Example sentences of "he [vb past] talking [prep] " 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 | Then he got talking about you , asked me if I 'd ever heard of you . ’ |
| 5 | When he arrived he got talking with someone of about his age , who had also run away from home . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He stopped talking to me and changed deadlines so they became impossible to meet . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He began talking to her about birdsong , about bird music , really . |
| 10 | He began talking to me : blah blah Killer blah blah Women . |
| 11 | When David Wilson realized what was going on , he began talking to Scotland Yard . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Then , some 16 years later , he began talking about his experiences . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | To an annoyed Pétain he began talking about an early major counter-offensive at Verdun . |
| 16 | He began talking in his familiar rapid-fire voice . |
| 17 | Whitlock caught up with Mobuto but remained discreetly in the background while he finished talking to the Chief of Protocol . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ You 've been acting weird ever since he started talking to me . |
| 22 | and I went out to tell him and he started talking to me for something and when I came back in the fucking milk ! |
| 23 | He started talking to Nicola er and Nicola 's going oh I love and everything and flipping hell |
| 24 | Sometime after we began work he started talking about the King 's Cross railway station fire that killed so many and about the fact that he was on an underground train going through the station at that time . |
| 25 | Defence Secretary Dick Cheney was so cock-a-hoop about the first day in Somalia he started talking about the pull-out . |
| 26 | MICHAEL Hardcastle was halfway through a story about a struggling Fourth Division football club when he started talking about Mozart ( aged five ) . |
| 27 | He started talking about individuals ' opinion poll ratings . |
| 28 | I went to see my therapist and he kept talking about the bank manager . |
| 29 | He kept talking about wanting to put things on to a sound financial footing , in which case none of us would have been able to afford to live in the club . |
| 30 | He liked talking to them , they said . |