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

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1 ‘ The first sign of madness , ’ joke people who have been caught talking to themselves , confident of course that it is not .
2 ‘ You 've made sure that I am seen talking to you at the time of this man 's arrest in a public place .
3 Mr Rowse refused to see Rhoda any more because she 'd been seen talking to Young Catholics Against Witchcraft .
4 ‘ You are to start talking to him , Miss Quinn .
5 Er so much so , you see that er er er people who did have employment in the industry would not , would not be seen talking to left-wing Labour party people , or members of the Communist party , because they readily understood , you know , that here was a risk that they were running , whereby they may indeed lo er er lose their employment .
6 But I did n't want to be seen talking to her in the office , so I should have to wait until she got home .
7 Why should n't I be seen talking to an old mate , eh ? ’
8 He 's just as likely to be found talking to a six-strong student society in Bangor as addressing 500 top Earth scientists in Washington ; he will have a drink with ( and on ) me just as readily ( or so he makes it appear ) as he will have lunch with ( and no doubt on ) the director of the US National Science Foundation ; if he 's not corresponding with some editor over some esoteric point of science , he 's trying to persuade the high-ups at the European Space Agency to do something adventurous in planetology for a change .
9 so I 'll be sitting talking to Donna , cos Donna , Helen and Jenny be sitting in one group with Sarah , they 'll be chatting away and I 'll be sitting in the middle , sitting on
10 We are left talking to each other almost as if we had met before .
11 And you were seen talking to your pal Jordan who is on the case .
12 In Birmingham , Alabama , you could be banished from the city for being seen talking to a Communist , which was held to be committing a public nuisance .
13 The two girls he had noticed earlier were standing talking to some other girls .
14 While O'Neill would have shared some of those views , he was more concerned with the future than with the past and he deliberately set about ending Ulster 's ‘ petty apartheid ’ by visiting Catholic schools ( no previous Ulster premier had ever set foot in one ) , being photographed talking to priests and nuns , and meeting a cardinal .
15 She 's stopped talking to me .
16 ‘ Okay , ’ I say , when Frank 's finished talking to me as though I 'm a Sun reader .
17 Even Nazi Who Escaped justice At Nuremberg , at number 42 , was seen talking to people in a high , jovial voice , that only increased his resemblance to a Gestapo officer .
18 This was bad luck on Helga , who got drunk with an American soldier and was not allowed to forget it , and on Hildegard , who was taken in by the police when she was seen talking to an ex-convict , but worked in favour of Martin , who made quite a business out of playing cards for money but who was judged ‘ on the whole to be doing no worse than any other boy of his age in his particular Position ’ .
19 She was seen talking to a man outside the house by a neighbour at 1pm , then vanished without trace .
20 The fifteen year old was seen talking to the attacker at the Glue Pot pub in Swindon .
21 But if something was slipped into the sherry , if Crumwallis was overheard talking to Frome , it could have been earlier .
22 ‘ It 's because he was found talking to you .
23 I was sitting talking to him — Chet dropped me off there and after a couple of hours Chet came back and was talking to Scotty , and I was thinking , ‘ If I was a music writer , this would be just pure gold ! ’
24 He was sitting talking to a middle-aged , bearded man dressed in a curiously outdated suit which he was wearing shirtless , over a vest .
25 I was sitting talking to the skipper in his cabin when we heard the wheel go hard over .
26 And also , if she came in when I had the triplets it meant that erm you know , she was sitting talking to me when I wanted to be playing with them and taking them out and getting on with doing things with them .
27 The disc-jockey put on Earth , Wind and Fire and Olivia was whisked away by a young columnist from Amritsar ; I was left talking to a rather bulbous Congress MP .
28 De Villiers was left talking to the air , a very thoughtful look on his face as he leaned against the doorway and watched fitzAlan stride across the bailey , towing Isabel behind him .
29 Graham hoped they all realised that just because he was standing talking to Slater , that did n't mean he was gay too .
30 Busacher stared across the room to where Madge was standing talking to the two committee men and the Easter egg .
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