Example sentences of "i be talk about " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I am talking about phrases which speak to the country by capturing its mood or its hopes . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | I am talking about middle-class , well-to-do men : traders , businessmen … bankers like him ! ’ |
| 6 | But I am talking about a woman 's rights . |
| 7 | ‘ Clearly as I am talking about broadening an audience , I need to talk about broadening the appeal of exhibitions . ’ |
| 8 | I know what I am talking about . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ You know what I am talking about , of course ? ’ |
| 11 | The words probably , likely and unlikely litter the text , even when I am talking about what is widely regarded as fact . |
| 12 | What I am talking about are the contexts in which people have sexual relationships . |
| 13 | ‘ I know what I am talking about . |
| 14 | If I meet my young son from school , laughing with his friends and waving to me and the dog , who wags its tail and barks in return , should I be supposed not to know what I am talking about if I pronounce them both to be conscious ? |
| 15 | Some , at least , of this confusion and inconsistency arise out of misunderstanding as to what is meant by Wages for Housework , so before proceeding any further I propose to change the term in order to indicate ( a ) that I am not spokeswoman for , nor even in complete agreement with , the campaign of that name ; ( b ) that I do not propose to be sidetracked into an interesting discussion of the precise scientific definition of ‘ wage ’ ; what I am talking about is cash , money , pound notes , that to which a housewife is not entitled , that to which she should be ; and ( c ) that there is housework and housework . |
| 16 | The charitable organisation , the trust I am talking about happens to have four Eastern Board managers running the show . |
| 17 | You know what I am talking about . ’ |
| 18 | I have been a supporter of this club since before the war , so I know what I am talking about . |
| 19 | Honestly , Les , this team is the biggest load of rubbish we have had here since I 've been a supporter and I started before the war , so I know what I am talking about . |
| 20 | Syntactic behaviour and contrastiveness aside , it is tempting to interpret a Chinese-style topic in the same way as theme , that is , as meaning something like ‘ This is my starting point ; this is what I am talking about . ’ |
| 21 | The man I am talking about got up slowly . |
| 22 | I am talking about science . ’ |
| 23 | Mr. Wilson : I am grateful for your guidance , Mr. Deputy Speaker , but I assure you that I am talking about the disabled only in terms of the general need for consumer protection , which is encompassed in new clause S. |
| 24 | Now what I am talking about is a very simple concept illustrated in figure 3 . |
| 25 | The differences in contents in different individuals come about in the following manner , and here I must stress that I am talking about sexually reproducing species such as our own . |
| 26 | You and your family are the friends that I am talking about . ’ |
| 27 | I am talking about the famous House of Ormstein , Kings of Bohemia . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I am talking about your lateness for the ‘ half ’ . ’ |
| 29 | As some of his remarks in the Criterion commentaries made clear , he was not hostile to the idea of Empire , ‘ whatever the Daily Express may say ’ ; and if this should rouse the indignation of anti-imperialists , it should be realized that I am talking about a bygone era , since which the world-scene has been transformed , and the term colonialism is now employed usually in the service of invective . |
| 30 | I am talking about during the First World War , you see . |