Example sentences of "[was/were] talking about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we were talking about the Jordan motor racing team , and talking about the major sponsorship deal from soft drink manufacturers Seven Up . |
| 2 | ‘ We were talking about the Battle of Jutland . |
| 3 | Well apart from those things erm tt when , when you were talking about the back erm Steve sort of gestured , in a way , that yes my back was erm oh my back , yes , that 's only a one off thing , there may have been some other health problem there which could 've gone into . |
| 4 | Most of those who discussed human variety were talking about the differences in the physical appearance of human individuals , though they often mixed up characteristics which now seem to be plainly innate , such as skin colour , with characteristics which are plainly cultural , such as mode of dress . |
| 5 | For instance , we were talking about the cinema , and he told me that the average Hollywood film reaches a larger public than the Holy Scriptures . |
| 6 | and er , we were like , we was on about , you know like we were talking about the education system and everything in English and you know I told you they were on about people changing at eleven and everyone else in the class wanted the thirteen system except me , it 's only cos what they 're used |
| 7 | we were only thinking about it this morning and I says I would n't mind a break , you know , like , cos , I mean aunty Mary 's always inviting us , and , and we were talking about the cat |
| 8 | When you were talking about the equipment changing for road traffic accidents , in what way has that changed ? |
| 9 | The er the honourable gentleman might well have seen a copy of the er the provisional report which has been prepared but that provisional report is er the same basis as the report er which was presented to er Westminster city council er and then we were n't talking er a difficulty of er two million pounds created , created as a direct result of government under funding of the police authority there , we were talking about the expropriation of millions of pounds to line the pockets and to further the political interests of his party and I did notice the honourable gentleman er vociferous in his condemnation of Westminster city council or any of the other tory controlled city councils . |
| 10 | By the end of 1991 , even the Arabs and Israelis were talking about the possibility of peace . |
| 11 | Ju I thought you were talking about the tombola when you were saying fifty pence a strip , sorry . |
| 12 | Pulled them up by their boot strings , was what he said , but then they were talking about the Treaty of Versailles and about war reparations being hard on Germany . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We were talking about the trip to Rome after Easter , ’ said Sophia , pouring out a cup of stewed tea for Mark . |
| 14 | ‘ We were talking about the trip to Rome just now , ’ said Sophia , going into Ianthe 's room with the tray . |
| 15 | you know there was something wrong I was sitting listening I mean I 'm not been involved when you were talking about the stock take somewhere along the line a few things have slipped because when you go back , in the days when I used to be morning stock takes , we used to before the event , you would nearly always have the counts done . |
| 16 | Having been at the game with magi , once we had finished the joyous celebrations ( The following christmas : - ) ) we were talking about the killer goal from strach . |
| 17 | Well , he was talk we were talking about the rave and th what was wrong with it and he was saying basically it was they 'd got four DJs who were all techno and they were like brilliant ! |
| 18 | He was serving other people all the while and making out we were talking about the Superbowl . |
| 19 | I have schoolteacher friends , and we were talking about the impact of all this on our children ; that they are becoming even more radical than we were and unavoidably so . |
| 20 | Sorry I thought you were talking about the weights on the |
| 21 | Nathan turned the conversation to the bear trap in the museum , asking Odd-Knut if he had seen it , and soon we were talking about the killing of film on seal killing had been shown , an indictment of the Norwegian sealers . |
| 22 | There 's no doubt about it , the government should do a lot more and I 'm sorry to leave on this kind of basic note , the thing what really got was when they were talking about the coal miners and I mean , I know that particular area quite well , where they , they said we 'll put some money in for training ! |
| 23 | C. I thought we were talking about the H-bomb . |
| 24 | erm and I think maybe that you , you jumped in should n't have done that er because obviously M Martin got quite defensive at that point you know because you were only going there to do this financial planning service and er selling them anything , you were just offering this financial planning service and then you jumped in with these , when I come back with my recommendations erm tt I also thought that erm you know it was a little bit dodgy actually to say you , well you know erm tt we have found that our records are incorrect and I thought well then that maybe and erm you went ve you went very o when you were talking about the dependants erm you , you you did n't seem to get into er erm how many children have you got and is there any other dependants , it , you , it seemed to take you a long time to actually get there . |
| 25 | Molly , Edith ( Harlow ) and I were talking about the Medauring in Germany started by Sofie Trappe , and I said we ought to form a group in England — Molly 's reaction was ‘ that 's fine Andy so long as I have nothing to do with the organisation ’ … so that year we formed the Studio Club . |
| 26 | but it 's also linked , I mean the other thing that I 've got at the back of my mind , is a kind of nightmare , is that when we were talking about the Festival around about March that you know , we spoke to Ingy er you know as a group and then that was all fine and we kept er going along and then , and then there was that sort of dreadful phone call I had from Linda along the lines as I 'm not sure if I 've got any describers |
| 27 | I mean even I understand you were talking about the children sort of being out in the dark on their own erm even just something as simple as that . |
| 28 | People on the bus were talking about the number of police cars on the road and someone said another girl was missing . |
| 29 | They were talking about the House of Representatives at Weimar — ‘ That troublesome place ’ , as the T'ang continually called it — and about ways of shoring up the tenuous peace that now existed between it and the Seven . |
| 30 | Does the Secretary of State recall that , earlier this year , when he was talking about the increase in BR 's external financing , he said that there would be £70 million more for safety matters ? |