Example sentences of "talking to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Britain had played a positive role by supporting the Namibia settlement and by talking to South Africa rather than trying to ostracise it , she added . |
| 32 | You can not influence people without talking to them , and that is why I saw President ( FW ) de Klerk and Mr ( Barend ) du Plessis . |
| 33 | More seriously , his understated , meditative style is lost : the impression is that his timing is fine , the audience 's is all wrong : ‘ I was talking to someone at a party the other night … he happened to mention that he was reading Virginia Woolf 's letters . |
| 34 | Union Assurance de Paris , which has 19.2 per cent , is said to be talking to Sun 's other big shareholder , the South African controlled Trans-Atlantic Holdings . |
| 35 | I was talking to Al Davis ( the team 's owner ) and he said , ‘ There 's no pressure on you to do anything . ’ |
| 36 | Maybe without fully recognising it , the government has , in fact , started talking to the ANC — for if there is one thing Mr Mandela has made clear throughout his long incarceration , it is his unwavering allegiance to the movement , whose foremost leader he remains . |
| 37 | Page 19 Car link : American car maker Chrysler is talking to Mitsubishi of Japan about setting up manufacturing plants in Europe . |
| 38 | BSB is also believed to be talking to Ford in the UK about providing communications with its dealers and to the Financial Times about a business service for large companies . |
| 39 | It 's them you should be talking to . |
| 40 | Yer not losing out on anything by him not talking to you . |
| 41 | You 're not missing out on boys like that not talking to ya . |
| 42 | In talking to ordinary policewomen , we found many themselves adopt notions of gender differences in order to explain the marginalization of their duties , although others prefer this kind of work simply because it makes it easier to manage their difficult and conflicting roles as policewoman , wife , and mother . |
| 43 | I was talking to the boys [ members of the RUC ] and one says to me , ‘ When do you start work , later on ? ’ |
| 44 | You never get talking to people , it 's ridiculous . |
| 45 | Therefore , they try to conceal the fact that they are talking to people , sometimes by giving the impression through non-verbal behaviour that they are issuing directions , or by calling at their homes . |
| 46 | I found myself talking to someone and watching him go to sleep on his feet . |
| 47 | The Officer was talking to two gunners who appeared to be Polish judging by their accents . |
| 48 | Outside the farm , I could see the unmistakable figure of Lord Lovat standing on the grass talking to two other senior Officers . |
| 49 | ‘ Next week some time , ’ answered the Scouse , ‘ This is a fact , he continued One of the staff at the big house overheard the Brigade Major talking to the Medical Officer . ’ |
| 50 | A comrade is talking to you one moment and is gone the next , either blasted beyond recognition or seriously wounded . |
| 51 | But it was in talking to a fellow tourist at the airport on the return journey that we really came down to earth . |
| 52 | It would be pleasant to have a film of curate Ramsey talking to the young architects of sand-castles . |
| 53 | On his walks he could sometimes be observed waving his hat about and talking to himself . |
| 54 | But the girl remembered Ramsey taking the evacuees round him in the children 's corner , and sitting on one of the low chairs meant for a child , and talking to them naturally and with an obvious pleasure . |
| 55 | From talking to local promoters we decide the level at which the band is to work . |
| 56 | Before I even had a chance to talk to him he was all round the shop talking to everyone . |
| 57 | But I got talking to one of them and he told me he 'd just come out of prison where he 'd done time for soliciting . |
| 58 | Marty and Jean who ran Granny Takes A Trip were mates of Malcolm 's and they all used to meet up after work in the pub Sometimes Nick would be there too and we got talking to him . |
| 59 | So it was Bernie we got talking to in the pub about a name for the band . |
| 60 | The rumours were further fuelled by a general statement Conran had previously made about the responsibilities of a group chairman when talking to a journalist . |