Example sentences of "and i be [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally this depends on the type of area and I am talking about hilly rural areas like this one . |
| 2 | ‘ This team has the talent to win trophies and I am talking about the championship as well as one-day competitions ’ . |
| 3 | I there is a small difference of course , the C E C did say it , but there is dif different negotiating procedures as you 're , you are aware but Mike and I are talking about that and I 'm sure we can overcome it . |
| 4 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 5 | er that 's , and I and I 'm thinking about the response to the Falklands and the Gulf . |
| 6 | One of the things I was asked to write about this week I think was a radio , to , to write about er what I felt about radios , you know , er , erm , so anything could be thrown at you , and obviously I have my areas that I particularly interested in and I think sometimes I get a bit complacement and I 'm writing about a , I find particularly interested in and a bit lazy , so its quite good to be stretched . |
| 7 | Arnold Wesker 's famous trilogy of plays Chicken Soup with Barley , Roots and I 'm Talking About Jerusalem was also performed at the Royal Court . |
| 8 | 1960 The Wesker Trilogy , The Kitchen , Chicken Soup and I 'm Talking About Jerusalem open to great acclaim at the Royal Court . |
| 9 | Of course they 're rock and pop now , I suppose , … and I 'm talking about from 1st years onwards . |
| 10 | But what we do , because we are the people we are , , and er , it happens every time , we 've got salesmen , and I 'm talking about salesmen , who will get over to see somebody and get something signed up , they called you or whatever it was , |
| 11 | Yeah well you 're talking about four and I 'm talking about six bungalows . |
| 12 | I 'm talking about cord and five lines here for the minute aye and I 'm talking about bringing in talking about bringing in four or five lines down there , right ? |
| 13 | They did n't have any control , certainly , and not even very much knowledge as to how the commodity — and I 'm talking about cotton , rubber , tea , copper , bauxite , coco , sugar , coffee and so on — what happened to it when it enters the market of a developed country . |
| 14 | and er when he got there Je , er er erm , Julian and I were loading about a ton of turf into my van and I was gon na take it to Caffer Cliss but he said for fifteen quid I 'll take that , I 'll take that away for you . |
| 15 | Yeah , the sort of thing Lucy and I were talking about earlier is , it was just before I went on holiday so my memory is kind of hazy , it 's one where I was going to see the Arts Council and see if they were interested in the idea if they work |
| 16 | Like a , thousands more , and another thing we knew we we very often , my wife and I were talking about it only the other day , there was an old saying that er er Percy White 's out of prison . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , so you were unable to hear what your mother and I were talking about ? ’ she asked naughtily . |
| 18 | Molly , Edith ( Harlow ) and I were talking about the Medauring in Germany started by Sofie Trappe , and I said we ought to form a group in England — Molly 's reaction was ‘ that 's fine Andy so long as I have nothing to do with the organisation ’ … so that year we formed the Studio Club . |
| 19 | We we we also Sally and I were talking about this last week , we said often you know you get you can get bankrupt stock |
| 20 | Do you know when I went out to the maths thing I was waiting for , I was there and I was heard about these forgotten a calculator ! |
| 21 | I do , I like , do you think I could have a copy of anything you 've got to date because lying in my desk this morning is something I have to prepare a briefing note for my chairman and I was thinking about that recent one , but I could n't put my hand on it Robert , absolutely updated on exactly where we are . |
| 22 | I was thinking about Nour and Marie Claire , and I was thinking about Syl and Mrs Monro . |
| 23 | ‘ But then one night , under the covers — I was just getting older , I guess , but anyway — I was sort of reviewing the day , and I was thinking about school , and what we 'd learned , and we 'd been doing the Second World War , and I had n't liked the sound of this Hitler guy at all ; and I 'd asked dad , just to double-check , and — ’ |
| 24 | And I was reading about the conditions . |
| 25 | And I was asked about my interests , and naturally I began to talk about politics . |
| 26 | My marriage failed and I was doing about one job every six months — I was on the fringe of things . |
| 27 | ‘ Anyway , that night they put a night-light in my room , in case I had nightmares , but the shadows were even worse than the darkness , and so I just lay there , under the covers , quivering with fear thanks to these damn dragons , and I wished Ken was back from University because sometimes I was allowed to sleep in his room , and I wished I was allowed a torch in my room , but I was n't , and I was wondering about crying really loudly , because that would bring mum and dad in to see me , but then what did I say was wrong ? |
| 28 | We talking about this and I was saying about coming from construction I says I 've says I 've to go up the cut like |
| 29 | And I , and Ma , and I was saying about Ma , you know , Ma , happened to say Madge , you know , and er er , you know we said that th , that I were n't going out . |
| 30 | Bill : I was wondering recently what effect the AIDS hysteria has had outside the gay movement and I was talking about it a bit in a pub I use down in Sussex . |