Example sentences of "[pers pn] be talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It were bad where erm Have I been talking in that thing all time ? |
| 2 | I there is a small difference of course , the C E C did say it , but there is dif different negotiating procedures as you 're , you are aware but Mike and I are talking about that and I 'm sure we can overcome it . |
| 3 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 4 | ‘ I think I am talking for us all when I say that we will gladly work for nothing , just until matters improve , we have all been so happy here at Summer Lodge and each and every one of us would like to stay with you wherever you go . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I am talking of people of our calibre ; two or three men , a couple of hundred staff , good solid firms that normally do n't go bankrupt … |
| 6 | What I am talking of is , I suppose , the sort of progeny one might expect from a mating between the Arkleton Trust and the government-sponsored Plockton seminar |
| 7 | That is to say , I am talking of the likes of Mr Marshall of Charleville House , or Mr Lane of Bridewood . |
| 8 | Fanon makes a parallel point as regards racism , at the beginning of Black Skins , White Masks , where he states : ‘ I am talking of millions of people who have been skilfully injected with fear , inferiority complexes , trepidation , servility , despair , abasement ’ ( Fanon , 1968 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ And he went to the degree of saying , when I pressed him , how are we going to stay in this business ; he said , Albert , for all I know right now when I am talking to you , we could be finished with the business ; I do n't know . ’ |
| 10 | Barbel fishing in the early days , and I am talking to more than a hundred years ago , was very popular amongst the gentry , who used to employ a man to bait a swim with thousands of lobworms over a period of days , sometimes weeks . |
| 11 | ‘ I am talking to you . ’ |
| 12 | CLINT , POPPIE , I AM TALKING TO YOU ! |
| 13 | An when I am talking to meself in poetry I talk , |
| 14 | Here I am talking to you about myself — a thing I assure you I very very rarely do — while you are shrinking from making the slightest personal communication to me . |
| 15 | My order will not succeed as an order unless the person I am talking to is obliged to clean their boots ( condition 3 ) , and I have the right and the power to make them do so ( condition 4 ) . |
| 16 | I am talking to a man who has seen things I can only imagine . |
| 17 | After half an hour 's dedicated sales pitch , I find I am talking to a devoted collector of Hummel figurines . |
| 18 | Whether I am talking to the residents of Moss Side in Manchester , or Scotswood in Newcastle , I am left in no doubt that they dislike their local councillors and councils as much as they dislike the Government . |
| 19 | Well I would expect that the Prime Minister would , I think this nonsense that is behind all this is that because I am talking to Gerry Adams , they do n't want to be seen to be talking to me because it looks this fingerprint argument |
| 20 | I am talking to Kathleen , not you ! |
| 21 | Now I am talking to Hello . |
| 22 | Erm , current speaker will next speaker by name , so when I speak to you and I call your name , you know that I am talking to you . |
| 23 | I am talking about phrases which speak to the country by capturing its mood or its hopes . |
| 24 | ‘ But what I am talking about , because it is my business , is mainstream commercial cinema and I do maintain that mainstream cinema should be looking towards its audience . |
| 25 | I am talking about middle-class , well-to-do men : traders , businessmen … bankers like him ! ’ |
| 26 | But I am talking about a woman 's rights . |
| 27 | ‘ Clearly as I am talking about broadening an audience , I need to talk about broadening the appeal of exhibitions . ’ |
| 28 | I know what I am talking about . |
| 29 | I am not talking about hunting being given the name of culling , I am talking about situations where culling does really look to be the only way to save the vegetation . |
| 30 | ‘ You know what I am talking about , of course ? ’ |