Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [noun] talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were happy to run the school jumble sale , and the weekly book club meeting in the staff room , with parents and children talking about books , was a delight . |
| 2 | And you 're on the phone for ages and ages talking about A B and C , and all a sudden you think I can smell something burning . |
| 3 | I spent the days and nights talking with tenants , trade unionists , blacks and whites , punks and skinheads , single parents and old-age pensioners , their neighbours , workmates and relatives — anybody I could lay my hands on . |
| 4 | By a quarter past five at night , the streets of Sligo were full , with people pouring out of workplaces and standing talking on pavements everywhere . |
| 5 | You will find organisations who employ both men and women talking about exercises in man power planning , discussing the performance of their sales men not their salesforce , and having meetings chaired by chair men . |
| 6 | He had decided it was not a subject for honest men , and had gone on to history , where he had developed a real interest in local history and a talent for getting old working-class men and women talking about the customs and social conditions of their childhood . |
| 7 | Passing lamp-lit windows through which they could see sleeping Japanese soldiers and men talking in small groups , they had gone as far as a machine-gun post among the buildings — probably part of the anti-aircraft defences-when a Japanese soldier came up . |