Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] talking to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Human possums avoid conflict by agreeing with whichever side is talking to them at the time . |
| 2 | Granddad 's talking to you |
| 3 | Just a minute mummy 's talking to me . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Gurder was talking to the Thing in a low voice . |
| 6 | while the editor is talking to us . |
| 7 | The guard was talking to Evans as Morgan glared at the screen , then took out a cigar and clamped his teeth on it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As he said this , he noticed that Cowslip had joined them and that Strawberry was talking to him quietly . |
| 10 | John at teatime is talking to veteran D J Paul about the best records of all time and musician Edward who 's playing at the Old Vic tonight , he 's on as well . |
| 11 | The Archon was talking to his daughter . |
| 12 | The teacher was talking to the class . |
| 13 | The voice of Mrs Plant called out from behind a lighted upstairs window , wanting to know whom her husband was talking to . |
| 14 | ‘ We got rid of an old woman and replaced him with a younger one , ’ Fergus said , mouth turned down at the corners , staring over his whisky tumbler and across the room to where his wife was talking to Antonia . |
| 15 | As Meredith Tax says , ‘ Feminist and left-wing writing is talking to itself most of the time . ’ |
| 16 | Yes , well , as a matter of fact er , the moderator was talking to me on the telephone |
| 17 | Outside a mad woman was talking to herself : she wore several coats and had a troubled , concentrated expression . |
| 18 | Pat said , " I gather Bert thinks this comrade the one Jasper was talking to at Melstead may have some useful leads . " |
| 19 | This is not the case at a rehearsal where the players are dressed casually , people come and go , some members of the orchestra are talking to one another , while others are sitting drinking coffee , tea ( or perhaps even soup ) . |
| 20 | The firm is talking to Orion Satellite Corporation , in Washington DC , about linking up to the US via two satellites which the American firm plans to station above the Atlantic in 1986 and 1987 . |
| 21 | You should however show something of the audience , particularly in the early stages of the lecture , otherwise someone viewing the recording has no idea who the speaker is talking to . |
| 22 | Lamond was talking to some people and then as he was leaving he came by me and said , ‘ But , you know , it was n't all as beautiful as you might imagine ! ’ |
| 23 | Upstairs another SS man was talking to my mother , who seemed very calm . |
| 24 | and there 's this woman called Lassie , and this , this other man was talking to er this other man and he goes why 'd you call that woman Lassie ? |
| 25 | he broke in rails because some silly man was talking to him in Wales ! |
| 26 | Zeinab was talking to a tall , thin youth who seemed rather overwhelmed by her presence . |
| 27 | Mike , a Cambridge undergraduate who is working on a kibbutz is talking to the Jewish girl Gila and explaining why he left university to end up in Israel . |
| 28 | The Thing was talking to them . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ At Reading , ’ recounts John , ‘ the girl from the Clothes Show was talking to us . |