Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [be] talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harley MS 6579 and marked by italics : Or further , in chapter forty-six , where Hilton is talking about the word " Iesu " as a means of focusing all the inheritance of life that the recluse desires , he says : These insertions do not add anything new , they simply expand in a particular way what has been said and they are not absolutely consistent in all the manuscripts in which they appear . |
| 2 | Compare the level of formality in the above dialogue with that in the following extract from another dialogue where Charles is talking to his father , who happens to be the Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard : |
| 3 | I think for the male student who is subject to sexual harassment , or who gets the sort of inappropriate approaches that Marianne is talking about , that is unusual , it 's out of step with the way in which he perceives himself , and his sense of what he is and who he is in the world . |
| 4 | It is important to notice here that Freud is talking about a part of the ego as being built up from the social and cultural surroundings , but that the whole ego is not built up in this way . |
| 5 | I mean why do people have to kind of , if , if , if we accept for a minute that there 's something in this analogy , this model that Freud is talking about , why do people have this compulsive need to repeat like this , why do they have to repeat history ? |
| 6 | Yes now what I meant was that , that erm in a group like this , the the th th the leader or the leadership role may be relatively minimal and the individualism of the members may be relevant , but I hope it was cos I I think it 's a mistake for class in groups and that so one would hope in this kind of group , the individual variation would be so important that these kind of group phenomena that Freud is talking about in this book but clearly in other groups they 're they 're more important , partly because you can never organize a group by kind of having a meeting with everybody . |
| 7 | ‘ I should add that Frank was talking about America . |
| 8 | Of course drugs is , is one of the wonderful examples that the very thing that Katherine was talking about , something that was n't there in the beginning and that has been produced by modern technology and is now a big problem , but is not a problem to Australian Aborigines because they do n't have any drugs er to speak of , of course now they do and alcohol is a terrible problem with Australian Aborigines I talked to David McKnight about it . |
| 9 | I 've got a bit of a conflict of interest here straightaway because the actual case that Roy is talking about is actually my brother and I at this moment have been complaining to the Lloyds Policy Unit in respect of erm this particular policy , because the company that was actually trading went into liquidation . |
| 10 | And all of that made the conversation , th the fact that Jesus was talking with this woman , a very improper thing nineteen hundred years ago ! |
| 11 | That 's what I 'm saying , they need , they need just a little , in fact we do here you could argue , er , I feel that all the elements there are of a turning into something a bit ugly , I think , I think they were very quick to drop those statues down , now I know , I know the fellow who in , who set up the K G B could have been the most popular bloke in the Soviet Union , but nonetheless , er he was down within a day , I hear this morning that Yeltsin 's talking about border changes and quite frankly they 're moving too quick and Gorbachev at least was providing a bit of restraint , and I think it , they want to think in terms of decade . |
| 12 | What 's good about the debating is that people are talking about the rights and wrongs of bolting as a practice — and that has to be welcomed . |
| 13 | Then the magical incantation ‘ Objective 1 ’ had sent imaginations spiralling , to the extent that people were talking about causeways between Harris and Uist , universities , harbours , bridges , ferries and swimming pools . |
| 14 | Seeing that George was talking to one of the shepherds , he came forward to join them . |
| 15 | Carolyn sat rigidly still , appalled that Clare was talking about this in front of the others . |
| 16 | It 's not so long ago that Kilmarnock were talking about wanting to go up as champions and look at them now . |
| 17 | But when he turned to look , she was gone and Marcus was talking to someone else . |
| 18 | A natural interpretation ( by an observer or analyst ) of this deictic set-up is that A and B are talking on the telephone . |
| 19 | Y You and Deborah were talking about Dan and Honey yesterday were n't you ? |
| 20 | Bigwig and Silver were talking with Buck horn under an overhanging broom . |
| 21 | I was trying to solve the mystery of that secret ‘ consignment ’ you and Salvo were talking about ! ’ |
| 22 | I think it 's Henry IV Part 1 , where Hotspur and Glendower are talking about magic . ) |
| 23 | Here , then , the discussion will simply be an elaboration of what Sperber and Wilson are talking about in the very text I have cited . |
| 24 | During these deliberations , Loretta was aware that Bridget and Geoffrey were talking in low voices . |
| 25 | Dieter was deep in conversation with Eric and Daphne , and Rose was talking to Janey and Sue . |
| 26 | When we were in the meadow opposite the Grotto and Father was talking about Bernadette I felt as though I could see her . |
| 27 | Yeah I agree with that , if you know somebody well , especially if you know somebody well and if you work with people and you communicate with people you build up trust , and if the communication 's there and people are talking to each other and passing on information , information 's going round and round trust 'll be there , the only time trust disappears is when somebody feels somebody 's keeping something back . |
| 28 | One day I was in the wheelchair and people were talking to John and Jo but ignoring me . |
| 29 | The ‘ White Rose ’ itself evidently gave rise to rumours , widely circulating in Bavaria and in many other parts of Germany ‘ about large demonstrations of Munich students ’ , unrest , and even revolutionary feeling in Munich , ‘ and people were talking about graffiti and fly-leaf propaganda with a Marxist content on public buildings in Berlin and in other cities ’ . |
| 30 | The words slipped pell-mell into one another , as if Marek were talking in his sleep . |