Example sentences of "[be] talking to " in BNC.

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31 I often say jokingly that you make a comment to somebody and you find you 're talking to the world export on expert on whatever it is .
32 And you 're talking to your mate and it 's all just happening by magic .
33 You do n't know who you 're talking to .
34 What do you mean in what s when you say , You do n't know who you 're talking to , yeah have you s what what what sense do you mean that ?
35 We 're talking to anybody and everybody . ’
36 No that 's no problem , except that you must know who you 're talking to .
37 So what sort of printer do you think you 're talking to ?
38 Er and then to contrast this you 've got like the feminist view er well it 's a just reconstruct a lot of these ideas instead of saying that women 's talk was diffident they said it was more considerate , and so the idea that quite often A lot of the features that are in this conversation are n't because women want to be deferential to the men they 're talking to , it 's that they actually want to show some consideration to the turn-taking or the conversational style that 's going on .
39 Er it sort of goes in four ways I mean the fathers talk more directly than the mothers whether or not it 's a boy or a girl they 're talking to .
40 But they 're going to say , if they 're talking to Liz , presumably the trainer as well as a person , you know , what
41 You 're talking to an atheist . ’
42 You can enjoy yourself , be your natural self , and you 'll never even know who you 're talking to . ’
43 There 's only if the person you 're talking to thinks you do n't care , well I mean they 're not you know they 're not going to think very much of you are they ?
44 That 's who you 're talking to , on the seat beside you .
45 Thoroughly bewildered , Seb said , ‘ Boz , this is me you 're talking to , Seb Quilter .
46 Likening the allegations against Gates to those of the October Surprise story Bush said : " You 're talking to somebody who had to prove his innocence — me — on the basis of rumour …
47 I 've tried to slow down my pattern of speech , I 've tried to simplify my vocabulary , and certain methods of when you 're talking to someone you do n't tower over them , you try and squat to his level or you give instructions in certain ways to certain classes .
48 The other thing that tends to throw people the first time they every do ad advocacy is that you 're going to talk to somebody who will not talk to you , who will not s possibly even smile at you , who wo n't give you the usual feedback that we 're u that we 're used to when we 're talking to someone .
49 Chanting 's when you 're talking to other Orcadians in your best English when there 's really no need for it when you just want to show off that you 're .
50 And remember who you 're talking to . ’
51 MS When do you feel you would use Patois and when would you talk as you 're talking to me now ?
52 ‘ But now that you 're tucked up in here , none of your mates will notice that you 're talking to us .
53 Here , we 're talking to potential partners to run a 24 Hour News Service on satellite — but the key part of our strategy is the All News Network on radio .
54 er and we obviously are trying to push S T V and B B C into this as well , but you know and film , we 're talking to film people as well erm , but this is the first er feature film that 's been done so Marcus who normally
55 So you 're you 're talking to Mr Plumber and you do n't even mention our company name
56 When we 're talking to the people on the phone we home in on a thousand pound .
57 Because we 're talking to a lot of professional people who are from all Scots you name it they 're from it .
58 Now one of the areas we can get involved in when we 're talking to our clients is well what do they mean by cancer ?
59 No , it does n't matter what the travel agent is when you 're talking to the corporate
60 Just to make sure that they think that you 're talking to them
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