Example sentences of "[indef pn] [be] talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Has someone been talking to you ? |
| 2 | Someone 's talking to the other girls . |
| 3 | you can do it because as you read through your notes as someone 's talking to you in the lecture you will be saying , Yeah of course of course . |
| 4 | Someone was talking about the accident last night in the saloon — word soon gets round on the Island . |
| 5 | I mean somebody 's talking to you about something different . |
| 6 | Imagine yourself being in a crowd where English is being spoken , but suddenly you sense that somebody is talking in another language . |
| 7 | I s I heard something about somebody was talking to me about it a little while ago . |
| 8 | So I said ‘ Well , there 's no need to be frightened of him , he would n't touch you ’ , but you see then somebody was talking to me on the phone last night and said the same thing ‘ We do n't come any more to say prayers as we go through the churchyard because we 're frightened ’ . |
| 9 | Somebody was talking about that . |
| 10 | as a whole one is talking about something like 70 million small mammals and birds killed by domestic cats every year . |
| 11 | But these ‘ less-eligibility ’ arguments are surely at their weakest when applied to food , and virtually untenable when one is talking about people incarcerated for fourteen years or more . |
| 12 | Arguments about absenteeism ( not borne out incidentally by the surviving wage-books ) are hardly relevant when one is talking about piece-work in large firms . |
| 13 | To some extent , it is also intuitively satisfying to suggest that what one is talking about always comes before what one has to say about it . |
| 14 | Worst of all , what if my mind goes completely blank with panic and I ca n't even remember who I am , never mind who 's coming on next and what the hell this one is talking about now ? |
| 15 | If one is talking about second adult rebates , of course it is true that we need to try to simplify the proposals , to overcome the administrative difficulties brought to our attention by local authority associations . |
| 16 | If one adds that delay to the average of about three months before the first visit is made , one is talking about a possible delay of one year and three months before the application starts to receive the attention that is required before it can proceed . |
| 17 | It is easy enough to hold an opinion , but hard work to actually know what one is talking about . |
| 18 | Receiving and writing messages from the spirit world ( or the subconscious , depending on which occultist one is talking to ) . |
| 19 | There are particular signals which enable speakers to get into — and to get out of — conversations , to pass the turn to somebody else , varying according to whom one is talking to and in what circumstances . |
| 20 | She had that feeling of insult often felt at a party when the person one is talking to focuses his gaze on people round about all the time , searching for someone more interesting , powerful or sexy to talk to . |
| 21 | One 's for listening and one 's talking into . |
| 22 | I mean if one was talking about great tits in China , you 'd have to say there are two kinds of great tits . |
| 23 | One was talking in Arabic . |
| 24 | Oh they put it out in to see if anybody 's talking about him do they ? |
| 25 | Did n't know what anybody was talking about ! |
| 26 | Miss Taylor , I think everybody is talking about your appearance but I think you 're one of the greatest actresses in the world and I 've enjoyed a lot of your films . |
| 27 | Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera , the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House . |
| 28 | ‘ We have 1,500 people working for us in this Opera House , and everybody is talking about the ghost . |
| 29 | EVERYBODY is talking about The People-ClubCall 's great British Star of Sport 1992 merit awards . |
| 30 | as if every , she thinks everybody is talking about her . |