Example sentences of "[verb] he [be] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four years earlier he told Boswell that the difference between the two was that whereas Rousseau talked nonsense and knew he did — because he talked it so well — Monboddo , who talked an inferior brand , did not know he was talking nonsense . |
| 2 | the children did n't even know he was talking to them . |
| 3 | ‘ How long has he been talking to you like that ? ’ |
| 4 | What are we going I mean we we 've heard also I 'm changing the subject now because that was the the sort of political answer I 'd expect and er I suppose until I get somebody else come on and say he 's talking absolute whatever er I mean I think it is down to the people who live and work with the school . |
| 5 | As he warmed to his theme , George forgot he was talking to one individual , and through him to a huge lay audience . |
| 6 | He took no special notice of her , but she felt welcome , and when he was explaining some method of or reason for the cultivation of certain trees , she sensed he was talking to her as much as to the boys and girls around them . |
| 7 | Often meetings with ‘ advisers ’ can be counter productive and it will be desirable to bring you and , say , Mr [ Chief Executive ] into the picture so that the potential purchaser feels he is talking to a principal . |
| 8 | For a moment I thought he 'd flipped and reckoned he was Napoleon , when it clicked he was talking about Jo . |
| 9 | When she got a little closer she saw he was talking to the -man she 'd had the brush with when she first came in , and she hesitated in her progress . |
| 10 | It took me a moment to realise he was talking to me . |
| 11 | Then , for five minutes at least , he was still again , and then , when he knew he was talking with God , his arm went around my shoulder and there came up from the depth of his heart such petitions for men as I had never heard be-fore . |
| 12 | That 's why sometimes they got mad at him because they knew he was talking to them and about them and they knew that it applied to them . |
| 13 | She knew he was talking about the rescue now . |
| 14 | I suppose he thought he was talking to Sally . |
| 15 | Who does he think he 's talking to ? |
| 16 | Who the hell did he think he was talking to ? |
| 17 | I mean he was talking to Norman over the fence the other day and it sounds like gunfire |
| 18 | And yet they did n't have any signs so I think he 's talking through his hat . |
| 19 | Just in time , he remembered he was talking to a thirty-year-old Captain from Int Corps who was deeply interested in anything that might be happening on his patch . |
| 20 | ‘ I like the quiet of Beckenham , where no one bothers your balls , ’ said Dad , thinking that that was the end of the matter , as it would have been had he been talking to Mum . |
| 21 | So whom had he been talking to ? |
| 22 | I went out thinking he was talking a load of rubbish . |
| 23 | Now going back into the Hebrew scriptures , you 'll find there that this sort of staying awake counsel , an idea was there long before the days of Jesus and the Apostles and people 's lives were involved in its state , even in those days , let's just let us have a look at one , Isaiah forty two eighteen to twenty now this terms it slightly different , but when you look at it and analyze it , you realize he 's talking about exactly the same thing , it 's regarding the nation of Israel who turned away from Jehovah , they were n't doing what they should be doing , or should 've been doing as he 's pleading with them look there , that look here , here you deaf ones , well we know the nation of Israel were n't all physically deaf , they were like we are , perhaps had a few deaf individuals amongst them , but |
| 24 | A stranger that was addressed by him would imagine he was talking to someone else , or if no other person was in the room , would stare about him , wondering what the fellow was talking to . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , I see , ’ said Greg , feeling he was talking about a coterie that was way outside his usual sphere of research . |