Example sentences of "they were talking [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Mrs Short : The way they were talking at that meeting George is going to residential school . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | One of the mightiest warlords in the history of existence , and they were talking about bloody cats ! |
| 6 | I realized that they were talking about some poems of Emily 's . |
| 7 | The key to this paradox is that they were talking about different kinds of capitalists . |
| 8 | Tempting as this comparison is , however , it is not quite fair ; they were talking about different things . |
| 9 | the terms they were talking about ten years ago . |
| 10 | But they were talking about forty years or so |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They were talking in Spanish and I was only half awake . |