Example sentences of "[be] [adv] talking to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We are constantly talking to the press try and persuade them to give us more coverage .
2 " But I 'm not talking to the top of your head .
3 ‘ I 'm not talking to the cat .
4 It is now talking to the Cambridge University Press here and is seeking deals with other European publishers too .
5 By the time they got there he was already talking to the watchman .
6 They 're gon na catch me ’ and he was just talking to the film crew and not the camera and was not conscious of the fact there was probably 14 million people watching it .
7 After checking that I was not talking to the media , I asked what the nature of her enquiry was , and she proceeded to furnish me with the facts .
8 On entering the house , the defendant said that he was unhappy at Paulette 's having married Zaidie and that he was going to obtain a copy of the marriage certificate and would shoot Paulette if she had married while she was still talking to the defendant ( the date of the marriage was actually 10 December 1986 ) .
9 About half of the sixty-five guests had wandered through into the lecture hall , but since Anthea was due to give the address and she was still talking to the professor , there was time to spare .
10 We issued a statement pointing out that she was n't talking to the kidnappers in Beirut , and sent a letter to that effect to every MP , but it was a busy time and no-one really noticed .
11 I was recently talking to the mother of a four year old boy about his progress at learning his letters , when I realized just how responsible and vulnerable she felt about his lack of progress , and that started me thinking about the educational process and the pressures that we put on ourselves and our children to succeed .
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