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 | 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 |
| 4 | Yes , they , they 're talking about that person 's personality , and their personality is not something they can change . |
| 5 | And now they 're talking about freezing it ! |
| 6 | they 're talking about five offices as opposed to three . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And for a moment you do n't know whether they 're talking about this strange bodily posture or running a club . |
| 9 | But not the news they 're talking about this . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They 're talking about another round of early retirements . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | I mean biologists , when they 're talking to one another , are , by and large , talking about Darwin and that 's what I 've been trying to do . |
| 15 | ‘ They 're talking of little else , ’ said the head groom . |
| 16 | Would they be talking to each other ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Mrs Short : The way they were talking at that meeting George is going to residential school . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | One of the mightiest warlords in the history of existence , and they were talking about bloody cats ! |
| 22 | I realized that they were talking about some poems of Emily 's . |
| 23 | The key to this paradox is that they were talking about different kinds of capitalists . |
| 24 | Tempting as this comparison is , however , it is not quite fair ; they were talking about different things . |
| 25 | the terms they were talking about ten years ago . |
| 26 | But they were talking about forty years or so |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They were talking in Spanish and I was only half awake . |