Example sentences of "he [verb] talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She realised that , subconsciously , she wanted him to keep talking to her . |
| 2 | I only got to hear him start talking to your Raymond |
| 3 | Papa did n't know what to do , and then he got talking to some of his cronies , and he decided on a Grand Scheme . |
| 4 | He got talking to a man called Mac he met while listening to Vivaldi in Regent 's Park and they agreed to try playing something in one of the Baker Street concourses . |
| 5 | There he got talking to a gaunt girl in an ash-stained black smock who claimed to have read his screenplay and who , over glasses of red wine , and later in the terrible pub , told him he was a weakling and a hypocrite with no notion of the ways of men and women . |
| 6 | Then he got talking about you , asked me if I 'd ever heard of you . ’ |
| 7 | When he arrived he got talking with someone of about his age , who had also run away from home . |
| 8 | He had studied and pondered the case , and was immersed in it ; he tried talking to both Marco and Eddie , and pursues Marco for the promise that could save Eddie 's life . |
| 9 | He stopped talking to me and changed deadlines so they became impossible to meet . |
| 10 | The real mystery about his story is not why two wives refused to make love to him , but how he stopped talking about himself long enough to invite them to bed in the first place . |
| 11 | We 've got to keep him quiet before he starts talking about us to his new friends . ’ |
| 12 | Soon as soon as he starts talking about cars yap yap yap yap yap yap he does n't stop . |
| 13 | Someone like James for , how long did that go on for , for about a month , when he could n't he stop talking about me all the time it was sort of like , you know , I like this , you know what I mean , he was talking |
| 14 | He began talking to her about birdsong , about bird music , really . |
| 15 | He began talking to me : blah blah Killer blah blah Women . |
| 16 | When David Wilson realized what was going on , he began talking to Scotland Yard . |
| 17 | He began talking about the state of the world , saying that he had n't even looked at a newspaper all day , when one was enjoying oneself one too easily forgot everything that was not on the personal level : and yet how desperately the economic situation was deteriorating everywhere week by week , it could not end well , it might lead to anything . |
| 18 | Then , some 16 years later , he began talking about his experiences . |
| 19 | In early 1961 he began talking about the Algerian problem as though it were settled , using terms very similar to those which he later used in his memoirs . |
| 20 | To an annoyed Pétain he began talking about an early major counter-offensive at Verdun . |
| 21 | He began talking in his familiar rapid-fire voice . |
| 22 | Whitlock caught up with Mobuto but remained discreetly in the background while he finished talking to the Chief of Protocol . |
| 23 | He keeps talking about keeping faith with our ‘ traditional ’ market ! |
| 24 | He represents the past and he keeps talking about history because he is history and I said that he 's he represents old fashioned moral values . |
| 25 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 26 | He enjoyed talking about art with Rodrigo and , respecting his resoluteness ( it was said of him that he was the only Sohoite to be arrested for being drunk and orderly ) , asked him to act , with Anthony Lousada , as his executor . |
| 27 | In fact , contrary to what has sometimes been said about his modesty , he enjoyed talking about his work , even when it was no more than work in progress . |
| 28 | That was the way he enjoyed talking about sex , a slightly diluted form of the conversations that were so much part of his connections with the Orton-Halliwell set . |
| 29 | ‘ You 've been acting weird ever since he started talking to me . |
| 30 | and I went out to tell him and he started talking to me for something and when I came back in the fucking milk ! |