Example sentences of "i [vb base] we [be] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | one-offish basis , I mean we are talking a certain one of |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | I mean we 're talking eighty per cent . |
| 4 | No , but if you had the staff , I mean we 're talking about a hypothetical situation , would you still try doing that ? |
| 5 | I mean we 're talking about |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I mean we 're talking big numbers an hour are n't we really ? |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | ‘ I suggest we are talking about a murderer rather than murderers . |
| 10 | I suppose we 're talking about people who people other people the people who are paying the Poll Tax just do n't really care that much about . |
| 11 | I suppose we 're talking non-league here . |
| 12 | The silence seemed to go on interminably , before either Mr Smith or Mr Jones found it in him to mutter : ‘ I suppose we were talking a little out of turn there . |
| 13 | I think we 're talking about anorexia here , are n't we ? |
| 14 | ‘ Up ’ ( and I think we 're talking more than the one level of ambiguity in that solitary two-letter word ) is a record that actually makes you feel happy , in that all of it is uplifting ( oi ! spiritually , not trouserly ) , you can dance to some of it and sing along to the rest , the words are rude and witty and always smart , and Richard Fairbrass is a fantastic pop singer , all post-Bowie and Ferry and languid , a sort of brightly-coloured Neil Tennant . |
| 15 | It may be that this explanation is not an acceptable answer to the question , but it is presented by the speaker in a form which conveys ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ in this part of the conversation . |
| 16 | Characterising the individual speaker 's topic as ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ incorporates both that element which the conversational analyst tends to abstract as the ‘ topic of conversation ’ for the participants ( 'What we 're talking about' ) and the individual speaker 's version ( 'I think' ) , as he/she makes a conversational contribution . |
| 17 | From what we have proposed as speakers ' topics in conversational discourse , it must occasionally happen that there are at least two versions of ‘ What I think we 're talking about ’ which are potentially incompatible . |
| 18 | We might characterise speaker B's view of ‘ what I think we 're talking about now ’ as something involving herself , the 1930s , and the existence of telephones ( as well as radios ) at that time . |
| 19 | Speaker B's view of ‘ what I think we 're talking about now ’ must now involve speaker A , A's father , the Scouts and a man ( who may have something to do with telephones ) . |
| 20 | Looking back to speaker C's third question , we can propose two versions of ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ . |
| 21 | We might think that by the end of this fragment there is once again a single version for both speakers of ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ . |
| 22 | I think we 're talking at cross purposes . |
| 23 | I think we 're talking about once the suspension was over |
| 24 | I think we 're talking about |
| 25 | That 's the sort of unconscious bias that I think we 're talking about where |
| 26 | Well , I think we 're talking here about hospitals in particular and not GP practice but we 're also saying that this is something which the enthusiastic and bright and very capable people we have in our health service are very keen on because they believe it will do better for their patients . |
| 27 | Yeah I presume we 're talking about Wimbledon prize money ? |
| 28 | You , you , we 're , I presume we 're talking about the sounds that can be heard by our ears , by |
| 29 | You may indeed call it a temperamental difference , but I venture we are talking about something rather more . |