Example sentences of "i [be] talking to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am talking to a man who has seen things I can only imagine . |
| 2 | After half an hour 's dedicated sales pitch , I find I am talking to a devoted collector of Hummel figurines . |
| 3 | Whether I am talking to the residents of Moss Side in Manchester , or Scotswood in Newcastle , I am left in no doubt that they dislike their local councillors and councils as much as they dislike the Government . |
| 4 | I 'm talking to a wall ! |
| 5 | And the person that goes into the radio studio and thinks , ‘ I 'm talking to a hundred thousand people ’ or something like that , is doomed , because the voice and approach you use is a bit like the voice and approach I have now , I 'm sort of talking to a largish group of people . |
| 6 | I 'm talking to the dog . ’ |
| 7 | But Newbon goes on to explain : ‘ He 's now gone and I 'm talking to the present managing director . |
| 8 | Watch him wa I 'm talking to the lady next door be careful of him he 's he 's Stuart that 's Stuart yeah very careful of him . |
| 9 | You 'll , you 'll see , I 'm talking to the Three-Nineties , er you 'll see a bit of a change since you were here before . |
| 10 | No , I 'm talking to the cat . |
| 11 | No I 'm talking to the microphone |
| 12 | We saw , we saw one or two others that were involved , that were involved in it , and er I were talking to the , one of the young producers that were there and er and I said if you 're short of some ac actors I said me and my mate will be actors you know , oh she said you 're dressed just right I 'll tell ya |
| 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 talking to a woman and she was saying that young people were n't the same in her day . |
| 15 | Just recently I was talking to a man who had crossed the world to see someone for this very reason . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I was talking to a guy here now , erm who comes to the centre , about er two weeks ago . |
| 22 | Several weeks later I was talking to a friend who lives in the next town . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | I was talking to a lady about them |
| 25 | I was talking to a civil servant in the Ministry of erm Energy the other day , and he said that he reckoned out of several hundred people working there there were about fifteen people who had a scientific or engineering background , and therefore were able to talk with some degree of expertise perhaps and certainly knowledge about the matters that they were discussing . |
| 26 | ‘ I was talking to an old man about death and he said , ‘ You know I 've not been able to talk to my wife . |
| 27 | He admitted his language was ‘ somewhat clumsy ’ but declared : ‘ I was talking to an unhappy young man — not the world at large . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Apologies , my dear fellow , ’ said Mr Singleton , ‘ momentarily I failed to appreciate I was talking to an artist . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I was talking to an old man in my constituency only last week . |