Example sentences of "[conj] she [be] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | so obviously she 's assuming that she 's talking to Elvis , but er , she ca n't prove it |
| 2 | I know Ellen Garwood loved to call him Mr Green , and when she would write me letters thinking that Mr Green was her real son , I got the impression that she was talking to me on the telephone underneath her bed , about the fun she was having . |
| 3 | In trying to articulate what she felt so strongly , Clare had forgotten that she was talking to a very sick woman . |
| 4 | 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 ? " |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Of , one of the words that she was talking about , people have started using wicked for a normal phrase . |
| 7 | One of the ladies that she was talking about the dogs she said Freda you see . |
| 8 | that she was talking about |
| 9 | ‘ She just sat on my bed and she was talking . |
| 10 | She was watching him closely and she was talking too much . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | 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 ? , |
| 14 | when she , this man was n't very well on , she saw him up at her window and she saw he was n't very well on the other side of the road and she sent down to ask him to come in and she gave him a cup of tea and everything and she was talking |
| 15 | Yes , she was on her own and she was talking |
| 16 | She 'll come about , that was about five years ago and and she was talking about the schock and half , half the panel er da did n't even know , they could n't even spell it . |
| 17 | I was , I was alright at the weekend , that 's my Darlington meeting and she was talking to one of the boys erm the one that lives at Filey . |
| 18 | she said cos she were talking , she knew tape were still running and she were pretending to say that she did n't say I could do it but she did |
| 19 | I carry on brushing and act like she 's talking back to me . |
| 20 | She held out her hand , palm upwards now , and moved her head slowly as she looked at Aggie as if she were talking to a friend who would understand that a cousin of hers had not married beneath her . |
| 21 | She stared into the camera as if she was talking to it . |
| 22 | He did n't answer , just went on staring at her as if she was talking gibberish . |
| 23 | I wondered if she was talking to me for a minute . |
| 24 | Zeinab would get emotionally involved if she was talking about breakfast . ’ |
| 25 | But she was talking into his shoulder . |
| 26 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 27 | If she fiddles with her buttons while she 's talking , then she may feel threatened . |
| 28 | ‘ So , ’ said Milsom patiently , ‘ what was the doctor doing while she was talking ? ’ |
| 29 | Luke had disappeared while she was talking to Godfrey . |
| 30 | Oddly enough , it was not during one of these silences but while she was talking that her eyes closed and her shallow breathing became deeper . |