Example sentences of "one [be] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | as a whole one is talking about something like 70 million small mammals and birds killed by domestic cats every year . |
| 2 | Receiving and writing messages from the spirit world ( or the subconscious , depending on which occultist one is talking to ) . |
| 3 | The fact that there is no sound or that no one is talking sometimes needs indicating . |
| 4 | But these ‘ less-eligibility ’ arguments are surely at their weakest when applied to food , and virtually untenable when one is talking about people incarcerated for fourteen years or more . |
| 5 | Arguments about absenteeism ( not borne out incidentally by the surviving wage-books ) are hardly relevant when one is talking about piece-work in large firms . |
| 6 | There are particular signals which enable speakers to get into — and to get out of — conversations , to pass the turn to somebody else , varying according to whom one is talking to and in what circumstances . |
| 7 | To some extent , it is also intuitively satisfying to suggest that what one is talking about always comes before what one has to say about it . |
| 8 | She had that feeling of insult often felt at a party when the person one is talking to focuses his gaze on people round about all the time , searching for someone more interesting , powerful or sexy to talk to . |
| 9 | Worst of all , what if my mind goes completely blank with panic and I ca n't even remember who I am , never mind who 's coming on next and what the hell this one is talking about now ? |
| 10 | If one is talking about second adult rebates , of course it is true that we need to try to simplify the proposals , to overcome the administrative difficulties brought to our attention by local authority associations . |
| 11 | If one adds that delay to the average of about three months before the first visit is made , one is talking about a possible delay of one year and three months before the application starts to receive the attention that is required before it can proceed . |
| 12 | It is easy enough to hold an opinion , but hard work to actually know what one is talking about . |
| 13 | One 's for listening and one 's talking into . |
| 14 | The worst thing of all was that no one was talking . |
| 15 | One was talking in Arabic . |
| 16 | I mean if one was talking about great tits in China , you 'd have to say there are two kinds of great tits . |