Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] he [was/were] talking [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I mean he was talking to Norman over the fence the other day and it sounds like gunfire
2 He took no special notice of her , but she felt welcome , and when he was explaining some method of or reason for the cultivation of certain trees , she sensed he was talking to her as much as to the boys and girls around them .
3 She knew he was talking about the rescue now .
4 When she got a little closer she saw he was talking to the -man she 'd had the brush with when she first came in , and she hesitated in her progress .
5 That 's why sometimes they got mad at him because they knew he was talking to them and about them and they knew that it applied to them .
6 Who the hell did he think he was talking to ?
7 I suppose he thought he was talking to Sally .
8 Then , for five minutes at least , he was still again , and then , when he knew he was talking with God , his arm went around my shoulder and there came up from the depth of his heart such petitions for men as I had never heard be-fore .
9 For a moment I thought he 'd flipped and reckoned he was Napoleon , when it clicked he was talking about Jo .
10 Just in time , he remembered he was talking to a thirty-year-old Captain from Int Corps who was deeply interested in anything that might be happening on his patch .
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