Example sentences of "[num] [noun] talking to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will my right hon. Friend and his Department therefore spend a great deal of time in the next six months talking to our friends the Portuguese through the Portuguese presidency , so that they may adopt a sensible policy which we can then follow ? |
| 2 | After the service she spent ten minutes talking to war veterans . |
| 3 | ‘ Maybe she 's waiting to ring later , ’ Shirley said feebly , as a tide of rage with Liz , far away in distant London , washed through her : too absorbed in her own life , too selfish even to spend five minutes talking to her own mother . |
| 4 | Once inside , Princess Diana spent 40 minutes talking to the patients , one of whom had sadly died only hours before the Princess arrived . |
| 5 | He and the Beeb 's head of drama Peter Cregeen spent two hours talking to executive producer Verity Lambert and staff on the set . |
| 6 | For example , at the next table at the Exmoor Forest Hotel , he had overheard two people talking to each other , a ‘ very well bred looking old man with a dry peevish voice whom I took to be mentally deranged and a woman who was either his daughter or his nurse ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ You could hear the two men talking to each other , saying ‘ Give her another one … do n't give it to her too quickly … now help her along ’ , then awful smothering sounds . ’ |
| 8 | We were on the moors , close to Wuthering Heights , when I caught sight of two men talking to her . |