Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [be] [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's just the kind I was talking about , ’ said Garvey over his shoulder . |
| 2 | That 's Royal Scotsman I 'm talking about . |
| 3 | Anyway , just at present I 'm thinking about disembodied laughter . ’ |
| 4 | Yeah , predicted grade card I 'm talking about oh where is , did you say ten o'clock ? |
| 5 | I 'll put it in in Westbury Auction I was thinking about to putting two eight . |
| 6 | Mick Bloor 's qualitative work on adenotonsillectomy is a perfect example of the kind of study I 'm talking about . |
| 7 | The Environment Committee I was talking about this proposal at this meeting . |
| 8 | Oh yes , well I , this is a Committee I 'm talking about , not , not just myself , the whole Committee . |
| 9 | Because there was n't the same amount of work , this is just after the war I 'm talking about , and there was n't so many going then . |
| 10 | Yeah although it did n't , it did n't I w I was n't too concerned about it , I thought well you know I 'm resting er and er I 'm the sort of person who only needs about six hours , if I get six hours I 'm okay erm , you know , on a regular basis I 'm talking about . |
| 11 | There is a sense in which after much complex art , much elaborate art , much sermonizing art of the sort I was talking about earlier , people sometimes get the urge to simplify things down and in a sense they say let's go back to the five finger exercise , let's see what a note on the piano sounds like instead of playing , you know , Chopin or Stravinsky all the time , let's remind ourselves what the actual note sounds like , or two notes together , or one note and then a gap and then another note , and you suddenly become aware of the richness , in a sense in these very simple elements . |
| 12 | Importantly for the point I am making about the study of television genre , Todorov closes his summary of propositions thus : |
| 13 | In the meantime I merely want to emphasise the point I was making about change . |
| 14 | But she undercuts this realization with footnotes which describe similarities , but no differences , in the articulation of gender in homosexual relationships ; and which parallel the unconscious splits generated by discourses of gender , with those generated by racist discourses : ‘ When I made generalisations about women ( almost always derogatory ) , I did not include myself in the group I was talking about … . |
| 15 | But this contact I am talking about is a terrifying , although of course in a way wonderful , but also terrifying , form of … er … contact . ’ |
| 16 | When we got to within quarter of an hour q sorry quarter of a mile of the the actual village itself , and remember it 's quarter of a mile I 'm talking about not ten yards fifteen yards away , we saw a railway embankment in front of us . |
| 17 | They did n't like the stuff I was writing about Vietnam and Fancher and Wolf had always sort of suffered me . |
| 18 | But what if the person I 'm talking about I 'm not talking about |
| 19 | It was tomorrow night I was talking about . |
| 20 | And it is n't only last night I 'm talking about . |
| 21 | This month I 'm writing about another of the smaller accessories for your knitting machine , the rib transfer carriage ( RT1 ) . |
| 22 | This month I 'm writing about the SC3 automatic linker . |
| 23 | This month I 'm writing about tuck and slip stitch . |
| 24 | Now , you 'll recall that last week I was talking about Darwin 's basic concept and I tried to explain it to you and to illustrate it to you . |
| 25 | , it 's not English subject area I 'm talking about . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's not the penny I 'm bothered about , ’ he mumbled almost to himself , gazing into the fire . |
| 27 | The man I am talking about got up slowly . |
| 28 | But it was the Hunter man I was talking about . ’ |
| 29 | You know I mean this has , this has been used accused Saddam Hussein has er is a , is a supporter of er the coup , but er , the real implication I am talking about is the problem . |
| 30 | You have probably seen the style I am talking about . |