in a class … |
| 42 | After half an hour 's dedicated sales pitch , I find I am talking to a devoted collector of Hummel figurines . |
| 43 | Now what I am talking about is a very simple concept illustrated in figure 3 . |
| 44 | The differences in contents in different individuals come about in the following manner , and here I must stress that I am talking about sexually reproducing species such as our own . |
| 45 | You and your family are the friends that I am talking about . ’ |
| 46 | I am talking about the famous House of Ormstein , Kings of Bohemia . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ I am talking about your lateness for the ‘ half ’ . ’ |
| 48 | As some of his remarks in the Criterion commentaries made clear , he was not hostile to the idea of Empire , ‘ whatever the Daily Express may say ’ ; and if this should rouse the indignation of anti-imperialists , it should be realized that I am talking about a bygone era , since which the world-scene has been transformed , and the term colonialism is now employed usually in the service of invective . |
| 49 | I am talking about during the First World War , you see . |
| 50 | I am talking about grammar schools actually because erm the work that I was concerned with was in the secondary education which erm translated really means meant grammar school education , so that the schools that erm I had most contact with were the grammar schools . |
| 51 | I am talking about the occasional and varied insertion of a comment clause as a means of making a monologue flow smoothly , or identifying a change-point for the dialogue — you know ? — or as a means of establishing rapport , you see , or a gentler conversational style . |
| 52 | Naturally this depends on the type of area and I am talking about hilly rural areas like this one . |
| 53 | I am talking about Northern Ireland . |
| 54 | I am talking about the real world — about what is happening out there . |
| 55 | The Government 's commitment to the environment can have no credibility — I stress that I am talking about the Government , not the Minister — if the Prime Minister and the Chancellor do not think that the environment is important , even if lesser Ministers do . |
| 56 | I am talking about a statutory register . |
| 57 | I am talking about the first attempt to amend regulation 72 to exclude supplementary benefit and national assistance from the scope of that regulation . |
| 58 | I am talking not about someone working in an office for a couple of hours but about men working 3,000 ft underground in heat of up to 120 deg , who must swallow salt tablets to stop themselves fainting during their shifts . |
| 59 | I am talking about a public sector reserve , state supported , composed of people without jobs for the time being , who are receiving training . |
| 60 | I am talking about prisoners who do not want problems in serving their sentence ; they want to serve it in a civilised fashion , where that is possible in any prison regime . |