Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [be] talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No compensation , but I , I mean I 'm talking about after government or anything like that . |
| 2 | And I mean I 'm talking in matter of a few thousand pounds , to do for for a whole year . |
| 3 | And I was in a ca , er school over the summer holidays and er , we were looking at the design and technology and the point was that they got ta design and make some components , and realise I 'm talking about , you know , six , seven , eight year old , mixed girls and boys theirselves , and it was ra rather heart-warming to see where the way these youngsters react . |
| 4 | getting , what do you call it say you been talking about me you know . |
| 5 | Yeah but like if wan na catch someone out , like you go say you were talking to Scott and I wanted to find out something and like I go Scott , and like I 'll be going up close to him , I 'm literally doing this , I 'm going Scott ? |
| 6 | ‘ I suggest we are talking about a murderer rather than murderers . |
| 7 | I mean somebody 's talking to you about something different . |
| 8 | Imagine now communication I 'm talking about not only through letter and telephone I 'm talking about total communication . |
| 9 | Ya Yasunsgat we 're talking about , it 's a |
| 10 | No , well the thing is I mean you 're talking of five or six hundred pounds |
| 11 | But wha what 's y what 's your opinis opinion I mean you 're talking about erm the er marriage from er er er spiritual standpoint from a christian standpoint and here we have the man who erm if he became king would be head of the Church of England assuming it has n't become disestablished by then . |
| 12 | I mean you 're talking about having computers in the offices and perhaps in the home , now this must have great impact on the future education needs of people who are going to use these devices , surely ? |
| 13 | I was gon na say about sex education that when I was learning at school , it 's also very male dominated erm it was , I mean you were talking about erm what 's i li , the differences between males and females learning about sex education and wha , and we were learnt about the the man having pleasure , we were taught about the man having the erection and the man having the orgasm , I mean , we did n't even know what a clitoris was ! |
| 14 | I mean she 's talking about it and I said well I thought at five they were probably a bit young . |
| 15 | Look I 'm talking to daddy , I 've not seen him ye for a while . |
| 16 | more information I mean this is , I mean this is part of what I was talk mythology I mean we 're talking about the index survey so when I raised the example of Churchill and the Churchill ex example is , was a good one because I mean he was an intellectual in his way , you know I mean he was a big bright cookie and but his was in terms of word count because he had a use of words for the way he used his words was how ordinary people would understand him I mean if you go back to you know we will fight them on the beaches and everything else I mean you think of the number of syllables he used in those words etcetera , etcetera I mean that 's sort of what I 'm getting to I mean he had his sharp succinct approach you know |
| 17 | No , but if you had the staff , I mean we 're talking about a hypothetical situation , would you still try doing that ? |
| 18 | I mean we 're talking about |
| 19 | You know but I mean when it comes to a screw and your , I mean we 're talking about coming like this to undo the screw . |
| 20 | I mean we 're talking as if these young women who feel uncomfortable erm are feeling uncomfortable because of something that 's objectively in the |
| 21 | Last week if you remember I was talking about the primary concern of the state , a concern er which is paramount is a concern for its security and I said if you remember that there was an approach er toward the study of international politics called realism which stressed the importance of what has been termed the power security hypothesis . |
| 22 | You know I was talking of cotton and Repetitive Stress Syndrome ? |
| 23 | You see , you know I was talking to you earlier about , about punchlines basically , but I ca n't remember the words I was using for it , times like by the way , right right , or did you know or did I mention to you do you follow me , a lot of key lines that you can think on that you use |
| 24 | ‘ You know you was talking about Chertsey , ’ Ella said . |
| 25 | What I 'd like you to do this evening if you will erm as an exercise is you know you were talking about erm asking questions listening to the answers speaking the same language watching erm talk the language . |
| 26 | Right You know you were talking about them deleting all er references ? |
| 27 | So that 's what flat machines do , they knit , these particular Jacquard and , and that 's what the continentals were good at , it , cos they look , I mean they were far more , we 're so conservative in this country , little better now obviously we do more nowad you know we 're talking about just after the war the Italians and the French were into colour , not garish colour , subtle lovely colours . |
| 28 | Right , now I 'm trying to say to you is , that if , if you write , you write all these things down , you 'll find that one thing wo n't react with another , you know we were talking about interacting |
| 29 | You know we was talking about ? |
| 30 | Remember we 're talking about people who are eighty or ninety moving a bit . |