Example sentences of "she [be] talking to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Even when she was talking to you or giving you your change , you could feel her smile going somewhere over your shoulder as she took in the whole room behind you . |
| 32 | ‘ Yes , but she 's not hurt at all , she was talking to Mother Francis and to her father . |
| 33 | Constance heard Louise on the telephone and knew she was talking to Nora . |
| 34 | She hated anyone listening when she was talking to Alice . |
| 35 | I 'd passed that fella on the road an' when I looked back she was talking to him ; then when I turned the cart into the alley the next minute , she was flying past , almost throwing the child at me . |
| 36 | " My daughter said she was talking to some man in the street . |
| 37 | She was talking to Prue in the wardrobe — it was Geoffrey 's turn to call the half hour , when Bunny came running up the stairs . |
| 38 | In trying to articulate what she felt so strongly , Clare had forgotten that she was talking to a very sick woman . |
| 39 | She was talking to the niece . |
| 40 | She was talking to Victorine in the kitchen . |
| 41 | Whether she was talking to a pauper or a peer of the realm her interest in the other person was genuine . |
| 42 | Graham started to smile , though he thought the joke itself might be in rather poor taste , but then he was aware of Sara turning quickly , putting her glass on the mantelpiece and looking straight at him , coming closer , her face set in strange hard lines , eyes bright , taking him by the elbow and turning her head as if to emphasise that she was talking to Graham , ignoring Slater , saying , " You do dance , do n't you ? " |
| 43 | Roman Wyatt was n't so easily dismissed ; his strong dark face and amber eyes danced between her and the dress she was designing and materialised when she was talking to customers , but despite everything it was a satisfying day business-wise , and she said goodnight to Myra with a feeling of achievement . |
| 44 | He caught a glimpse of the fair hair and saw that she was talking to someone he recognised as the drummer from the band ; the whole group was there , giving an impromptu concert on tin whistles to the tired hikers sleeping on their rucksacks undaunted by the howl and shriek of the space-invader machines on the other side , a cacophony of mechanical rage that deafened him together with the thin notes of a rebel song . |
| 45 | Erm and when she was talking to me about different people , I 'd never know who they was , because I was never I was never that interested in Bay to er to find out who they was or to remember she 'd point out somebody and say that 's so and so and then when she 'd mention him a couple of days later I 'd go , Who 's that ? |
| 46 | I suddenly realized she was talking to me . |
| 47 | I wondered if she was talking to me for a minute . |
| 48 | She was talking to herself again . |
| 49 | By then she was talking to my back as I headed downstairs again to the communal phone on the wall . |
| 50 | Since she had decided to give Emma a pink headband and Sophie a blue one it was a relief to know , at last , which twin she was talking to . |
| 51 | Everyone , that was , except Shelley Cameron , whom he duped into making herself appear silly , into opening her mouth to reveal her inner self , thinking she was talking to someone else . |
| 52 | She was talking to him . |
| 53 | And she goes up Parker school so she was going , she said to Ange she was talking to Miss tomorrow . |
| 54 | I mean she does n't does n't see a lot of her erm you know and but she and she was talking to her the other day because she does n't like to get involved or say a lot but |
| 55 | Then when she was talking to me someone knocked at the door then Auntie Linda was saying he wo n't bite you , he 's alright . |
| 56 | So , like , we 've got this thing about her , anyway , she was com and she was talking to Fiona today and she was stood next to me , and like in a way , I was laughing at her but I felt so sorry for her cos she really , really stunk ! |
| 57 | you know , this woman that I , goes down the school that talks , who I talked to , she knew from Peterborough and I think she 's German , she 's got an accent , I 'm sure for certain she 's German , anyway she 's got twins in Robert 's class and she was talking to me today and she was telling me her husband moved out to move from Peterborough with his job so I said what does he do ? and she said he 's a scientist , so I said oh is he ? , |
| 58 | The trouble was she was talking to people on camera and you did n't hear anyone laughing or anything embarrassing . |
| 59 | No she 's got Andrew 's er , she was talking to Andrew and Andrew happen to say |
| 60 | And apparently at speech day she was talking to s do you know she had the cheek to say to me she had the cheek to tell somebody to say that I should at least have the decency to go out with someone who 's half looking , half good looking . |