Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [be] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My dear sister was talking about you only today at tea . |
| 2 | You know in a way South Wales is paying back the debt that we pa w w we paid them in their strike you know I mean and That 's communities helping communities and if really this management is talking about er the fact that they resent families not having to go without over Christmas and this sort of thing you know I mean where are their values you know it 's difficult to understand is n't it ? |
| 3 | But this girl was talking this is a few years back now . |
| 4 | That will mean the sort of support for groups that this campaign is talking about . |
| 5 | Dyson tried over inside his head : ‘ It 's funny to think that only this morning poor old Eddy was talking about Stanley Cunningham 's funeral … |
| 6 | Alarmed by the case , foreign governments are talking of retaliation . |
| 7 | " Why , as a matter of interest , " said Martin , calmly , as though the discussion up to this point had been quite unreliable , " did you have so many children , Candida ? " and Mrs Denham , strangely , took off her glasses , and frowned , and began to speak as though she had indeed up to this point been talking nonsense . |
| 8 | I believe that the Hon. Gentleman is talking about what might have been within the scope of new clause 6 had Mr. [ Mr. Deputy Speaker ] |
| 9 | The right hon. Gentleman is talking nonsense on stilts , and he knows it . |
| 10 | The hon. Gentleman is talking absolute nonsense , as will be confirmed when my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister makes his statement to the House later this afternoon . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman is talking nonsense and yet again trying to mislead the public on the achievements of hospital trusts . |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman is talking a lot of nonsense . |
| 13 | I have to say that I have no idea what the hon. Gentleman is talking about . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman is talking characteristic nonsense . |
| 15 | As the right hon. Gentleman is talking about matters in which there may be joint agreement , and as he has visited Langbaurgh and Hemsworth in recent days , will he comment on the fact that both the Labour party candidates for those constituencies have invested in newly privatised industries ? |
| 16 | The hon. Gentleman is talking about transaction costs . |
| 17 | The hon. Gentleman is talking about the financing of sport . |
| 18 | I do not know what the hon. Gentleman is talking about . |
| 19 | We are providing ample Committee time for consideration of evidence of the type about which the hon. Gentleman is talking . |
| 20 | No , this Derek 's talking about your man being |
| 21 | I mean a few people are talking , how many of you agree with that ? |
| 22 | Few people were talking about Robert 's paintings . |
| 23 | Few people were talking and the silence of night cast its pall over the city . |
| 24 | Thus one account of what this speaker is talking about would contain the following elements : a joke — the taw — smoke — into houses — out of houses — people get trolley — the use of the trolley . |
| 25 | However , even if we take that summarising phrase as one possible expression of the topic of speaker R 's lengthy contribution , we have surely not adequately characterised what this speaker was talking about . |
| 26 | She would also need money — and the stability the old man was talking about . |
| 27 | At the next table a German couple were talking loudly and beyond them a middle-aged man on his own occupied a table for three . |
| 28 | No one this time was talking about the next fight . |
| 29 | As he said this , he noticed that Cowslip had joined them and that Strawberry was talking to him quietly . |
| 30 | What I think we 're saying on this side of the house , I do n't know if we 're saying it loud enough or it 's going to have effect , is that we must reduce the number of rules and regulations , you do n't actually need the body which the honourable member 's talking about . |