Example sentences of "[noun] be talking to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Human possums avoid conflict by agreeing with whichever side is talking to them at the time . |
| 2 | Granddad 's talking to you |
| 3 | Just a minute mummy 's talking to me . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought that one of the most interesting things about the Manson case was how they thought that The Beatles were talking to them , and that they thought The Beatles were the four horsemen of the apocalypse mentioned in the Bible . |
| 6 | while the editor is talking to us . |
| 7 | As Maggie 's talking to me I mean you can see like my here I mean I 've got all sorts , as you would use that , those pages for , there 's notes as I 'm going through of things that we were doing and er the university and , and everything like that and there 's other parts of it that , I mean the , the things that you would come back to and elaborate more on |
| 8 | Miss Lucchesi was talking to me about fingering . " |
| 9 | ‘ You know when Simon was talking to you yesterday , in the arcades ? ’ he asked her . |
| 10 | As he said this , he noticed that Cowslip had joined them and that Strawberry was talking to him quietly . |
| 11 | Even the cameraman ignored Milstone 's command of ‘ Roll 'em ’ when Brando was talking to him . |
| 12 | Yes , well , as a matter of fact er , the moderator was talking to me on the telephone |
| 13 | he broke in rails because some silly man was talking to him in Wales ! |
| 14 | Mrs Goreng was talking to him quite normally . |
| 15 | Albert was talking to them as they waited to leave , and the boy had a large rubber ball that he would insist on throwing about in the compartment . |
| 16 | One chink of light had appeared , however : Steve was talking to her . |
| 17 | Steve was talking to her that much . |
| 18 | Right , if you just want to come out of there and we 'll just have a look at the plot of the residuals , if you plot the residuals the test for serial correlation there well the test for serial correlation , right , and try and determine whether there 's a auto regressive structure to those parameters and I think Steve was talking to you about er auto regressions , so what the computer is doing essentially , it is getting the residuals from the model raised and it 's regressing them right on the residuals in the previous period , right , and it 's testing whether this parameter row , right , is significantly different from zero right , now if this is , if row is significantly different from zero , let's say it 's nought point six , that implies the residuals in T are not independent of the residuals in T minus one . |
| 19 | Lula and Claire were talking to her , a sort of duet : Lula was persuasive and chatty , Claire chimed in with sharp ideological comments or scornful snorts : hard cop , soft cop . |
| 20 | Cos Tim 's talking to me as well , and I 'm not being that clever . |
| 21 | ‘ Mrs Hodge : ‘ Well , sir , when ‘ e 's talking to a Protectionist , ‘ e 's a Free Trader , and when ‘ e 's talking to a Free Trader , ‘ e 's Protectionist , and when ‘ e 's talking to me , ‘ e 's a raving lunatic ’ . ’ |
| 22 | The Thing was talking to them . |
| 23 | ‘ At Reading , ’ recounts John , ‘ the girl from the Clothes Show was talking to us . |
| 24 | ‘ At Reading the girl form the Clothes Show was talking to us and she said , We want to do a feature on you , we want to do an anti-fashion thing ’ JOHN END |
| 25 | ‘ At Reading , ’ recounts John , ‘ the girl from the Clothes Show was talking to us . |
| 26 | ‘ At Reading the girl form the Clothes Show was talking to us and she said , We want to do a feature on you , we want to do an anti-fashion thing ’ JOHN END |
| 27 | Mum , ’ Juliet looked into her mother 's face , ‘ I was in the ward on Tuesday morning while the doctor was talking to you . |
| 28 | Andrew , Chris is talking to you ! |
| 29 | Dad was talking to her . |
| 30 | Wycliffe was talking to them in his little office , where the Salvation Army band had once stored their instruments . |