Example sentences of "and [verb] talk to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well when you collected the dues er it meant taking it up to the office every Monday and when you got up to the office and got talking to the officials and such like the interest became greater and er it developed from there that er the workers of thought they should have er should have a representative on the committee . |
| 2 | They believe he 's carried out several sex attacks in one town , and want to talk to other victims who may have been too scared to come forward . |
| 3 | Mo agreed that even politicians could not please everybody and moved to talk to 31-year-old Sandra Gordon-Morgan , a part-time dressmaking teacher who lost her job when the local authority cut its adult education budget . |
| 4 | and then suddenly from the other end there 's this like , cos we , it 's like a big room , it 's the other end of the room all the dealers there , and er anyway and er and suddenly I hear , and then someone 's like saying talking , they 're all , somebody 's like mi microphone and starts talking to them about er what 's happening in the market , things like that blah blah blah blah blah , and this means blah blah blah blah so watch out for blah blah blah and I thought it 's like living in a different world , it 's amazing . |
| 5 | As Mum turned the trolley into the breakfast cereal aisle she saw Linda Paterson 's Mum and stopped to talk to her . |
| 6 | She went into the huffs and stopped talking to me . |
| 7 | He looked for her and came to talk to her at every possible moment , at milking , butter-making , cheese-making , among chickens and among pigs . |
| 8 | He compounded this appalling error of judgement by standing up to applaud the winners , a misguided attempt at gallantry which resulted in me trying to run out of the stadium and refusing to talk to him all the way home . |
| 9 | ‘ They could n't , surely , have been arguing about him repeatedly popping up and wanting to talk to her . |
| 10 | Okay , we 'll come back and pick up with you again , if we may , in a few moments time , but I wanted to change tack once more and go back to the telephones , and waiting to talk to us now is Alan Spong , he 's a director of Lunn Poly , one of the country 's leading travel agents . |
| 11 | ‘ Excuse me a moment , ’ Hamish said to the others , and turned to talk to him . |
| 12 | He turned away from her impatiently , and began talking to Nicole , both of them gesticulating , their voices overlapping in their haste to finish what they were saying . |
| 13 | She crashed out a few chords and started to talk to us in a different voice through her ‘ control ’ , who was ( of course ) , a Red Indian — White Cloud or Black Feet or something like that . |
| 14 | On the third evening , I was sitting drinking alone and started talking to a man who offered to walk me back to the hotel . |
| 15 | One day my mum sat me on the bed and started talking to me . |
| 16 | ‘ I met the lads and started talking to Ferg . |
| 17 | and Mark , Mark pulled in , went to Ch went to the Paki shop , come out and started talking to us . |
| 18 | I came up to her and started talking to her , yeah , and then Marsha goes to Gemma like that , it 's like |
| 19 | 14 take out the perch and try to talk to her but she ignores me. 15 She drinks water . |
| 20 | Two children climb down into the hole ( having first borrowed a rope ladder ! ) and try to talk to the creature . |
| 21 | But I think she understood us and acquired talking to ourselves in Welsh you know . |
| 22 | He just rolled neatly over on his side and commenced talking to the Big Man . |
| 23 | He changed into his tracksuit when she had gone and went to talk to his doctors . |
| 24 | Anna Harland left the prison and went to talk to the police . |
| 25 | Do n't use too many transparencies and do talk to the audience and not to the screen . |
| 26 | Now , if you 've got nowhere else , erm , at the bottom end of the door to fit it , that 's fine , but as a matter of a preference , Crime Prevention like to see them fitted a third of the way up the door , that is where our thieves put the boot in , and thieves will work to pressure points , to leverage points they come equipped , or most of them do n't come equipped , because obviously if they 're walking along the street and a police officer sees them , you know , pull them over and start to talk to them , most of them will actually er use the tools from the back garden or or things they find lying around to help themselves in . |
| 27 | He likes that one nan , what if you , pick up the phone and dial and start talking to somebody he sits there and he 's in fits of laughter , he loves it . |
| 28 | When he sees me he pointedly turns away and tries to talk to someone else . |
| 29 | I could not have been more bemused if characters from books had come up and started talking to me . |
| 30 | On East Brooklyn , the walking people , who had lost more in this war than most , wandered gaily with their families and paused to talk to one another . |