Example sentences of "[verb] be talking to " in BNC.
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| 31 | For a long moment their glances clashed like swords , then there was a shout behind her , and she turned to see the two men he 'd been talking to and a short stout woman in a dark overall running towards them . |
| 32 | ‘ She was complaining at not being able to get through because my number was engaged and I said I 'd been talking to you . |
| 33 | I did a double-take before I realized he 'd been talking to me . |
| 34 | Of course , he 'd been talking to Maria Luisa ; he had nothing to say to Steve . |
| 35 | After I 'd been talking to him about leaving . |
| 36 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 37 | And she 'd been talking to him for about half an hour and well er her son had come up |
| 38 | I 'd been talking to someone about the effects of music , cos there 's a couple of court cases going on . |
| 39 | The working groups are currently on working on that , and they , my colleagues I assume are talking to the the officers of the Social Services about that , what is happening , but the final outcome has yet to appear . |
| 40 | He might have been talking to the sheep when he said softly : |
| 41 | Ellwood could have been talking to a simpleton . |
| 42 | " She could n't have been talking to Rome , " Seddon said . |
| 43 | ‘ We agreed she must have been talking to someone … ’ |
| 44 | But he might just as well have been talking to himself . |
| 45 | Oh , yes , but they 're going on that 's to sake of free , at the moment so the last thing that they 're interested in doing is talking to me about if I know what I 'm doing . |
| 46 | The two are believed to have been talking to Republicans to see if a different kind of package could be put together . |
| 47 | Mr Hagger and his partner , Dave Jennings , had been talking to a Birmingham broker about raising several million pounds of working capital . |
| 48 | The two who had been talking to me went with the others back to their vehicle . |
| 49 | ‘ If what this girl says is true , you 'll find proof of their guilt in the car , sergeant , ’ said the stout man who had been talking to the keeper . |
| 50 | She had been talking to Lapointe , which no doubt explained why she had misheard . |
| 51 | When he did not return for quite a while , she guessed they had been talking to each other about her . |
| 52 | She could n't remember who she had been talking to . |
| 53 | I stayed in the bottom class , but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class . |
| 54 | He guessed at once that his son had been talking to Yuan , and even though the casual disclosure of information had been prearranged , he regretted the unavoidability of the confrontation which was about to occur . |
| 55 | He had spent most of the morning frowning , except when he had been talking to Sir William Paice and others . |
| 56 | All the time Ward had been talking to the receptionist his head had been half turned to the street doors , which were wide open , framing an incessant movement of people in an iridescent haze of hot sunlight . |
| 57 | A woman had been talking to him , but she had gone away . |
| 58 | He had been talking to a tall girl with white-blonde hair , but suddenly he turned his head slightly and looked straight at Maria , and every muscle in her body clenched in furious , shocked resistance . |
| 59 | She had been talking to him only a few seconds before , but he was gone . |
| 60 | The other girl who had been talking to Blake walked over to the Doctor . |