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 . |