Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [coord] [verb] talking " in BNC.

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1 But Svidrigailov ignores the question and starts talking about politics .
2 He strode to the counter and began talking earnestly with a burly man dressed in white house-painter 's overalls .
3 One day my mum sat me on the bed and started talking to me .
4 Then the men-at-arms under the two banners , the King 's and the Earl 's , had waited outside , and the rest had got round the gate and walked talking inside : the King Macbeth with less meat on him , like a man who fed at sea , and Siward of Northumbria the way he always was , with his chest round as a shield under his tunic , and only his hair and beard greyer than you would think for a man not much past fifty .
5 She guided Kim along the street and began talking ,
6 Well when you collected the dues er it meant taking it up to the office every Monday and when you got up to the office and got talking to the officials and such like the interest became greater and er it developed from there that er the workers of thought they should have er should have a representative on the committee .
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