Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [be] talk " in BNC.
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1 | ’ Someone in a bar was talking about Ardakke in connection with Gharr the Gherpotean ’ . |
2 | When I returned to the drawing room , a clergyman was talking about the hardships being suffered by children in Berlin . |
3 | That is , attempting to provide an account of what a person is talking about is always built on an assumption that we know why that person says what he says . |
4 | Rule of Life No. 37 : When a policeman 's talking , shut up . |
5 | His no-good slob of a kid was talking of having forty thousand dollars . |
6 | ‘ Action ’ , in the sense used in this chapter , is what a geneticist is talking about when he mentions the ‘ phenotypic effect ’ of a gene . |
7 | Yet our interpretation of what a speaker is talking about is inevitably based on how he structures what he is saying . |
8 | Behind this question seems to be the idea that to talk of the ‘ meaning ’ of a word is to talk of some thing — either some thing in the world , which the word stands for , or some thing in the mind of the person who utters the word and in the mind of the person who hears it . |
9 | But the idea that to talk of the ‘ meaning ’ of a word is to talk of some thing does not seem to apply to the use we have been considering of the word ‘ here ’ . |
10 | Mike , a Cambridge undergraduate who is working on a kibbutz is talking to the Jewish girl Gila and explaining why he left university to end up in Israel . |
11 | A comrade is talking to you one moment and is gone the next , either blasted beyond recognition or seriously wounded . |
12 | In the first , a canvasser is talking to a farmer 's wife . |
13 | If you feel a client is talking crudely , you hake not yet come to terms with your own feeling that there is something crude about sex . |