Example sentences of "[noun sg] was talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tibetan was talking in loud self-congratulatory tones about the religious statues and paintings that he 'd smuggled across the border and sold in India ; how time and again he 'd outwitted the border police , with silver , musk and contraband of every sort . |
| 2 | The stranger was talking with vivacity ; she was eating little and without attention ; her wine-glasses were untouched . |
| 3 | It was an enraging affectation , worthy of an Oxford undergraduate , especially as Charlie might do it in the middle of a conversation , as he had done recently at a college gig : the Union President was talking to him when Charlie 's hands reached into his side pocket , the book was extracted and opened , and the man 's eyes popped in disbelief as Charlie imbibed a beakerful of the warm South . |
| 4 | After a while , however , Pound 's constant and insistent proselytizing began to annoy him , and he reverts to his usual more careful and elaborate prose while explaining ( as so many of Pound 's correspondents did ) that he did not at all understand what Pound was talking about . |
| 5 | Gurder was talking to the Thing in a low voice . |
| 6 | The guard was talking to Evans as Morgan glared at the screen , then took out a cigar and clamped his teeth on it . |
| 7 | ’ Someone in a bar was talking about Ardakke in connection with Gharr the Gherpotean ’ . |
| 8 | He was not in the clubhouse , where the Lord Lieutenant was on the telephone to Downing Street , nor at the police emergency centre , where the Chief Constable was talking to the duty officer in the Cabinet Office Briefing Room . |
| 9 | As he said this , he noticed that Cowslip had joined them and that Strawberry was talking to him quietly . |
| 10 | When I returned to the drawing room , a clergyman was talking about the hardships being suffered by children in Berlin . |
| 11 | Two weeks ago , the rector was talking about the unity of the body of Christ in the church ; as he spoke , he drew attention to a review of a new book by the Regius professor of theology at Oxford . |
| 12 | The Archon was talking to his daughter . |
| 13 | Saxton was talking for the first time since being sent home from Barcelona for taking the drug Clenbuterol . |
| 14 | The teacher was talking to the class . |
| 15 | The tourist was talking about his homeland . |
| 16 | The voice of Mrs Plant called out from behind a lighted upstairs window , wanting to know whom her husband was talking to . |
| 17 | ‘ We got rid of an old woman and replaced him with a younger one , ’ Fergus said , mouth turned down at the corners , staring over his whisky tumbler and across the room to where his wife was talking to Antonia . |
| 18 | Below is an extract from the field notes , where the field-worker was talking with two plain-clothes men : |
| 19 | He could n't understand what the lecturer was talking about because he knew nothing about accounts . |
| 20 | When we were in the meadow opposite the Grotto and Father was talking about Bernadette I felt as though I could see her . |
| 21 | In high spirits , his father was talking about the immense advances made in forensic science in recent years . |
| 22 | Albert asked him once if he did n't find it agonizingly painful on the calves , especially in the case of an attempt to stop , but the child obviously did n't know what his father was talking about . |
| 23 | US West Inc , which last week was talking about the multimedia database system it is developing with Oracle Corp ( CI No 2,166 ) , is stepping up its commitment to infotainment by agreeing to pay $2,500m for a 25% stake in Time Warner Inc 's Time Warner Entertainment affiliate — in which Toshiba Corp and Japanese trader Itochu Corp each has a stake — to seal a deal under which the two companies will collaborate to develop electronic superhighways — full-service cable networks offering interactive programming , entertainment and information . |
| 24 | Yes , well , as a matter of fact er , the moderator was talking to me on the telephone |
| 25 | She knew very well what the dog was talking about . |
| 26 | Outside a mad woman was talking to herself : she wore several coats and had a troubled , concentrated expression . |
| 27 | Pat said , " I gather Bert thinks this comrade the one Jasper was talking to at Melstead may have some useful leads . " |
| 28 | However , even if we take that summarising phrase as one possible expression of the topic of speaker R 's lengthy contribution , we have surely not adequately characterised what this speaker was talking about . |
| 29 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
| 30 | Lamond was talking to some people and then as he was leaving he came by me and said , ‘ But , you know , it was n't all as beautiful as you might imagine ! ’ |