Example sentences of "he [is] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within moments , he is talking about Brecht 's THREEPENNY OPERA pointing out how Brecht invented an abstract London , not in order to escape from the reality of the city , but to create a generalized framework which could be relevant to audiences in many different places . |
| 2 | It looks back to Lanman as well as to Eliot 's other Sanskrit teacher , the ex-anthropologist , Woods , who had written that to the Hindu , ‘ Logically and temporally , the word seems to precede its idea and its meaning : a man thinks , the Hindu would say , because he is talking . |
| 3 | It was my philosophy professor , a native of the Antilles , who recalled the fact to me one day : ‘ Whenever you hear anyone abuse the Jews , pay attention because he is talking about you ’ . |
| 4 | Mr Solarz 's knack for generating publicity , his network of contacts in Asia , his influence with the administration and his reputation for knowing what he is talking about — rare enough among congressmen who spout on foreign affairs — give him clout . |
| 5 | More than any of the other major characters in the great story from Genesis to Kings Moses has a tendency to know what he is talking about . |
| 6 | The storyteller knows what he is talking about . |
| 7 | Another tribute came from an independent source , and a man who knows what he is talking about . |
| 8 | He seems sensible and rather nice and he knows what he is talking about . |
| 9 | He is a veteran interviewee , yet somehow gives the impression that he is talking from the heart . |
| 10 | The board master performs this service on a voluntary basis and the prerequisite of being board master is knowing the fishing thoroughly ; because he has to tell new guests where to go , how to get there , which path to take , which bog to avoid , where not to fall in — so he really must know what he is talking about . |
| 11 | The author insists at several points that he is talking about both basic and applied research , although he would exclude technology . |
| 12 | And he is talking of fact , not I fiction . ) |
| 13 | I would like to point out that when your Alexander teacher talks about ‘ unreliable feelings ’ he is talking about sensory feelings and not emotions or intuition ( a point that has confused many people in the past ) . |
| 14 | At first you might find it difficult to understand what he is talking about , because most of us are not even aware that these tensions exist . |
| 15 | He is talking about senior managers at Thames Water . |
| 16 | Do n't pass between the speechreader and the person he is talking with ; go round them unobtrusively so that you do not break eye contact . |
| 17 | Any evidence , whether actual or a product of your subconscious , comes from you yourself and is not simply given to you by another person who might or might not know what he is talking about . |
| 18 | He is talking about social ecology on Tuesday 12 May at Lady Mitchell Hall , Sidgwick Avenue , Cambridge ; on 14 May at Bristol University Students ' Union in Queens Road ; on Monday 18 May at the Beckett Lecture Theatre of Leeds University in Woodhouse Lane ; and on Thursday 21 May at St James ' Church , Piccadilly , in London . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't know what he is talking about . |
| 20 | He flirts , he touches , he gazes deep into the eyes of the person he is talking to , no one is immune to his immense charm . |
| 21 | He is talking directly to us and we do feel sick . |
| 22 | Love him or loathe him , at least he knows what he is talking about . |
| 23 | On that video he is talking with diarrhoea in his mouth . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Every club years ago had a tough-tackling defender in their side but they did n't resort to the tactics he is talking about . |
| 25 | Managing director David Crisp says that he is talking to three potential manufacturers at the moment , one of which is presumably Amstrad . |
| 26 | But instead he is talking about keeping up research and development on space-based systems — which is exactly what was being done before . |
| 27 | Moreover , the word ‘ notion ’ is not meant to suggest that he is talking of an idea in our minds ; he is concerned rather with that actual feature of good things which is picked out by the word ‘ good ’ . |
| 28 | He is talking about his own childhood ( when we were children ) in Stornoway ( here ) . |
| 29 | Mostly he is talking about a period before the war but he also refers to the uprising against the Germans in 1912 , and some events immediately after the last war , and to a man he describes as his brother . |
| 30 | The lack of analysis of specific songs in Adorno 's writings means that it is impossible to know whether he is talking about real pieces or , more likely , ideal types . |