Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [be] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone in my hairdressers were talking about it . |
| 2 | my mum was talking to Robin |
| 3 | Yeah well my husband 's talking about getting one of those because I mean after I did n't tell him all the details |
| 4 | My friends are talking |
| 5 | Well , oh my mum 's having such a fit about like on our er , exam leads like er she goes to me this morning , like my da , her and my dad were talking about it she is saying , and she 'll do it ! |
| 6 | ‘ My dad was talking to a German and he said : ‘ I ran out of petrol near Maastricht . ’ |
| 7 | My mother was talking about my niece who had chicken-pox when Thomas , four , suddenly asked : ‘ Nanna , does that mean Samantha can lay eggs ? ’ |
| 8 | Her agent was talking somewhere on the air waves . |
| 9 | The voice of Mrs Plant called out from behind a lighted upstairs window , wanting to know whom her husband was talking to . |
| 10 | His sister , Linda Lee , who called at the house , said her children were talking about someone who had been killed on the railway line . |
| 11 | Joanne and her mother were talking on Joanne 's doorstep . |
| 12 | For a moment Erika was at a loss as to whom her mother was talking about , then it dawned on her . |
| 13 | Her mother was talking to the director as though nothing had happened . |
| 14 | His officials were talking last night to the nuns ' lawyers . |
| 15 | His officials were talking about " the man who came to dinner " and making it clear that he would just have to go before the Islamic summit that was scheduled to meet in Morocco in April . |
| 16 | His friend was talking rubbish . |
| 17 | It was good to be sitting down with a family for dinner even though I did n't understand everything the Frenchman and his wife were talking about . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | In high spirits , his father was talking about the immense advances made in forensic science in recent years . |
| 20 | Albert asked him once if he did n't find it agonizingly painful on the calves , especially in the case of an attempt to stop , but the child obviously did n't know what his father was talking about . |
| 21 | ‘ He bleats that his critics are talking the country down . |
| 22 | DIA vice president Steve Jones — also managing director of UK Unix connectivity software specialist , JSB Computer Systems Ltd , Macclesfield — says his company is talking to DEC about support under VMS . |
| 23 | His mother was talking to the police at the time , but she insisted on dressing him herself , and told everyone not to touch him . |
| 24 | No I did n't say that , I said your mum was talking to you . |