Example sentences of "[be] talking [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 er and we obviously are trying to push S T V and B B C into this as well , but you know and film , we 're talking to film people as well erm , but this is the first er feature film that 's been done so Marcus who normally
2 I think we 're talking at cross purposes .
3 We 're talking of course about the air we breathe .
4 I mean , you 're talking of sort of , fifteen hundred
5 Yo fr er you 're talking about video ?
6 Oh no , you 're doing it again , you 're talking about school !
7 Erm , I heard Mr Curtis say that the shortfall of affordable houses was seven hundred , he had a target of two thousand two hundred and felt they could find fifteen hundred somewhere already , so another shortfall of of seven hundred that actually contrasts with para' four one one of the one eleven should I say , four one eleven , of the York housing strategy , which has been submitted , and appendix four of the York evidence which actually says that , yes there 's a two thousand two hundred target , but there would still be a shortfall of about one thousand one hundred dwellings if this land , they 're talking about land that they own outside of York , is developed for affordable housing .
8 You 're talking about contribution to the fee earning then ?
9 So we 're talking about ministry .
10 But we 're not talking about legality , we 're talking about morality . ’
11 But I was talking to a Prof up there the other day , the actual A level , do you know , it 's pathetic really , I mean when you 're talking about law degrees you want about threes A's at A and now even accepting C's A , A level C's for engineering itself !
12 What are we talk oh education we 're talking about education right yep .
13 I mean you asked me about formal education , and immediately we 're talking about nursery education .
14 I mean you asked me about formal education and immediately we 're talking about nursery education .
15 Right , so if we 're talking about burglar alarms with the bell box on the outside of
16 I think we 're talking about anorexia here , are n't we ?
17 Well perhaps while we 're doing it all , we 're talking about anorexia , we should talk about the er , the associated erm , disorder , bulimia , which is only recently become something that people are generally aware of .
18 You 're talking about boxing now .
19 where they 're talking about spending money on a one of these old old cage drillers , tooling it up to drill cages at .
20 I use to drink scrumpy you know , you know , I , I mean , I must be going back before your time , you know , a long time , you know , we 're talking about drinking scrumpy in the thirties and forty and fifties , when scrumpy was scrumpy and when we were glad of it Oh , I use to love the old scrumpy .
21 I think they 're a very dangerous mode of education because they provide a very stereo-typed image of everything , everybody that they 're talking about if they 're talking about sex , they presume to be able bodied , they 're presumed to be white generally , they 're presumed to be heterosexual , if they 're talking about homosexual then , it 's definitely male lesbians
22 Oh we 're talking about sex poems .
23 But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year .
24 Okay , if you 're talking about child development , you 're gon na use , if you 're talking about er psychoanalysis you 're gon na use Freud , or psychoanalytical techniques .
25 Er to contact when you 're talking about forgiveness er well that was just the end you know that point .
26 Er , for example , we 're talking about a heart attack damage to heart muscle , we 're talking about strokes where there 's a loss fl , bl , sorry , the flow of blood to the brain , erm , we 're talking about cancer , we 're talking about an abnormal growth of cells , but not all cancers are covered , a skin cancer which is n't life threatening , is n't covered , erm , as a result of perhaps too much sunbathing etcetera , whereas a melanoma , a cancer that comes into er , a great lump on the skin which can be life-threatening , obviously is .
27 But if that that was only I was gon na say the other thing , when you 're talking about damage you know , at one time I would suggest that a good many years , you would n't see any damage out there .
28 They 're talking about Comdex/Spring being the launch pad for Windows NT .
29 To be fair , I did n't , I did say we 're talking about parenting and one one could do another programme perhaps , focusing on the child or the needs and rights of the child in specific , but I think I 've been looking at the almost the scariness , I suppose , of being a parent , the challenges facing parents and the whole half hour , really , has not been about the joys of parenthood , so much as the problems of parenthood !
30 And we 're talking about music ; passionately enough to be waving our arms about ; for our voices to crack in both joy and despair ; for a stranger to be bemused .
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