Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] talk " in BNC.
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| 1 | The working groups are currently on working on that , and they , my colleagues I assume are talking to the the officers of the Social Services about that , what is happening , but the final outcome has yet to appear . |
| 2 | What they really like is talking about it , talking about others doing it , and feeling mighty relieved when their partner arrives home with a headache . |
| 3 | One of the things that experienced care staff do is talk about anything that is bothering them . |
| 4 | Seem like all we ever do is talk about schooling other people 's children . |
| 5 | For some time it seems I 've been talking to myself . |
| 6 | Do you want the rest of the world to say the British are so aggressive that they need the sort of controls we 've been talking about ? |
| 7 | ‘ You 've been talking to the girls ? ’ |
| 8 | I 've been talking with Father O'Harte , and I 'm come back . |
| 9 | ‘ I mean , all this we 've been talking about . |
| 10 | ‘ All these years I 've been talking and telling , ’ he writes , ‘ and I 'm not sure if anybody listens or understands me . |
| 11 | ‘ You 've been talking a lot , ’ she said aggressively . |
| 12 | In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been talking to people about this , 'cos everyone thinks the video is so sexy , you know . |
| 14 | We 've been talking to cinemas in London and will bring it over there soon . ’ |
| 15 | But I ca n't see in the long run that it would make any difference to what we 've been talking about , seeing who Maggie is . |
| 16 | ‘ We came here ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ to talk about you and I 've been talking about nothing but myself the whole time . |
| 17 | I 've been talking to Dr Wickram about this . |
| 18 | But do n't lets knock it to death do n't lets kick it this place saved my life I almost killed myself trying to fulfil those that we 've been talking about . |
| 19 | There 's very little room for the qualitative work I 've been talking about : it it is there it tends to get tacked on to an existing project when the sociologist is brought in to provide expertise on survey design or interviewing or to use a standard measure of patient ‘ quality of life . ’ |
| 20 | You 've been talking to him , have n't you ? |
| 21 | You 've been talking to Stuart . |
| 22 | We 've been talking about the events in Beirut . ’ |
| 23 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 24 | Erm , oh I have got something else , which is music , erm , at the last meeting I said I 've been talking to Simon from the Queen 's Hall , about the idea of doing pre-concert notes |
| 25 | Pretty silly , because you have n't done that piece of work , so perhaps what you would like to do if you would like to follow it with us , then I will give you back , I think I might have your survey here , and you can at least see what we 've been talking about and then on that we can write absent for this piece of work , does that make sense , good . |
| 26 | Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here . |
| 27 | You know , I 'd like to ask a question , why is it so , why is it so frightening to spoil yourself ? , why is it such a , a wrong thing to spoil yourself , erm we 've been talking about make up we 've been talking about |
| 28 | You know , I 'd like to ask a question , why is it so , why is it so frightening to spoil yourself ? , why is it such a , a wrong thing to spoil yourself , erm we 've been talking about make up we 've been talking about |
| 29 | to other things , we 've kind of veered of the , one of the subjects that we were er , we did get onto which was how the police and the courts er handle er well victims and indeed criminals , I wonder if I might conflate erm both those groups into one question , its a very broad question , but I wonder if you think by and large the police do a good job , erm button one for yes and button two for no , erm and the majority here say yes , seventy seventy people say yes the , the police do a good job and since we 've talked about the courts do you think the courts do a good job by and large ? , we 've been talking specifically about erm some of the more bizarre erm statements that have come from the bench , particularly in with reference to crimes erm , that have treated against women , well now , seventy nine say no , so the police comes thumbs up , but the courts are way down , now not surprisingly there are n't many representatives from the courts er amongst this hundred |
| 30 | That 's two different kinds of love though then , love , loving your neighbour I suppose is the widest sense and er and the love between a parent and child , are those more recognisable as , as true love if you like than the kind of romantic love , sexual love that we 've been talking about , yes |