Example sentences of "they [was/were] talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were talking of the developed countries , of course , perhaps with North America mainly in mind . |
| 2 | They were talking of marriage and were perfectly matched . ’ |
| 3 | They were talking of Mr Monro , who had died , it seems , of whisky and soda many years before : before I was born . |
| 4 | Said they were talking for somebody big . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Every now and again people would step neatly aside while the person they were talking to was sick on the floor . |
| 7 | As Pathfinders they had the extra advantage of being able to use all the latest radar equipment to enable them to see through the layers of cloud , and when they were talking to Met Officers we would hear mysterious references to ‘ Gee ’ and ‘ H2S ’ . |
| 8 | Few people , I discovered , looked directly at a waiter 's eyes , even when they were talking to him . |
| 9 | Have I remembered to do that ? ) sometimes kindly people try so hard to get their message across that one would think that they were talking to a mentally backward five-year-old ! |
| 10 | Any systematic variation must have been the result of the reaction of passers-by to the apparent social class of the person they were talking to , since all other variables were held constant . |
| 11 | They were talking to Perks , the Porter , who was on the other side of the line . |
| 12 | They were talking to a Coptic family , parents and two children . |
| 13 | I was n't sure if they were talking to me or not . |
| 14 | when they were talking to her . |
| 15 | Oh , did you turn it on when they were talking to you ? |
| 16 | Thought it was only a day , and they were talking to somebody else on the ferry who said they did this trip every year did n't they ? |
| 17 | Anyway , er they were talking to her , they explained about that money |
| 18 | Mrs Short : The way they were talking at that meeting George is going to residential school . |
| 19 | Again , er they were talking at the higher reach of our number |
| 20 | Besides it was Colm they were talking about . |
| 21 | Those who afterwards blamed Lambeth 1958 for platitudes did not know what they were talking about . |
| 22 | The other , more disturbing reading is that the Shakespearian phrases are made appropriate because the present situation reinterprets them in such a way that we are forced to wonder if a Burbank-Volupine situation was not just the sort of thing they were talking about all along . |
| 23 | They were talking about him , he was sure of that . |
| 24 | And when he pointed out that these were Irish , not British Trade unions they were talking about , it was sadly admitted that the English disease had poisoned the minds of many impressionable Irish trade unionists and that it would of course take time entirely to eradicate malign English influences from the land of Saints and Scholars . |
| 25 | The two gardeners often speculated over what they were talking about as Shaw and Charlotte circumnavigated the lawn together . |
| 26 | They were talking about having no other actors apart from the three main characters to be played by Hopper , Fonda and Rip Torn — in between Hopper 's directing and Hopper 's scriptwriting and Fonda 's production and Fonda 's co-scriptwriting work . |
| 27 | One minute , there they were talking about polyneuritis , next minute , there she was dying of it . |
| 28 | Can you remember who spoke , as well as what they were talking about ? |
| 29 | I had n't really grasped what they were talking about , but my two successes in Madrid had whetted my appetite . |
| 30 | ‘ So they were talking about us ! ’ said Breeze . |