Example sentences of "[was/were] talking [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Soon all my master 's neighbours were talking about the strange little creature he had found in a field . |
| 3 | We were talking about the new settlement . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | What we were talking about the poor peasants last week , the week before last , they 're not that poor they 're |
| 7 | Well we were talking about the general lack of faith in governments |
| 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 | They were talking of the developed countries , of course , perhaps with North America mainly in mind . |
| 11 | Jessamyn was talking to the tall thing . |
| 12 | He was talking to the other two . |
| 13 | The Führer was talking to the other man in a low voice and totally ignored them as he passed and descended the stairs at the other end of the passage . |
| 14 | He was talking to the Indian , sharp , barked questions in Spanish . |
| 15 | Last week if you remember I was talking about the primary concern of the state , a concern er which is paramount is a concern for its security and I said if you remember that there was an approach er toward the study of international politics called realism which stressed the importance of what has been termed the power security hypothesis . |
| 16 | Dave even came up with an idea we was talking about the other day . |
| 17 | Everybody was talking about the skinny blond guy he lived with . |
| 18 | Me and Emma was talking about the flipping things she gets up to with Scott . |
| 19 | The Unix festival , UniForum ‘ 93 , did n't feel as successful a show as it was last year : it was spread out over a lot more acreage and split into two widely separated pavilions , and attendance looked sparse and the aisles empty despite show management 's claims of a 10% increase in traffic — like as not , it was talking about the pre-registration which was up , but unofficially we hear attendance was down ; UniForum is still more a Unix celebration than anything else but it remains to be seen whether there will still be things to celebrate or whether erosion has set in . |
| 20 | Yes , of course they are , but we , I was talking about the old sort of diesel multiple unit . |
| 21 | Glenn William , the captain of the latest , successful , American Maureen Connolly U21 team to visit these shores , was talking about the inherited problems of British players who have been reared against a background of international failure and negative attitudes . |
| 22 | In high spirits , his father was talking about the immense advances made in forensic science in recent years . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , back at Pillowell , everyone was talking about the big win : |