Example sentences of "we [was/were] talk [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You also find Marian that we were talking about that this morning as well we can not cover the national curriculum without more homework |
| 2 | But like , like , I mean Andy , Andy goes yeah , like , cos we were talking about that , and he goes , yeah you 've got childbearing hips ! |
| 3 | We were talking about this when we were talking about that subject on Monday , were n't we ? |
| 4 | But you know the other day we were talking about that tulip thing that 's down by erm Marks and Sparks ? |
| 5 | We were talking about that today , because you know the bit where , this is Ghost by the way , you know the bit where the man jumps inside Whoopie Goldberg ? |
| 6 | Cos Scott goes to him cos , we were talking about flipping biting other people 's nipples or something ! |
| 7 | Firstly chairman , er er , a comment about the district auditor , I do find it a little perverse , that in fact on the last subject when we were talking about small schools , he does n't take into account any other erm , item than the financial argument . |
| 8 | I thought we were talking about one man , Philippe Maurin ? ’ |
| 9 | Now if we get back to what we were talking about due to today so then you do a bit more and then it 's back to the sort of really . |
| 10 | b my wife and I was only discussing it er day before yesterday I think it was , we were talking about it because we were talking about this sort of thing . |
| 11 | We were talking about this in the car cos he 's five and six months . |
| 12 | You er but when we were talking about this she told me that |
| 13 | We were talking about this when we were talking about that subject on Monday , were n't we ? |
| 14 | Remember what we were talking about this morning how things have changed in service in shops |
| 15 | She does kiss cos we were talking about this in science . |
| 16 | So we were talking about this and |
| 17 | But Suzanne , you say that we were talking about this in our college . |
| 18 | ‘ We were talking about 1968 and 1969 and the songs that changed the face of country music — Sunday Morning Coming Down , Boy Named Sue , Lay Lady Lay , Both Sides Now — someone said they were songs that made a difference . |
| 19 | Right then , we were talking about local parishes , and in most cases a parish is sufficiently small to walk round . |
| 20 | I wan na say on that question we were talking about earlier on about the young people and some facilities for them . |
| 21 | One of the things we were talking about earlier this morning was , from our point of view anyway , what a super January we had . |
| 22 | As a mother I warm to someone who observes that so many of the modern theories on childcare ‘ show utter contempt for women 's judgement ’ , and who points out that , when it comes to smacking , ‘ if we were talking about any other activity which was so widespread , people would say this was a method which was tried and tested and obviously worked . |
| 23 | So , the , the other thing which is er erm , a real problem , partly because of that , is , is when one talks about an increase in in giving , increase in percentage i , or a contribution of the church is in er , we were talking about twenty percent la , twenty one percent last year that would be alright if everybody gave twenty one percent ! |
| 24 | One of the things we were talking about last time was separating mixtures and solvents . |
| 25 | erm and surely this , this is the implication that we were talking about last week , that erm if , if you are going to promote industrialization which is now the aim somebody 's got ta produce a surplus for investment for that . |
| 26 | Now in fact what that means for me is that actually we 're all programmers — we always have been — but we have n't been used to explaining it in quite the way that computers need us to explain it , and of course that goes back to this question of understanding English that we were talking about last time . |
| 27 | It 's like other day , we were talking to this bloke like , and he were on about businesses , says you ca n't underst , oh he said something about finances , how difficult it is to get finance to start a business up and er , he said , I know , he said you ca n't me , he said . |
| 28 | Er , Dennis , who we were talking to last night , he says , you must be absolutely mental ! |
| 29 | We were talking on open telephone lines . ’ |
| 30 | Well , no , we are governed by our Annual General Meeting , but it 's not unrealistic to ask for double figures , because basically we were talking in that vein last year , and of course we eventually settled for 8.8 . |