Example sentences of "[verb] we [be] talking " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I suggest we are talking about a murderer rather than murderers .
2 Oh yes , pick anything up in the room I think , you know , that 's reasonable loud , not to worry we were talking , talking about Shetland 's Lowe were n't we ?
3 Ya Yasunsgat we 're talking about , it 's a
4 No , My Lords , I entirely disagree with the Noble Lord er furthermore as I 've already said we 're talking the builders site not the library in today 's question .
5 ‘ As you can see we are talking sub rosa , ’ she said pointing to the wild roses above our heads , ‘ so I am about to let you into a secret .
6 but there is that level and kind of education provided in the other Colleges of Further Education , and likewise it would not affect them either , so I do n't think we 're talking about necessarily a major part of the sixth form provision in the county .
7 It 's not twenty one years I do n't think we 're talking about .
8 I do n't think we are talking about kept in reasonable health dear I think it is a question of living in an environment which does not genuinely support over any sensible period of time normal human life .
9 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
10 I mean we 're talking eighty per cent .
11 No , but if you had the staff , I mean we 're talking about a hypothetical situation , would you still try doing that ?
12 I mean we 're talking about
13 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 .
14 I mean we 're talking big numbers an hour are n't we really ?
15 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
16 one-offish basis , I mean we are talking a certain one of
17 So that 's what flat machines do , they knit , these particular Jacquard and , and that 's what the continentals were good at , it , cos they look , I mean they were far more , we 're so conservative in this country , little better now obviously we do more nowad you know we 're talking about just after the war the Italians and the French were into colour , not garish colour , subtle lovely colours .
18 Yeah but and , you know we 're talking
19 I found it difficult to keep going because of the hypothetical situation you know we were talking it about it early
20 Right , now I 'm trying to say to you is , that if , if you write , you write all these things down , you 'll find that one thing wo n't react with another , you know we were talking about interacting
21 You know we was talking about ?
22 Remember we 're talking about people who are eighty or ninety moving a bit .
23 ‘ Broadly speaking we 're talking knighthoods , OBE 's and MBE 's .
24 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 .
25 I suppose we 're talking non-league here .
26 The silence seemed to go on interminably , before either Mr Smith or Mr Jones found it in him to mutter : ‘ I suppose we were talking a little out of turn there .
27 So yeah we 're talking we 're talking in terms of starting we 're talking about next week or the week after .
28 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 .
29 Do n't forget we 're talking about changing people , somebody 's job description to include a Can you ?
30 C. I thought we were talking about the H-bomb .
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