Example sentences of "a [noun] [be] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Someone in a bar was talking about Ardakke in connection with Gharr the Gherpotean ’ . |
| 2 | When I returned to the drawing room , a clergyman was talking about the hardships being suffered by children in Berlin . |
| 3 | That is , attempting to provide an account of what a person is talking about is always built on an assumption that we know why that person says what he says . |
| 4 | Rule of Life No. 37 : When a policeman 's talking , shut up . |
| 5 | His no-good slob of a kid was talking of having forty thousand dollars . |
| 6 | ‘ Action ’ , in the sense used in this chapter , is what a geneticist is talking about when he mentions the ‘ phenotypic effect ’ of a gene . |
| 7 | Yet our interpretation of what a speaker is talking about is inevitably based on how he structures what he is saying . |
| 8 | Mike , a Cambridge undergraduate who is working on a kibbutz is talking to the Jewish girl Gila and explaining why he left university to end up in Israel . |
| 9 | A comrade is talking to you one moment and is gone the next , either blasted beyond recognition or seriously wounded . |
| 10 | In the first , a canvasser is talking to a farmer 's wife . |
| 11 | If you feel a client is talking crudely , you hake not yet come to terms with your own feeling that there is something crude about sex . |