Example sentences of "i [vb base] we [be] talking about " in BNC.
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| 1 | more information I mean this is , I mean this is part of what I was talk mythology I mean we 're talking about the index survey so when I raised the example of Churchill and the Churchill ex example is , was a good one because I mean he was an intellectual in his way , you know I mean he was a big bright cookie and but his was in terms of word count because he had a use of words for the way he used his words was how ordinary people would understand him I mean if you go back to you know we will fight them on the beaches and everything else I mean you think of the number of syllables he used in those words etcetera , etcetera I mean that 's sort of what I 'm getting to I mean he had his sharp succinct approach you know |
| 2 | No , but if you had the staff , I mean we 're talking about a hypothetical situation , would you still try doing that ? |
| 3 | I mean we 're talking about |
| 4 | You know but I mean when it comes to a screw and your , I mean we 're talking about coming like this to undo the screw . |
| 5 | ‘ I suggest we are talking about a murderer rather than murderers . |
| 6 | I suppose we 're talking about people who people other people the people who are paying the Poll Tax just do n't really care that much about . |
| 7 | I think we 're talking about anorexia here , are n't we ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Looking back to speaker C's third question , we can propose two versions of ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | I think we 're talking about once the suspension was over |
| 16 | I think we 're talking about |
| 17 | That 's the sort of unconscious bias that I think we 're talking about where |
| 18 | Yeah I presume we 're talking about Wimbledon prize money ? |
| 19 | You , you , we 're , I presume we 're talking about the sounds that can be heard by our ears , by |
| 20 | You may indeed call it a temperamental difference , but I venture we are talking about something rather more . |