Example sentences of "what i [vb base] we [be] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that this explanation is not an acceptable answer to the question , but it is presented by the speaker in a form which conveys ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ in this part of the conversation . |
| 2 | Characterising the individual speaker 's topic as ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ incorporates both that element which the conversational analyst tends to abstract as the ‘ topic of conversation ’ for the participants ( 'What we 're talking about' ) and the individual speaker 's version ( 'I think' ) , as he/she makes a conversational contribution . |
| 3 | From what we have proposed as speakers ' topics in conversational discourse , it must occasionally happen that there are at least two versions of ‘ What I think we 're talking about ’ which are potentially incompatible . |
| 4 | We might characterise speaker B's view of ‘ what I think we 're talking about now ’ as something involving herself , the 1930s , and the existence of telephones ( as well as radios ) at that time . |
| 5 | Speaker B's view of ‘ what I think we 're talking about now ’ must now involve speaker A , A's father , the Scouts and a man ( who may have something to do with telephones ) . |
| 6 | Looking back to speaker C's third question , we can propose two versions of ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ . |
| 7 | We might think that by the end of this fragment there is once again a single version for both speakers of ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ . |