Example sentences of "they [be] talking [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that but that 's tha that 's defeating the whole object of the exercise of getting you know more foot patrols , because it 's foot patrols that they 're talking about all the time , if you give 'em a car you go back to the you know the fire brigade syndrome when it was zip zip zip |
| 2 | Yes , they , they 're talking about that person 's personality , and their personality is not something they can change . |
| 3 | And for a moment you do n't know whether they 're talking about this strange bodily posture or running a club . |
| 4 | But not the news they 're talking about this . |
| 5 | Add positive three , see this thing of using the same symbol for add and for positive is very confusing , very confusing , it 's as though , you know you 're speaking a different language where one word has about fifteen different meanings and you ca n't understand what they 're talking about most of the time . |
| 6 | They 're talking about another round of early retirements . |
| 7 | ‘ They 're talking of little else , ’ said the head groom . |
| 8 | Would they be talking to each other ? |
| 9 | They were talking to each other loudly as if to keep lurking wood-spirits at bay , and I did vividly remember that teenage spooky feeling of being alone in wild woodland and at the mercy of supernatural eyes . |
| 10 | Mrs Short : The way they were talking at that meeting George is going to residential school . |
| 11 | No blinking Sam goes to me , cos we were , we were , we turned Arachnophobia off because people needed the toilet and erm there was Songs of Praise or , you know , something like that and they were talking about all this terrorism , somebody said oh I 'm glad you did n't go to London said but I did and she goes oh no you did n't did you ? worried about me going to London |
| 12 | I realized that they were talking about some poems of Emily 's . |
| 13 | My father had er , horses at that time and my uncle out at Holt , he had some horses they were talking about this one day and uncles would say well a horse did n't work nearly as hard with that road 's were nice and solid . |