Example sentences of "they [be] talking [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And now they 're talking about freezing it ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We have tried to list the connections existing across contributions in this discourse fragment to emphasise the ways speakers make what they 're talking about fit into a framework which represents what we ( as discourse participants ) are talking about in conversational discourse . |
| 6 | of tricking people into believing sort of things that are n't true , which they 're saying that er they 're talking to deceased people like people said they talked to er Elvis Presley |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One of the mightiest warlords in the history of existence , and they were talking about bloody cats ! |
| 9 | The key to this paradox is that they were talking about different kinds of capitalists . |
| 10 | Tempting as this comparison is , however , it is not quite fair ; they were talking about different things . |
| 11 | They were talking in Spanish again so that I could n't follow what was said , only the gist of it , and that largely from the names they referred to : Iris Sunderby 's , of course , her grandfather , too , and the Connors , Sheila Connor in particular , and there was constant repetition of the name Rosalli Gabrielli . |
| 12 | They were talking in Spanish and I was only half awake . |