Example sentences of "talking on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found him at his desk , downing vodka , talking on the telephone to Susan , telling her soothingly , ‘ No , I 'm not drinking any more . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The head of our company is most displeased with Mr Goode and me , ’ Cave said in June , talking on the telephone to an Iranian who was unenthusiastic about weapons prices that had been marked up 300 percent ; ‘ He said if they do n't want to deal , break it off . ’ |
| 3 | She found him in Reception talking on the telephone . |
| 4 | We had been talking on the National Consumer Council a bit about the lack of accountability in broadcasting , and I had also , as part of my Advisory Council work , directed and written up the first major study about adults , educational experience and needs — two and a half thousand interviews all over England and Wales . |
| 5 | I was soon talking on the telephone to Engelberger in Danbury , Connecticut . |
| 6 | They joined a group of women sitting talking on the bank . |
| 7 | Talking on the telephone |
| 8 | COMMON SENSE TALKING ON THE BIG ISSUES OF THE DAY |
| 9 | The signals were at caution and the train crew were talking on the level-crossing . |
| 10 | Keeping people talking on the phone . |
| 11 | A row follows after Diana finds Charles talking on the phone to old flame Camilla Parker Bowles . |
| 12 | I remember Lauren Bacall talking on the show about her idea of a real man . |
| 13 | Nobel Prizewinner Professor Brian Josephson , a Cambridge physicist , believes there may be similarities between healing and telepathy as examples of non-local interaction — that is , causing an effect without visible physical means ( local interaction would involve conventional energy/matter interacting , like talking on the telephone ) . |
| 14 | If they had not been in the habit of seeing each other so often , at least once a week and sometimes more , talking on the phone every day , that appalling suggestion might have driven a bolt through their friendship , eventually destroying it . |
| 15 | He say , I stand beside her , hear her talking on the telephone ; her boss call her , say come to work . |
| 16 | Again as if she read my thoughts , she said : " After I heard you talking on the phone , I nipped out and bought this — you can pay me back , if you like , Mother 's ruin . |
| 17 | Mr Ross was talking on the telephone in his office . |
| 18 | ‘ You know what you 've got , not talking on the telephone , ’ the foreman said . |
| 19 | And Jacko Roberts was talking on the telephone to Dalziel . |
| 20 | Back in his own office , he found Cashman talking on the cellular phone he carried wherever he went . |
| 21 | She could still hear the faint murmurs of Tom Russell and his sister talking on the veranda , and it distracted her from the real purpose of this time alone , which was not to go on reliving that moment when his hand had covered her own , but to obediently follow his suggestion of giving herself time to fully think this through . |
| 22 | But talking on the telephone is no substitute for holding the little girl Libby loves so much . |
| 23 | We were talking on the subject of erm divorce in in yesterday morning 's programme and this idea that erm the the whole procedure of getting a divorce som er would be speeded up and there 'd be something called , No faults divorce , so that people would n't have to point accusatory fingers at one another . |
| 24 | ‘ Did I hear you talking on the phone last night ? ’ my father said . |
| 25 | They did n't give any details about the Leeds match ( or I may have missed them as I was simultaneously talking on the phone ) . |
| 26 | A natural interpretation ( by an observer or analyst ) of this deictic set-up is that A and B are talking on the telephone . |
| 27 | There I was , talking to people asleep this morning and I woke to the dulcet tones of talking on the radio . |
| 28 | As she worked , adding to the pitifully small pile , she could hear Travis talking on the radio behind her . |
| 29 | Frankie 's demonstrated his relaxed style by talking on the intercom installed throughout the new residential complex he opened in Milton Keynes . |
| 30 | I mean they were talking on the video about profit margins , but he did n't company he was supposed to achieve , presumably there was a minimum for all three of them , so What else would you do with Bernard ? |