Example sentences of "i [vb base] [pers pn] [be] talking " in BNC.

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1 I mean they was talking about getting a really small for erm
2 I mean they were talking on the video about profit margins , but he did n't company he was supposed to achieve , presumably there was a minimum for all three of them , so What else would you do with Bernard ?
3 one-offish basis , I mean we are talking a certain one of
4 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
5 I mean we 're talking eighty per cent .
6 No , but if you had the staff , I mean we 're talking about a hypothetical situation , would you still try doing that ?
7 I mean we 're talking about
8 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 .
9 I mean we 're talking big numbers an hour are n't we really ?
10 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
11 And I mean I 'm talking in matter of a few thousand pounds , to do for for a whole year .
12 No compensation , but I , I mean I 'm talking about after government or anything like that .
13 And consequently that 's why he only p I mean I 'm talking now about oh about four years ago .
14 I , I I mean I 'm talking smashing now
15 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 .
16 I mean you 're talking like I mean years , I mean really it 's
17 But I mean you 're talking
18 I mean you 're talking , you 're talking about old middle class rather staid people .
19 No , well the thing is I mean you 're talking of five or six hundred pounds
20 Well Peugeot I mean you 're talking a hell of a lot for spares .
21 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 ?
22 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 !
23 Wh what was it common , I mean you were talking there about people would buy things that they never bought before ?
24 I mean he was talking to Norman over the fence the other day and it sounds like gunfire
25 I mean she 's talking about it and I said well I thought at five they were probably a bit young .
26 I suggest we are talking about a murderer rather than murderers .
27 I 'd just like to say that only Conservatives could actually put need in one paragraph and slip straight into financial in the next and I assume they 're talking about the same thing .
28 I mean even I understand you were talking about the children sort of being out in the dark on their own erm even just something as simple as that .
29 But I think we see that with the capital programme , that quite clearly you 're erm , having to take into account the fact that capital spend erm , can not be er maintained at the level it has in the past , and indeed I believe you are talking about this matter , er , later on this morning .
30 After half an hour 's dedicated sales pitch , I find I am talking to a devoted collector of Hummel figurines .
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