Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [be] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | But this girl was talking this is a few years back now . |
| 3 | That will mean the sort of support for groups that this campaign is talking about . |
| 4 | " 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 . |
| 5 | No , this Derek 's talking about your man being |
| 6 | I mean a few people are talking , how many of you agree with that ? |
| 7 | Few people were talking about Robert 's paintings . |
| 8 | Few people were talking and the silence of night cast its pall over the city . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | No one this time was talking about the next fight . |
| 12 | As he said this , he noticed that Cowslip had joined them and that Strawberry was talking to him quietly . |
| 13 | But I do know what these designers are talking about and it 's light years away from the ever-so-respectable , traditional French and Italian fashion design . |
| 14 | To count such comments as these as indicative of satisfaction and dissatisfaction with housework may perhaps be criticized on the grounds that what these women are talking about is not the housework situation , but marriage . |
| 15 | Even my most basic pre-set question ( ’ How many people are talking ? ' ) proved to be over their heads , so I rewound the tape and tried again . |
| 16 | Oh it 's not a con consistent many people are talking . |
| 17 | Well the Government 's paper recognizes the lack of facilities which those youngsters were talking about and the link with late night violence . |
| 18 | I mean the foyer when you come in to the building when the place was refurbished that was that we got the consultant 's to look at the into the foyer and what you see as you come into the building is the recommendations of those consultants were talking about having a red foyer making it inviting and friendly that was their recommendation which was adopted . |
| 19 | IBM was perceived as the winner , just as today , even the things it does right are in trouble because IBM is perceived as the industry 's most emphatic loser , and more and more people are talking seriously about the company being in danger of going the same way as Prime Computer Inc , Wang Laboratories Inc and Control Data Corp . |
| 20 | And I 'm disappointed that councillor is talking about a matter of years before we get something done about this . |
| 21 | " That kid 's talking through her umbrella , sir . |
| 22 | There is , then , a discrepancy between what each participant is talking about , within the topic framework . |
| 23 | If a cat enters a room where several people are talking , it is very likely to make for the one person there who has an abnormal fear of felines . |
| 24 | As a result , most firms are talking about paying higher dividends . |