Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [be] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the Brazilian government 's own figures , two-thirds of the population now suffers from some degree of malnutrition and in the north-east nutritionists are talking about an epidemic of dwarfism . |
| 2 | The following is an extract of conversation in which an experienced neighbourhood constable is talking while out on his beat about discretion , in which its exercise is linked to both the development of local knowledge and the possession of interactive skills : |
| 3 | It was encouraging to receive a letter from the Hastings Urban Conservation project a few months later saying , ‘ The Borough Council are talking in positive terms about the future of the building … |
| 4 | Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's Ross Technology Inc microprocessor unit is talking to Intel Corp about applying HyperSparc 's cache controller and memory management and multiprocessor technologies to the P6 chip — follow-on to the Pentium in the iAPX-86 family , Electronic News reports . |
| 5 | Opposite , number 47 in huge green wellingtons and baseball cap was talking to number 60 . |
| 6 | Is this the girl Ma was talking about ? |
| 7 | Here the whole of the site was lightly cordoned off , and one of the Park Attendants was talking to ( the newly promoted ) Sergeant Dixon as Morse and Lewis moved alongside . |
| 8 | ‘ The fee Glentoran are talking about is acceptable to us . ’ |
| 9 | One of the loudspeaker voices was talking , a huge , curiously calm voice : ‘ Do not leave your homes . |
| 10 | In terms of a planning process Anne was talking about , you 'll have to forgive me for being relatively new to Oxfordshire and coming from an area where we had a planning system which was largely the one I was describing , and the planning role that I saw I wanted to develop was very much already mentioned which was actually going round to small groups of people , to the local caring groups on a much more informal basis , and getting their contribution about that and then feeding it back into the system , which you say is there in a sense . |
| 11 | I mean , in a much more , erm , a le a less severe example , but we 're having a Road Safety Week , at school , this week , erm , and it was my class 's turn , yesterday afternoon , so I was just there keeping a watching brief with my my children while the , road safety representative was talking to them , and she put them us through the usual hoops of erm , did any of them play on the roadside un unattended . |
| 12 | But if the pageboy William is talking , making noises , or turning paper napkins into darts , you could say , ‘ All the children have been as good as they could be , even little William ! ’ |
| 13 | Just a minute mummy 's talking to me . |
| 14 | The other day Christopher was talking talking |
| 15 | I believe in running a department where sales and publicity people are talking to each other all the time . |
| 16 | His economics minister is talking of currency union between the two Germanies by July . |
| 17 | Of course people are talking pretty big at the moment but half of them are as ready to drop as I am . ’ |
| 18 | and like what accent people are talking at |
| 19 | The signals were at caution and the train crew were talking on the level-crossing . |
| 20 | The TV constantly inserts its images and thoughts into our minds and some people come to feel that the news reader is talking directly to them . |
| 21 | It may be that , for participant S , the above expression represents the best way of summarising what speaker R was talking about , as evidenced by her response . |
| 22 | It was an enraging affectation , worthy of an Oxford undergraduate , especially as Charlie might do it in the middle of a conversation , as he had done recently at a college gig : the Union President was talking to him when Charlie 's hands reached into his side pocket , the book was extracted and opened , and the man 's eyes popped in disbelief as Charlie imbibed a beakerful of the warm South . |
| 23 | People from Air Canada were talking about . |
| 24 | Page 19 Car link : American car maker Chrysler is talking to Mitsubishi of Japan about setting up manufacturing plants in Europe . |
| 25 | Unlike the hearer ( B ) in extract ( 12 ) , however , speaker C appears to be able to recognise speaker D 's alternative topic and accepts what she thinks speaker D is talking about as ‘ what we 're talking about ’ , for a few turns . |
| 26 | form tutors are talking |
| 27 | Down in the kitchen , a radio voice was talking at Dad while he got the tea ready . |
| 28 | Erm but I hope you because the panel could actually look at this in , in some detail , erm not just one meeting if necessary , I mean , it could go over two or more er meetings and the other thing Michael was talking about , you know , where the big sites , where should they be . |
| 29 | He was not in the clubhouse , where the Lord Lieutenant was on the telephone to Downing Street , nor at the police emergency centre , where the Chief Constable was talking to the duty officer in the Cabinet Office Briefing Room . |
| 30 | I can hardly send her out for sandwiches , and from the way Victor was talking this could be our last proper meal together . |