Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pron] [be] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so we 're talking not just about sacramental communion , but ecclesial communion . |
| 2 | Nathan turned the conversation to the bear trap in the museum , asking Odd-Knut if he had seen it , and soon we were talking about the killing of film on seal killing had been shown , an indictment of the Norwegian sealers . |
| 3 | And now everyone 's talking about it and it 's in one way it makes you gnash your teeth that that we 're not getting the credit yet |
| 4 | Ruefully , they add that the time is not ripe , and now they are talking only about aircraft . |
| 5 | And now they 're talking about freezing it ! |
| 6 | They said six hundred originally apparently but then and now they 're talking four hundred . |
| 7 | It was n't they took three hundred people the last time and now he 's talking about three hundred . |
| 8 | And now he was talking about mistletoe , and she did n't have to be very sophisticated or experienced to realise that he was angling quite unsubtly for a chance to kiss her . |
| 9 | He told me that he got an awful rocket from the Director of Accounts when he handed in the bill which worked out at several hundred pounds — and here we are talking of the year 1946 ! |
| 10 | ‘ If you were sitting where I 'm sitting , getting claims every day — and here I 'm talking about the firms at large , not Bill Morrison personally , you understand — you would n't want to know , would you ? ’ |
| 11 | I mean you asked me about formal education , and immediately we 're talking about nursery education . |
| 12 | I mean you asked me about formal education and immediately we 're talking about nursery education . |
| 13 | Erm and then he 's talking , he 's going on to education which er obviously at this time he would think is very important erm because that 's how he would start the revolution , you know , i in the first place . |
| 14 | And then you were talking about San Francisco earlier , now there are some churches in San Francisco that had Welsh slate and it must have gone by sea all the way |
| 15 | and then I 'm talking about right ? |
| 16 | She told me to hang on a bit , and then I was talking to this David Kendrew bloke — the one on the programme — the one Mum 's always on about . |
| 17 | And then I was talking to somebody about this and they and they burst out laughing and said well we 've got a friend , a male friend a mate of mine he said and he loves walking . |
| 18 | Erm and then it 's talking about standard variety that it 's usually the standard variety that 's accepted as the proper one when compared to other like smaller varieties erm dialects and stuff . |
| 19 | It 's a grey area , and everything that we do is totally ethical and professional , but obviously what were talking about is obtaining information . |
| 20 | The first time he had to include his brother 's name in an anecdote , his voice hardened a little , but soon he was talking much more easily , telling her of picnics and expeditions and even fights they had had with each other and with the Italian sons of their mother 's friends and relations . |
| 21 | The trip is taking its toll on Monie , but nevertheless we 're talking . |
| 22 | Talk to the next person but really you 're talking to there say and they do it back to you , but erm Oh so he did n't , he wo n't be going again then ? |
| 23 | erm they 're rather like sort of mutations are randomly related to the gene from which the mutation took place , but now we 're talking about a whole species suddenly arising with a new randomly arranged set of traits , and then the wholesale direction of evolution erm is determined by selection favouring some species in competition with other species . |
| 24 | GILLIAN said how could we separate the two , because where did grammar come from if not from grammarians , and almost all grammarians — probably every single one of them for all she knew — were men , so what did we expect ; but mainly she was talking common sense . |
| 25 | But here I am talking blissfully about myself in the old fashion ! |
| 26 | Pulled them up by their boot strings , was what he said , but then they were talking about the Treaty of Versailles and about war reparations being hard on Germany . ’ |
| 27 | Erm but we were encouraged of course for it to go er as your savings and er something I heard that , that may be interesting to you er and er he just said to me in this other club , but again we were talking about , I think we 'd talking politics then and we 're not supposed to do it was a church club . |
| 28 | But instead he is talking about keeping up research and development on space-based systems — which is exactly what was being done before . |
| 29 | ‘ But essentially we 're talking Fagg , are n't we ? ’ said Amiss . |
| 30 | Er , it was the best word that I felt I could use at this time , it may be that a , if a debate ensues from this , or from er , other er , writings about , of myself and other people over this next few months , that a term will emerge that people feel happy with , but certainly we are talking about community partnership . |