Example sentences of "were [adv] talking [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Panslavists were soon talking of the Congress as a conspiracy against the Russian people .
2 ‘ We were just talking about a case of Camille 's . ’
3 They were still talking about the incident on Wednesday when Kathleen returned to work after her days off .
4 At breakfast-time they were still talking about the feast to come .
5 The villagers were still talking about the servant-girl 's revelations when dawn broke on a grim picture .
6 It would be much simpler if he were simply talking about the relationship between the legislative and the executive cos here he could say right , if the executive gets out of hand and starts acting arbitrarily and tyrannically , then the legislative acting on behalf of the people as a whole can take action as indeed parliament did during the civil wars .
7 The FGRA were continually talking about the apathy of the working classes .
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