Example sentences of "we [was/were] talking [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And , of course , in no time at all , we were talking about the one thing that obsessed every one of us , cancer .
2 So if we were talking about the Middle Ages we had Gregorian chants , or if we were doing the First World War we had First-world-war songs .
3 We 've been talking about them as facilitators and the need for compatibility , I think there 's also a need for every system to have a back-up of some kind , either of power or maybe a manual back-up , which in fact we were talking about the other evening .
4 We were talking about the new settlement .
5 What we were talking about the poor peasants last week , the week before last , they 're not that poor they 're
6 Well we were talking about the general lack of faith in governments
7 Now just to give you some figures I mean same tariff that 's the world price supplied the rest of the world , in fact the tariff on it show them that the operation of a a tariff can affect erm world prices and just to give you some idea erm ah , can we just you know when we were talking about the net economic costs well they 're within the European Community , those costs .
8 But erm er and , and she said erm you know the little , we were talking about the little corner shop and how they used to keep open all hours .
9 We were talking about the National Executive Committee and she was thinking of standing for the women 's section .
10 Dave even came up with an idea we was talking about the other day .
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