Example sentences of "i was talking to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ambulance to Raigmore Hospital , Inverness and a few hours later I was talking to the consultant . |
| 2 | More seriously , his understated , meditative style is lost : the impression is that his timing is fine , the audience 's is all wrong : ‘ I was talking to someone at a party the other night … he happened to mention that he was reading Virginia Woolf 's letters . |
| 3 | I was talking to Al Davis ( the team 's owner ) and he said , ‘ There 's no pressure on you to do anything . ’ |
| 4 | I was talking to the boys [ members of the RUC ] and one says to me , ‘ When do you start work , later on ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I was talking to him in the post office . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I was talking to Sister Oliver . |
| 7 | ‘ I was talking to him this morning , ’ he said . |
| 8 | ‘ I was talking to him this morning , ’ Richard said again , wondering why he could not control his shivering . |
| 9 | ‘ I was talking to Mrs Jones today and she said — ‘ ) Neither felt the need of talking , for the sake of talking . |
| 10 | ‘ I was talking to Mr Sugden . |
| 11 | Mind you , I did n't tell her I was talking to SHE magazine immediately afterwards but I do n't think she would have minded because SHE readers are different , are n't they ? |
| 12 | I was talking to Ursula Andress the other day about toy boys . |
| 13 | I was talking to Mrs Bean in the hardware this morning . |
| 14 | I was talking to Seb about it and he says he does eleven . |
| 15 | Some forty-five years after my visit to Preston I was talking to a business acquaintance who , although having been based in Southampton for many years , had never lost his Lancashire accent . |
| 16 | If I was talking to you on the street and you had asked me where such-and-such a street was , that was all right . |
| 17 | If I was talking to you as my pal , I 'd get done for idling my time . |
| 18 | I was talking to this other lad across the road — we were due to go off duty at two and we were just hanging about before making our way down to the station — there was no relief for us on that shift . |
| 19 | I was talking to a woman and she was saying that young people were n't the same in her day . |
| 20 | ‘ I was talking to an old man about death and he said , ‘ You know I 've not been able to talk to my wife . |
| 21 | I was talking to Joe Asnett in Berkeley yesterday . |
| 22 | I was talking to Mike McFarlane when Allan came up and interrupted us and spoke to Mac , looking me over but not saying anything to me . |
| 23 | But I was talking to myself . |
| 24 | I was talking to her at a women 's group meeting — we were playing records . |
| 25 | During this time Shadwell had me concentrate on the animal noises I was to make between the dialogue , so that when , for instance , I was talking to Kaa the slithering snake , who saves Mowgli 's life , I had to hiss . |
| 26 | Just recently I was talking to a man who had crossed the world to see someone for this very reason . |
| 27 | I was talking to Terry Williams ( drums , ex-Man and Rockpile ) about it in Cardiff the other day , because Terry would be great for something like that . |
| 28 | I was talking to Marty W. recently about ‘ Good Rockin' , and while he agreed it was both enjoyable and extremely well done , he confided that something which did n't come over was the almost unbelievable youth of everyone involved back then . |
| 29 | I was talking to that presenter of that alternative-politics programme — what 's his name ? — and he said that he 'd got annoyed with a colleague because she criticized his pink bow-tie . |
| 30 | ‘ I was talking to the spider ! ’ |