Example sentences of "i [vb base] [pers pn] be talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean they was talking about getting a really small for erm |
| 2 | I mean they were talking on the video about profit margins , but he did n't company he was supposed to achieve , presumably there was a minimum for all three of them , so What else would you do with Bernard ? |
| 3 | I mean we 're talking as if these young women who feel uncomfortable erm are feeling uncomfortable because of something that 's objectively in the |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | No , but if you had the staff , I mean we 're talking about a hypothetical situation , would you still try doing that ? |
| 6 | I mean we 're talking about |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No compensation , but I , I mean I 'm talking about after government or anything like that . |
| 9 | And I mean I 'm talking in matter of a few thousand pounds , to do for for a whole year . |
| 10 | But wha what 's y what 's your opinis opinion I mean you 're talking about erm the er marriage from er er er spiritual standpoint from a christian standpoint and here we have the man who erm if he became king would be head of the Church of England assuming it has n't become disestablished by then . |
| 11 | I mean you 're talking about having computers in the offices and perhaps in the home , now this must have great impact on the future education needs of people who are going to use these devices , surely ? |
| 12 | No , well the thing is I mean you 're talking of five or six hundred pounds |
| 13 | I was gon na say about sex education that when I was learning at school , it 's also very male dominated erm it was , I mean you were talking about erm what 's i li , the differences between males and females learning about sex education and wha , and we were learnt about the the man having pleasure , we were taught about the man having the erection and the man having the orgasm , I mean , we did n't even know what a clitoris was ! |
| 14 | I mean he was talking to Norman over the fence the other day and it sounds like gunfire |
| 15 | I mean she 's talking about it and I said well I thought at five they were probably a bit young . |
| 16 | ‘ I suggest we are talking about a murderer rather than murderers . |
| 17 | I 'd just like to say that only Conservatives could actually put need in one paragraph and slip straight into financial in the next and I assume they 're talking about the same thing . |
| 18 | I mean even I understand you were talking about the children sort of being out in the dark on their own erm even just something as simple as that . |
| 19 | But I think we see that with the capital programme , that quite clearly you 're erm , having to take into account the fact that capital spend erm , can not be er maintained at the level it has in the past , and indeed I believe you are talking about this matter , er , later on this morning . |
| 20 | After half an hour 's dedicated sales pitch , I find I am talking to a devoted collector of Hummel figurines . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I think we 're talking about anorexia here , are n't we ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | Looking back to speaker C's third question , we can propose two versions of ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | I think we 're talking about once the suspension was over |