Example sentences of "[noun sg] i was talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's just the kind I was talking about , ’ said Garvey over his shoulder . |
| 2 | The Environment Committee I was talking about this proposal at this meeting . |
| 3 | There is a sense in which after much complex art , much elaborate art , much sermonizing art of the sort I was talking about earlier , people sometimes get the urge to simplify things down and in a sense they say let's go back to the five finger exercise , let's see what a note on the piano sounds like instead of playing , you know , Chopin or Stravinsky all the time , let's remind ourselves what the actual note sounds like , or two notes together , or one note and then a gap and then another note , and you suddenly become aware of the richness , in a sense in these very simple elements . |
| 4 | But she undercuts this realization with footnotes which describe similarities , but no differences , in the articulation of gender in homosexual relationships ; and which parallel the unconscious splits generated by discourses of gender , with those generated by racist discourses : ‘ When I made generalisations about women ( almost always derogatory ) , I did not include myself in the group I was talking about … . |
| 5 | It was tomorrow night I was talking about . |
| 6 | Now , you 'll recall that last week I was talking about Darwin 's basic concept and I tried to explain it to you and to illustrate it to you . |
| 7 | ‘ It was the dog I was talking to ! ’ |
| 8 | But it was the Hunter man I was talking about . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Do you remember the man I was talking to in the club ? |
| 10 | On the twenty seven part-time stations where the people are not on the station , they 're at home , they 're at work or elsewhere , each one carries a little alerter with them , erm tiny little gadget in his pocket , and by means of this erm radio communication I was talking about earlier , by pressing the right button for the appropriate station , er er it triggers off these alerters and the men respond to that call , come to the fire station , where the telephone is live waiting for them and the message is passed on that way . |
| 11 | ‘ The other thing , ’ Thomas said , ‘ the reason I was talking to George Roxborough — well , he called me . |
| 12 | And a new doctor I was talking to , I says , three went in , I says , Hope they 're all going into , doctor . |
| 13 | The night after the broadcast I was talking with an African nationalist in the Harare township . |
| 14 | And all the time I was talking I rolled my swabs back and forth over the frozen Thames . |
| 15 | At the time I was talking to the magistrate I had no doubt at all that the Duke of Marlborough would give evidence for me , if necessary . |
| 16 | Erm the reason I 'm asking is because I suspect it would have been greater at the time I was talking about all the ago though . |
| 17 | You mentioned Christopher , what er the last time it 's , I 'm going back a little while , the last time I was talking with Janet he , she was a bit unhappy , I think he was in er a teaching practice at the time and she was wondering how he was going to go on . |
| 18 | Back at home office in Cleveland , I am trying to remember all those three-hour lunches with five courses and two bottles of wine and what on earth I was talking about . |