Example sentences of "[prep] [be] talking to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Union Assurance de Paris , which has 19.2 per cent , is said to be talking to Sun 's other big shareholder , the South African controlled Trans-Atlantic Holdings . |
| 2 | BSB is also believed to be talking to Ford in the UK about providing communications with its dealers and to the Financial Times about a business service for large companies . |
| 3 | Gazzer seemed to be talking to himself , not to Marie but , suddenly , he looked straight into her face and said : ‘ Did you tell him where she lived , like you told him about the money ? ’ |
| 4 | He would clearly have preferred to be talking to Fiona on his other side , but the award was having to be paid for with politeness . |
| 5 | Those that are still up do at least seem to be talking to each other ! |
| 6 | She seemed to be talking to herself as she gazed into the fire . |
| 7 | If he walked in or the girl came to clean the grate , she 'd pretend to be talking to a tradesman : ‘ It really was more fat than lean . |
| 8 | It is , however , now committed to find its own end-user business , and is thought to be talking to Olivetti & Co SpA . |
| 9 | He seemed to be talking to himself , and as he drew level he glanced suddenly in her direction . |
| 10 | All the same , you are not going to be talking to everyone out there . |
| 11 | ‘ But who am I supposed to be talking to ? ’ |
| 12 | He seemed to be talking to himself . |
| 13 | I do n't want to be talking to you , thought Penelope desperately , trying to appear interested in what Robina Fairfax was saying about a place in West London where she had bought a piece of statuary for her garden at a very reasonable price . |
| 14 | For a start , she ought to be talking to Adam , not spilling out her troubles to you . ’ |
| 15 | Erm , and I 'm going to be talking to you this morning about advocacy . |
| 16 | Well I would expect that the Prime Minister would , I think this nonsense that is behind all this is that because I am talking to Gerry Adams , they do n't want to be seen to be talking to me because it looks this fingerprint argument |
| 17 | Tony is er Professor of Economics at Cambridge and is a world renowned luminary in economic circles and er he 's , he 's here for the next week as a special professor and er is giving a number of lectures er most of which are open to , to all , to all students and he is a very famous economist , very clever chap you know if you can get to see him I , I 'd reco I 'd recommend it erm presuma there may be a sort of programme of his visit stuck up on the student notice boards erm , if there is n't er he 's giving a , a lecture tomorrow two o'clock in B seventy four and that 's , that 's if , he is going to be talking to the M A students er taking Economic Development and Policy Analysis and his topic there is comparing income inequality and poverty in Europe erm so if you , you know , if you are free tomorrow at two it just might be interesting to go along to , feel free to go to B seventy four tomorrow at two o'clock . |
| 18 | I would to our officers they should not grant another contract to Borough Council until they start to use the correct machines for doing the work and I hope that that message now has got across to the cou county surveyor and he really ought to be talking to Borough Council to find out what they 're doing about it . |
| 19 | So going to be talking to wo n't you ? . actually it does n't matter because it 's |
| 20 | To think they have to be talking to me because I 'm the host of the party , so I 've got to go around and talk to everybody |