Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [be] talking to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In trying to articulate what she felt so strongly , Clare had forgotten that she was talking to a very sick woman . |
| 2 | A reader has suggested that the belated realization that you 're talking to an ex-lover is best expressed by the old Tallulah Bankhead crack : ‘ I did n't recognize you with your clothes on . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | Amstrad Plc has confirmed that it is talking to the company about taking on at least one of the products . |
| 5 | At this point I feel honour bound to remind Mister C that he 's talking to a journalist , that what might be an affectionate insult from his friends will probably piss him off massively when he sees it in print . |
| 6 | Patrick could tell by the change in his tone of voice that he was talking to a woman . |
| 7 | He reminded himself that he was talking to the inventor of the firm and decided to prod a bit further . |
| 8 | ‘ That dog 's half mad , ’ Tom said to Willie but found that he was talking to the air for Willie was several yards behind , still trying to keep up , his cheeks flushed with the effort . |
| 9 | But Newbon goes on to explain : ‘ He 's now gone and I 'm talking to the present managing director . |
| 10 | Then she told her sister , who came down in a taxi and I was talking to a woman who would not get off the phone . |
| 11 | Bradley Star is a very nice horse he 's a classy performer this one , Josh Gifford 's horses are in tremendous form and I was talking to the man who who rides him Deckland Murphy he 's my next door neighbour he thinks he 'll run a big race . |
| 12 | Erm I if I was talking to an audience in the United States , you 'd probably have a somewhat different approach cos over there they seem to throw their desktop devices away every two or three years and replace them with brand new technology . |
| 13 | She held out her hand , palm upwards now , and moved her head slowly as she looked at Aggie as if she were talking to a friend who would understand that a cousin of hers had not married beneath her . |
| 14 | For instance , If you are talking to a neighbour and he or she seems in no particular rush , then invite him or her in for an impromptu cup of something . |
| 15 | hang on hang on now if you 're talking to a mathematician and you 're sort of saying cos squared is well erm you know if I integrate that ah I 'm going to get cos so if erm well I 'll just change that there and I 'll fiddle |
| 16 | Well , you do n't need all that , if you 're talking to the public , you 're telling what are basically the facts , and , if asked for your opinion on them , you then decide whether to give your opinion or to say , ‘ Well , no , that 's beyond , that 's beyond my brief . ’ |
| 17 | If you were talking to a prostitute on the beat , you 'd get booked for gossiping — for idling your time . |
| 18 | okay , okay So supposing , supposing I did an interview with you , the , the idea about the pub talk is I 'm trying to get you to use the language as if you were talking to a mate . |
| 19 | No because it was funny cos we were talking to the lady . |
| 20 | They 're going to be confused yes , very confused , I mean on the football pitch you usually get the trainer run man and they 're talking to the footballer and it 's looking at them all the time and he will ask questions , erm what 's your name ? |
| 21 | The people who employ me , the Eastern Health and Social Services Board and the government , in the past have called us in the RVH , and now it all depends who they are talking to — if they are talking to the American delegation we are Marxist revolutionaries and if they are talking to other delegations they have branded us as Provos . |
| 22 | like for a kick off , he went down to the skip last Saturday , the tip , we had , er he was clearing out the back yard , he took some rubble and boxes and things down there , and he was talking to the fellow there they said oh , he said er they were shutting this skip , er they 're moving it down the road and you 'll have to pay , you 'll have to pay to tip your rubbish |
| 23 | ‘ Come on , ’ he says , like he was talking to a little kid . |
| 24 | He interrupted Michael as if he was talking to a little child . |
| 25 | ‘ No Villanuova has ever had a job , that 's why , ’ he replied as if he were talking to a child . |
| 26 | But I was talking to a Prof up there the other day , the actual A level , do you know , it 's pathetic really , I mean when you 're talking about law degrees you want about threes A's at A and now even accepting C's A , A level C's for engineering itself ! |
| 27 | Yeah , the hands , no structure , did you notice he hardly ever looked at the magistrate , although yeah his voice projection was still good because he 's an experienced advocate , but he was talking to the table nearly the whole time . |
| 28 | Because we 're talking to a lot of professional people who are from all Scots you name it they 're from it . |
| 29 | I think she wrote it while I was talking to the doctor , crying my eyes out . |
| 30 | and while he was talking to the woman he saw in the hall an elderly woman , and he said to the woman at the door , is that your mother , she said oh yes she 's with me now , she used to live at Woodbridge . |