Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] was talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Führer was talking to the other man in a low voice and totally ignored them as he passed and descended the stairs at the other end of the passage . |
| 2 | The stranger was talking , the voice was metallic and occasionally high : The tone , Flavia thought she was able to discern , was worldly : a worldly French voice . |
| 3 | The stranger was talking with vivacity ; she was eating little and without attention ; her wine-glasses were untouched . |
| 4 | The Tibetan was talking in loud self-congratulatory tones about the religious statues and paintings that he 'd smuggled across the border and sold in India ; how time and again he 'd outwitted the border police , with silver , musk and contraband of every sort . |
| 5 | The guard was talking to Evans as Morgan glared at the screen , then took out a cigar and clamped his teeth on it . |
| 6 | The boy was talking riddles . |
| 7 | The teacher was talking to the class . |
| 8 | In December , you hear people say , the Community was talking loftily about putting together a common European foreign and security policy ; but when the war started in January , they all went their separate ways . |
| 9 | The Archon was talking to his daughter . |
| 10 | Two weeks ago , the rector was talking about the unity of the body of Christ in the church ; as he spoke , he drew attention to a review of a new book by the Regius professor of theology at Oxford . |
| 11 | The tourist was talking about his homeland . |
| 12 | Below is an extract from the field notes , where the field-worker was talking with two plain-clothes men : |
| 13 | He could n't understand what the lecturer was talking about because he knew nothing about accounts . |
| 14 | She knew very well what the dog was talking about . |
| 15 | Within moments , the eyelids flicked open , and the woman was talking normally and trying to sit up . |
| 16 | Yes , well , as a matter of fact er , the moderator was talking to me on the telephone |
| 17 | So when the speaker was talking rapidly with a lot of energy she would listen with obvious interest , excitement and quick responses . |
| 18 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
| 19 | It was clear to her that something was wrong — something beyond what the voice was talking about . |
| 20 | Timothy smiled , not knowing what the man was talking about . |
| 21 | He became aware that the radio was talking about Michael Banks . |
| 22 | Nicky Campbell on Sunday on the radio was talking about |
| 23 | The Thing was talking to them . |
| 24 | ‘ If the Thing was talking we could tell Pion you can get awfully tired of lizard , in time , ’ said Angalo . |
| 25 | Mum , ’ Juliet looked into her mother 's face , ‘ I was in the ward on Tuesday morning while the doctor was talking to you . |
| 26 | A dumb-waiter would be … " the apprentice chef with the ladle was talking to the under-cook now , who also tasted the ladle 's contents and nodded , while the seneschal said , Impersonal . " |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The grocer was talking ten to the dozen as he served his Mars bars , his detergent , his potatoes . |
| 29 | The Officer was talking to two gunners who appeared to be Polish judging by their accents . |
| 30 | The guy was talking to Pete , he thought he could , he develop , he could develop for coarse fishing |