Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Pino starts talking about his ideal woman we know we 're more likely in a fantasy land than a green ginger one . ’ |
| 2 | After the Glasgow gig , the lads got talking to JERRY from the TEENAGE FANCLUB who came back to pay his respects and nick the beer from their rider . |
| 3 | For the moment , buying almost anything in east Germany apart from the groceries involves talking to the Treuhandanstalt , the trust body charged with privatising the territory 's 8,000 enterprises . |
| 4 | I 've got to go listen it 's been lovely t talk to talk talking to you if you could pop in with a bottle of I wanted to try the new Beaujo If anybody 's got it and they come over , just ring the ring the door bell . |
| 5 | In 1979 , she and Branson began talking about establishing an independent label , which Wilson would head , working under the aegis of Virgin and to be called DinDisc . |
| 6 | She reviewed for the Sunday papers and appeared on television in a programme called Talking After Hours , giving her views on art , morals , current affairs . |
| 7 | They ordered dinner , then conversation turned to the play , and for once Marianne lost centre stage as Josh began talking about his own work and the hopes he had for it . |
| 8 | David remembers talking to Isaac Asimov , the science-fiction writer , about God and so on . |
| 9 | He asked us if we were all well and healthy ; three of the Frenchmen started talking to him and the rest of us giggled and joked in English about this ridiculous figure who appeared to be out of touch with everything we were doing . |
| 10 | Sun , he says , ‘ sat on its remote procedure call laurels too long and did n't advance its Open Network Computing technology until OSF started talking about DCE . ’ |
| 11 | Will he confirm that not only has British Telecom invested — this is what the Opposition keep talking about — £20,000 million in new technology , but it has contributed no less than £1,000 million in corporation tax to the Exchequer ? |
| 12 | Plumfield continued talking in a nasal voice and she decided that he must be a demon to live with . |
| 13 | Dreikurs advises parents to restrict talking to friendly conversations and not use it as a disciplinary measure . |
| 14 | A boy began talking with me . |
| 15 | Parent began talking to parent . |
| 16 | Then Sebastian started talking in terms of giving up his job , and Leith had something else to worry about . |
| 17 | Jane kept talking to him , but it sounded remarkably like David |
| 18 | there 's one for you same as Nicky I 've got , here are , there 's another one , different one to that , there 's Nicola 's , leave 'em there I have n't got a Diana , the Queen Mother and the Queen left talking about my girl , my girl |
| 19 | In the ornate portal of a mansion-block department store an old man with buttoned overcoat and brown burnished shoes stood talking at the rain . |
| 20 | After a period spent talking about the Legion and what we thought it was going to be like , he turned to me , shook my hand and wished me good luck . |
| 21 | Major Braithwaite and Julia started talking about horses . |
| 22 | The DUP 's attitude to future talks is unambiguous — either the Dublin government ‘ deals with ’ articles 2 and 3 of the constitution and John Hume stops talking to Gerry Adams or Ian Paisley will not be at the conference table . |
| 23 | Faraday began talking of magnetic fields ( and you 'll remember the school experiments with iron filings around bar magnets ) . |
| 24 | The servants brought platters of over-cooked , rather rancid meat , garnished with herbs , and once they withdrew and the wine circulated , Melford began talking at the top of his voice about sending boys to do men 's work . |
| 25 | Peter M. began talking about farm animals . |
| 26 | Smiling politely , Gina seated herself , seizing the chance to continue talking about art . |
| 27 | The conversationalists stop talking about ‘ money ’ and move on to ‘ sex ’ . |
| 28 | Lorraine Herbert , of Flaxton , Yorkshire , was intrigued when her young daughter Joanne started talking about her friend , Dohti . |
| 29 | Felix 's wife started talking about poetry , which she wrote , while Felix shouted about his last visit to Castro . |
| 30 | Toby Weaver , Deputy Secretary at the Department of Education and Science and a merciless private critic of successive Ministers , found in him ‘ the first person to stop talking about comprehensive reorganisation and to do something about it ’ . |