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 | And , of course , in no time at all , we were talking about the one thing that obsessed every one of us , cancer . |
| 7 | What we were talking about the poor peasants last week , the week before last , they 're not that poor they 're |
| 8 | Well we were talking about the general lack of faith in governments |
| 9 | Well they were talking about the eleven plus you see |
| 10 | You were saying this morning on the end of the news you were talking about the four man |
| 11 | If the scanners were to be believed , two people were talking about the same matters in similar terms night after night . |
| 12 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
| 13 | ‘ Afterwards some of the children were talking about the Three Wise Queens . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We were talking about the National Executive Committee and she was thinking of standing for the women 's section . |
| 16 | They were talking of the developed countries , of course , perhaps with North America mainly in mind . |
| 17 | Again , er they were talking at the higher reach of our number |
| 18 | Kelly was talking for the first time since Brentford striker Blissett was acquitted of assaulting Torquay defender John Uzzell last week . |
| 19 | Saxton was talking for the first time since being sent home from Barcelona for taking the drug Clenbuterol . |
| 20 | Jessamyn was talking to the tall thing . |
| 21 | He was talking to the other two . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He was talking to the Indian , sharp , barked questions in Spanish . |
| 24 | Can I just confirm with Mr Curtis that when he was talking about the thirty three hectares , he was talking about thirty three hectares in terms of in terms of a change of use |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Dave even came up with an idea we was talking about the other day . |
| 27 | Everybody was talking about the skinny blond guy he lived with . |
| 28 | Me and Emma was talking about the flipping things she gets up to with Scott . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Yes , of course they are , but we , I was talking about the old sort of diesel multiple unit . |