Example sentences of "talking to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was in talking to a fellow tourist at the airport on the return journey that we really came down to earth . |
| 2 | The rumours were further fuelled by a general statement Conran had previously made about the responsibilities of a group chairman when talking to a journalist . |
| 3 | It 's like talking to a brick wall ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Come on , ’ he says , like he was talking to a little kid . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's got a knife ! ’ said Gazzer again , slowly this time , as if talking to a child . |
| 6 | Alicia says you should spend time talking to a breeder before diving in to buy one , to be sure it is the breed for you . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is like talking to a child . |
| 9 | It was fascinating to hear hir talk ; pretending first one minute you were talking to a girl , and then the next , a boy . |
| 10 | On the third evening , I was sitting drinking alone and started talking to a man who offered to walk me back to the hotel . |
| 11 | At one point in 1987 I was bowling up the M6 talking to a colleague in London on my ‘ hands-off ’ Cellnet phone — it had a microphone in front of me on the visor . |
| 12 | I got talking to a Faber editor I knew slightly . |
| 13 | Mr Hagger and his partner , Dave Jennings , had been talking to a Birmingham broker about raising several million pounds of working capital . |
| 14 | In the first , a canvasser is talking to a farmer 's wife . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 ’ . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ 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 ’ . ’ |
| 17 | It also advises talking to a number of franchisees in the proposed franchise . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're talking to a bankrupt — almost ! ’ he told me yesterday lunchtime . |
| 19 | Conoco estimates total reserves in the area could reach 3 trillion cubic feet and is talking to a number of companies , including Lasmo , Sovereign and Atlantic Richfield about tying in their undeveloped discoveries . |
| 20 | ‘ You are talking to a Minister of the Crown , in case you 've forgotten . |
| 21 | So we get two things , we get a very good new personality , and secondly , an intelligent personality , and , therefore , and this is an important part of the strategy , she gets out of the other archaeologists she 's talking to a much higher level of interaction and intellectual interchange than she would if she were simply a standard presenter . |
| 22 | Second Lieutenant Kenneth Keith of the Gordon Highlanders looked over the parapet of his trench on Christmas Eve and was astonished to see one of his soldiers talking to a German soldier in No Man 's Land . |
| 23 | The keeper was standing at the door talking to a stout man with a stick . |
| 24 | Walking through the lobby of Hotel Vancouver one day I happened to see Shelly talking to a smart looking young lady and when I joined them he introduced his assistant , Hellen Semmens . |
| 25 | It was quite easy , for she was standing at the front of the Council House talking to a large policeman and when Dad and I reached them he said , ‘ There you are Mrs. Maidment , I knew he 'd turn up like a bad penny ! ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | If you were talking to a prostitute on the beat , you 'd get booked for gossiping — for idling your time . |
| 28 | I was talking to a woman and she was saying that young people were n't the same in her day . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Talking to a tobacconist I found that he has some women customers and a range of smaller pipes for them to choose from . |