Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [be] talking [prep] " 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 | Barbel fishing in the early days , and I am talking to more than a hundred years ago , was very popular amongst the gentry , who used to employ a man to bait a swim with thousands of lobworms over a period of days , sometimes weeks . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 1960 The Wesker Trilogy , The Kitchen , Chicken Soup and I 'm Talking About Jerusalem open to great acclaim at the Royal Court . |
| 8 | Of course they 're rock and pop now , I suppose , … and I 'm talking about from 1st years onwards . |
| 9 | 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 , |
| 10 | Yeah well you 're talking about four and I 'm talking about six bungalows . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But Newbon goes on to explain : ‘ He 's now gone and I 'm talking to the present managing director . |
| 14 | We will be reserving our rights and I 'm talking to our legal people in the US . |
| 15 | that 's right he says this is Mark , he says come in here a minute , says will you move your car and he says no I wo n't move my car , he says this is a public area and my car is parked there I 've been , been into the shop and I 'm talking to my mates . |
| 16 | Well if you 're all the way over there and I 'm talking to you I can hear my voice more . |
| 17 | I have tried to explain why the hon. Member for Gateshead , East and I were talking at cross purposes . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , so you were unable to hear what your mother and I were talking about ? ’ she asked naughtily . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | The first time I wore this , I 'd had it for about two months and I was talking to Princess Margaret , but as we spoke , I could see she was following my hand with her eyes . |
| 24 | Then she told her sister , who came down in a taxi and I was talking to a woman who would not get off the phone . |
| 25 | We have a special shipping section , and I was talking to them before I came here . |
| 26 | Bradley Star is a very nice horse he 's a classy performer this one , Josh Gifford 's horses are in tremendous form and I was talking to the man who who rides him Deckland Murphy he 's my next door neighbour he thinks he 'll run a big race . |
| 27 | And we were at MacDonalds and I was talking to her , anyway , he even got really jealous cos I was talking to her . |
| 28 | The things I find so tragic , and I was talking to some girls erm in a sixth form college recently , and the thing that I find saddest is that the schools evade the issue . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |