Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] talking " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes I saw her there , singing or talking quietly to herself , and I thought perhaps she could see the people in her secret world of Gondal , and was talking to them .
2 You turn it on and it tapes people singing or talking .
3 Talk so can you spell walking and talking ?
4 Walking and talking .
5 It was amazing to watch him walking and talking .
6 I could see through slitted eyes many people who had the comfort of being three-dimensional , walking and talking words that I knew .
7 For all our , walking and talking and hard work .
8 Normally , when the pubs let out — pubs on every corner , just drinking dens , they used to let out and they 'd all be full of drink just yapping and talking .
9 They 'd dress up then and go out to dinner to some restaurant , laughing and talking together as if nothing at all had happened . ’
10 They walked slowly along one wall , laughing and talking and only incidentally looking at the eccentric pictures .
11 a strangely good baby , always laughing and talking to himself in his own fashion , kicking in his pram , talking to the trees .
12 Already they could see students in duffle coats , laughing and talking .
13 He subsequently saw them laughing and talking with the guard before the train left Birmingham and described both youngsters as well dressed ; the boy was wearing a school uniform of yellow and brown with cap to match and scarf .
14 They were laughing and talking and putting black square things to their faces , pointing them at the eagles , and clicking them .
15 Two nurses in crisp white came down the main steps , laughing and talking , hurrying away .
16 Helen thought of the dark woman ; in the mind 's eye she saw her — laughing and talking with Giles .
17 The neighbours who often sat there in the hot evenings laughing and talking had gone out .
18 Outside the house there were a lot of people who were smoking , laughing and talking .
19 I could hear them laughing and talking .
20 ‘ You are very much mistaken , ’ he muttered , looking beyond them and keeping a close eye on his sister and Mitch as they rode along laughing and talking .
21 Maggie did see , and she also saw the way Candace clung to Felipe 's arm , laughing and talking as if her husband did not exist .
22 They were laughing and talking as if nobody were there at all but the two of them and she could see the source of Felipe 's annoyance .
23 Falconer was quiet and secretive but seemed in very good humour , laughing and talking rather garrulously .
24 It cuts down on people TAKING OVER Taking turns , with equal time spent on listening and talking , helps stop one person dominating the conversation .
25 The courses have a highly practical content and aim to get you listening and talking as much as possible .
26 The courses have a highly practical content and aim to get you listening and talking as much as possible .
27 She is back in the house that she is always remembering and talking endlessly about , she has her precious Miss Cress .
28 He spent hours on the beach with Grégoire , quite alone , just swimming and talking and playing .
29 He was smoking and talking simultaneously , taking little melodramatic puffs between phrases .
30 But it was n't those balls that were important to me , and timid undemanding Jenny could n't compete with Liza 's inspired experimentation , nor a damp drab flop on the Iffley Road with the joss-stick-scented nest lined with Liza 's fauvist daubs where she and I lay after our bouts of dirty love , toking and talking , turning the world inside out .
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