Example sentences of "be [verb] talking [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The first sign of madness , ’ joke people who have been caught talking to themselves , confident of course that it is not .
2 ‘ You 've made sure that I am seen talking to you at the time of this man 's arrest in a public place .
3 Mr Rowse refused to see Rhoda any more because she 'd been seen talking to Young Catholics Against Witchcraft .
4 Det Con Turnbull recognised two of the youths and his inquiries revealed they had been overheard talking about cash and an off-licence .
5 ‘ You are to start talking to him , Miss Quinn .
6 Rosette could be heard talking in the kitchen .
7 Er so much so , you see that er er er people who did have employment in the industry would not , would not be seen talking to left-wing Labour party people , or members of the Communist party , because they readily understood , you know , that here was a risk that they were running , whereby they may indeed lo er er lose their employment .
8 But I did n't want to be seen talking to her in the office , so I should have to wait until she got home .
9 Why should n't I be seen talking to an old mate , eh ? ’
10 He 's just as likely to be found talking to a six-strong student society in Bangor as addressing 500 top Earth scientists in Washington ; he will have a drink with ( and on ) me just as readily ( or so he makes it appear ) as he will have lunch with ( and no doubt on ) the director of the US National Science Foundation ; if he 's not corresponding with some editor over some esoteric point of science , he 's trying to persuade the high-ups at the European Space Agency to do something adventurous in planetology for a change .
11 so I 'll be sitting talking to Donna , cos Donna , Helen and Jenny be sitting in one group with Sarah , they 'll be chatting away and I 'll be sitting in the middle , sitting on
12 Do n't ask me Matt , I 've been sitting talking for many long days
13 We are left talking to each other almost as if we had met before .
14 And you were seen talking to your pal Jordan who is on the case .
15 In Birmingham , Alabama , you could be banished from the city for being seen talking to a Communist , which was held to be committing a public nuisance .
16 The two girls he had noticed earlier were standing talking to some other girls .
17 While O'Neill would have shared some of those views , he was more concerned with the future than with the past and he deliberately set about ending Ulster 's ‘ petty apartheid ’ by visiting Catholic schools ( no previous Ulster premier had ever set foot in one ) , being photographed talking to priests and nuns , and meeting a cardinal .
18 She 's stopped talking to me .
19 On the tape Dame Vera Lynn is interviewed talking about the work of the Association .
20 I hope you can find it , er if yo if er if you want and and the important thing is to keep talking about it , keep exchanging information .
21 The first step is to start talking about stress , not as something shameful but as an interesting , understandable and , up to a point , an inevitable accompaniment to high levels of demand and uncertainty .
22 Okay , now erm , today as you realize with feelings of immense relief is the last lecture of the term , so , so what I 'm gon na do , is to start talking about the er , so called black books of Freud , the set texts in this , in this course and I 'm gon na start talking today about the first , and in some ways , one of the most important of these , Totem and Taboo , and since it 's the last lecture of term , and you probably all forget what I said over the Christmas holiday , and wo n't be able to recall it afterwards , through the alcoholic haze , er what I thought I 'd do today , was talk about Totem and Taboo in the way in which it looked backwards rather than forwards .
23 ‘ Okay , ’ I say , when Frank 's finished talking to me as though I 'm a Sun reader .
24 Shortly after taking the Irish job , he was heard talking about ‘ John McGrath ’ , the former Newcastle and Southampton defender , who now manages Halifax .
25 Even Nazi Who Escaped justice At Nuremberg , at number 42 , was seen talking to people in a high , jovial voice , that only increased his resemblance to a Gestapo officer .
26 This was bad luck on Helga , who got drunk with an American soldier and was not allowed to forget it , and on Hildegard , who was taken in by the police when she was seen talking to an ex-convict , but worked in favour of Martin , who made quite a business out of playing cards for money but who was judged ‘ on the whole to be doing no worse than any other boy of his age in his particular Position ’ .
27 She was seen talking to a man outside the house by a neighbour at 1pm , then vanished without trace .
28 The fifteen year old was seen talking to the attacker at the Glue Pot pub in Swindon .
29 But if something was slipped into the sherry , if Crumwallis was overheard talking to Frome , it could have been earlier .
30 ‘ It 's because he was found talking to you .
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