Example sentences of "[conj] they [be] talking [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that but that 's tha that 's defeating the whole object of the exercise of getting you know more foot patrols , because it 's foot patrols that they 're talking about all the time , if you give 'em a car you go back to the you know the fire brigade syndrome when it was zip zip zip |
| 2 | The key to this paradox is that they were talking about different kinds of capitalists . |
| 3 | I realized that they were talking about some poems of Emily 's . |
| 4 | No blinking Sam goes to me , cos we were , we were , we turned Arachnophobia off because people needed the toilet and erm there was Songs of Praise or , you know , something like that and they were talking about all this terrorism , somebody said oh I 'm glad you did n't go to London said but I did and she goes oh no you did n't did you ? worried about me going to London |
| 5 | One of the mightiest warlords in the history of existence , and they were talking about bloody cats ! |
| 6 | So I mean and if a and surely if they 're talking about actual support in terms of food and money I mean can they really . |
| 7 | The people who employ me , the Eastern Health and Social Services Board and the government , in the past have called us in the RVH , and now it all depends who they are talking to — if they are talking to the American delegation we are Marxist revolutionaries and if they are talking to other delegations they have branded us as Provos . |
| 8 | And er really er they themselves thought exactly the same like , but they were talking about other people telling them you know that they could n't get this far but they did . |
| 9 | But they were talking about forty years or so |
| 10 | One possible interpretation is that , since they are talking about different historical periods , the nature of family relationships in Lancashire had actually changed between the middle of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth ( Lewis , 1984 , p. 54 ) . |
| 11 | And for a moment you do n't know whether they 're talking about this strange bodily posture or running a club . |
| 12 | I mean biologists , when they 're talking to one another , are , by and large , talking about Darwin and that 's what I 've been trying to do . |