Example sentences of "[indef pn] [be] talking about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone was talking about the accident last night in the saloon — word soon gets round on the Island . |
| 2 | Somebody was talking about that . |
| 3 | as a whole one is talking about something like 70 million small mammals and birds killed by domestic cats every year . |
| 4 | But these ‘ less-eligibility ’ arguments are surely at their weakest when applied to food , and virtually untenable when one is talking about people incarcerated for fourteen years or more . |
| 5 | Arguments about absenteeism ( not borne out incidentally by the surviving wage-books ) are hardly relevant when one is talking about piece-work in large firms . |
| 6 | To some extent , it is also intuitively satisfying to suggest that what one is talking about always comes before what one has to say about it . |
| 7 | Worst of all , what if my mind goes completely blank with panic and I ca n't even remember who I am , never mind who 's coming on next and what the hell this one is talking about now ? |
| 8 | If one is talking about second adult rebates , of course it is true that we need to try to simplify the proposals , to overcome the administrative difficulties brought to our attention by local authority associations . |
| 9 | If one adds that delay to the average of about three months before the first visit is made , one is talking about a possible delay of one year and three months before the application starts to receive the attention that is required before it can proceed . |
| 10 | It is easy enough to hold an opinion , but hard work to actually know what one is talking about . |
| 11 | I mean if one was talking about great tits in China , you 'd have to say there are two kinds of great tits . |
| 12 | Oh they put it out in to see if anybody 's talking about him do they ? |
| 13 | Did n't know what anybody was talking about ! |
| 14 | Miss Taylor , I think everybody is talking about your appearance but I think you 're one of the greatest actresses in the world and I 've enjoyed a lot of your films . |
| 15 | Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera , the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House . |
| 16 | ‘ We have 1,500 people working for us in this Opera House , and everybody is talking about the ghost . |
| 17 | EVERYBODY is talking about The People-ClubCall 's great British Star of Sport 1992 merit awards . |
| 18 | as if every , she thinks everybody is talking about her . |
| 19 | ‘ By the time the words get from her brain to her mouth everybody 's talking about something different . ’ |
| 20 | Lisa Philips , a curator who helped mount the trendy Biennials of the 1980s , decried ‘ Eighties-bashing ’ while announcing the trend of the '90s : ‘ Today everybody 's talking about gender , identity and power the way they talked about the grid in the late Sixties and early Seventies ’ . |
| 21 | everybody 's talking about me . |
| 22 | He thinks everybody 's talking about him . |
| 23 | Everybody 's talking about it . |
| 24 | ‘ Everybody 's talking about the two forwards , but you can have the best forwards in the world and there 's still no guarantee they will score , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Well , we want to see our members , the U K employees , having the same opportunity to join the project on the same terms as people from the rest of Europe and that 's very appropriate this time when everybody 's talking about Europe , we think . |
| 26 | Everybody was talking about the skinny blond guy he lived with . |
| 27 | Equally naturally , by lunch break everybody was talking about it . |
| 28 | Everybody was talking about Christopher Columbus in 1992 , 500 years after his epic voyages . |
| 29 | Chatterton pulled their legs slightly and said they had better be careful not to get on the wrong side of you again and Glastonbury did n't know what the hell anyone was talking about . |
| 30 | Hitchcock added : ‘ Now we 're fourth in the League , everyone 's talking about us winning something , especially in the cups . |