Example sentences of "[pers pn] be talk to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am talking to a man who has seen things I can only imagine . |
| 2 | I 'm talking to a wall ! |
| 3 | I was talking to a friend of mine actually on Monday who is erm parti partially Indian and come from India and from Calcutta and she is high caste but she 's a Catholic as well so she 's her attitude 's different she 's lived in England most of her life but she ca n't get over the attitude of some of her relatives in India to the poor because they 're lower caste . |
| 4 | Several weeks later I was talking to a friend who lives in the next town . |
| 5 | Yeah well I was talking , I was talking to a friend and they said that , you know , there 's some homophobic attacks and some of them just happen to occur because people are walking in a gay area |
| 6 | I was talking to a lady about them |
| 7 | I was talking to a screw one day and she was telling me that when she 'd wanted to get work in prison she thought she 'd be there to help prisoners . |
| 8 | Just recently I was talking to a man who had crossed the world to see someone for this very reason . |
| 9 | I was talking to a man with a stammer who was training to be an estate agent when Gillian was brought across by the organiser . |
| 10 | I was talking to a guy here now , erm who comes to the centre , about er two weeks ago . |
| 11 | I was talking to a woman and she was saying that young people were n't the same in her day . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I was talkin' to a girl in the galley . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ You are talking to a Minister of the Crown , in case you 've forgotten . |
| 17 | When you are talking to a teacher in school , you speak and act in a different way from when you are talking to your friends out of school . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | Alice , you 're talking to a woman who 's seen a skipfest on the Raven of October . |
| 20 | You 're talking to a tape recorder now Em ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was fascinating to hear hir talk ; pretending first one minute you were talking to a girl , and then the next , a boy . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If you were talking to a prostitute on the beat , you 'd get booked for gossiping — for idling your time . |
| 25 | Whether she was talking to a pauper or a peer of the realm her interest in the other person was genuine . |
| 26 | Newtown , Pennsylvania-based graphics chip maker Tseng Labs Inc says it is in discussions that might lead to it entering the business of development and production of audio chips : ‘ We 're talking to a lot of people in the sound area , both engineers and companies — because we do n't have any basic sound technology , we 're looking to acquire that either through people or maybe an acquisition , ’ Tseng vice-chairman Jack Gibbons explained to Reuter . |
| 27 | Because we 're talking to a lot of professional people who are from all Scots you name it they 're from it . |
| 28 | We were talking to a woman in the shop over this bathroom and he said , tt , let's make a . |
| 29 | ‘ No Villanuova has ever had a job , that 's why , ’ he replied as if he were talking to a child . |
| 30 | Often meetings with ‘ advisers ’ can be counter productive and it will be desirable to bring you and , say , Mr [ Chief Executive ] into the picture so that the potential purchaser feels he is talking to a principal . |