Example sentences of "be [vb pp] talking to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The first sign of madness , ’ joke people who have been caught talking to themselves , confident of course that it is not . |
| 2 | ‘ You 've made sure that I am seen talking to you at the time of this man 's arrest in a public place . |
| 3 | Mr Rowse refused to see Rhoda any more because she 'd been seen talking to Young Catholics Against Witchcraft . |
| 4 | Er so much so , you see that er er er people who did have employment in the industry would not , would not be seen talking to left-wing Labour party people , or members of the Communist party , because they readily understood , you know , that here was a risk that they were running , whereby they may indeed lo er er lose their employment . |
| 5 | But I did n't want to be seen talking to her in the office , so I should have to wait until she got home . |
| 6 | Why should n't I be seen talking to an old mate , eh ? ’ |
| 7 | He 's just as likely to be found talking to a six-strong student society in Bangor as addressing 500 top Earth scientists in Washington ; he will have a drink with ( and on ) me just as readily ( or so he makes it appear ) as he will have lunch with ( and no doubt on ) the director of the US National Science Foundation ; if he 's not corresponding with some editor over some esoteric point of science , he 's trying to persuade the high-ups at the European Space Agency to do something adventurous in planetology for a change . |
| 8 | We are left talking to each other almost as if we had met before . |
| 9 | And you were seen talking to your pal Jordan who is on the case . |
| 10 | In Birmingham , Alabama , you could be banished from the city for being seen talking to a Communist , which was held to be committing a public nuisance . |
| 11 | While O'Neill would have shared some of those views , he was more concerned with the future than with the past and he deliberately set about ending Ulster 's ‘ petty apartheid ’ by visiting Catholic schools ( no previous Ulster premier had ever set foot in one ) , being photographed talking to priests and nuns , and meeting a cardinal . |
| 12 | She 's stopped talking to me . |
| 13 | ‘ Okay , ’ I say , when Frank 's finished talking to me as though I 'm a Sun reader . |
| 14 | Even Nazi Who Escaped justice At Nuremberg , at number 42 , was seen talking to people in a high , jovial voice , that only increased his resemblance to a Gestapo officer . |
| 15 | This was bad luck on Helga , who got drunk with an American soldier and was not allowed to forget it , and on Hildegard , who was taken in by the police when she was seen talking to an ex-convict , but worked in favour of Martin , who made quite a business out of playing cards for money but who was judged ‘ on the whole to be doing no worse than any other boy of his age in his particular Position ’ . |
| 16 | She was seen talking to a man outside the house by a neighbour at 1pm , then vanished without trace . |
| 17 | The fifteen year old was seen talking to the attacker at the Glue Pot pub in Swindon . |
| 18 | But if something was slipped into the sherry , if Crumwallis was overheard talking to Frome , it could have been earlier . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's because he was found talking to you . |
| 20 | The disc-jockey put on Earth , Wind and Fire and Olivia was whisked away by a young columnist from Amritsar ; I was left talking to a rather bulbous Congress MP . |
| 21 | De Villiers was left talking to the air , a very thoughtful look on his face as he leaned against the doorway and watched fitzAlan stride across the bailey , towing Isabel behind him . |