Example sentences of "we be talking [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst it may be too much to ask that you immediately take on any responsibility for seeing that the 120,000 weekly NME s are properly recycled ( By heck , we are talking SERIOUS wank — ER ! — SW ) , you could perhaps act responsibly by doing your bit to ease unemployment by taking on someone with the job of disposing of your own rubbish soundly . |
| 2 | We are talking major league performance here , even in 1990 ; in 1965 nothing road legal would even look at a Cobra in a straight line . |
| 3 | ‘ We are talking recreational therapy , the blowing of beautiful iridescent bubbles , ’ states Pearce . |
| 4 | This is the president who has this wonderful rhetoric about states and federalism and , you know , the rights of states , but he was , he himself was not afraid to use the power of the federal government to try and lever the states into line and it worked , you know , we 're talking serious money here . |
| 5 | Wayne 's World may have made Scooby Doo hip , but we 're talking serious addiction to cartoon characters that even your five-year-old sister would think are naff . |
| 6 | ‘ The Malk 's character is a complete cynic on life , not just a cynic , we 're talking complete apathy , ’ he says . |
| 7 | I think there 's a scale element cos we 're talking one sheet here and it 's a it 's a much bigger exercise . |
| 8 | We 're talking petty cash , I 'll pay you what I can justify without having to explain it away . |
| 9 | ‘ We 're talking major marketing strategies here . |
| 10 | We 're talking major league crunch here , aided and abetted by the sustain of the glued-neck construction and the vibrancy of alder and maple . |
| 11 | We 're talking fifteen working days . |
| 12 | A house like this has had its day , we 're talking social wilderness , as well as the natural sort . |
| 13 | You see we 're not talking of newspapers as we probably traditionally known , we 're talking commercial interest . |
| 14 | So they traded them just as we traded with the wool and we 're talking twelfth century thirteenth century , fourteenth century . |
| 15 | We 're talking Euro-yen capital market activities . |
| 16 | We when we got the song first and recorded we we were talking one day and we were just saying it would be an ideal song for Children in Need you know so we decided that we 'd er donate all the proceeds from this track on the video and album and the concert in Stockport , it 's tomorrow night is n't it ? |
| 17 | Yeah so anyway and I said that 's not very nice so we were talking this morning about her and I had to tell Ann did n't I that she drove to work three days on a trot in her bleeding lights two . |
| 18 | You may remember that we were talking last autumn about gas prices hopefully continuing to rise natural gas by to rise during the rest of the year and in fact that did take place and it did have some impact on the domestic rig count in the United States which went up quite strongly in the last part of the year . |