Example sentences of "he [verb] talking to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He stopped talking to me and changed deadlines so they became impossible to meet . |
| 6 | He began talking to her about birdsong , about bird music , really . |
| 7 | He began talking to me : blah blah Killer blah blah Women . |
| 8 | When David Wilson realized what was going on , he began talking to Scotland Yard . |
| 9 | Whitlock caught up with Mobuto but remained discreetly in the background while he finished talking to the Chief of Protocol . |
| 10 | 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 . " |
| 11 | ‘ You 've been acting weird ever since he started talking to me . |
| 12 | and I went out to tell him and he started talking to me for something and when I came back in the fucking milk ! |
| 13 | He started talking to Nicola er and Nicola 's going oh I love and everything and flipping hell |
| 14 | He liked talking to them , they said . |
| 15 | he stops talking to , stops to talk to her I said and obviously if the meat is n't coming out the box , the meat is n't coming out of the box ! |