Example sentences of "they [was/were] talking to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were talking to each other loudly as if to keep lurking wood-spirits at bay , and I did vividly remember that teenage spooky feeling of being alone in wild woodland and at the mercy of supernatural eyes . |
| 2 | Every now and again people would step neatly aside while the person they were talking to was sick on the floor . |
| 3 | As Pathfinders they had the extra advantage of being able to use all the latest radar equipment to enable them to see through the layers of cloud , and when they were talking to Met Officers we would hear mysterious references to ‘ Gee ’ and ‘ H2S ’ . |
| 4 | Few people , I discovered , looked directly at a waiter 's eyes , even when they were talking to him . |
| 5 | Have I remembered to do that ? ) sometimes kindly people try so hard to get their message across that one would think that they were talking to a mentally backward five-year-old ! |
| 6 | Any systematic variation must have been the result of the reaction of passers-by to the apparent social class of the person they were talking to , since all other variables were held constant . |
| 7 | They were talking to Perks , the Porter , who was on the other side of the line . |
| 8 | They were talking to a Coptic family , parents and two children . |
| 9 | I was n't sure if they were talking to me or not . |
| 10 | when they were talking to her . |
| 11 | Oh , did you turn it on when they were talking to you ? |
| 12 | Thought it was only a day , and they were talking to somebody else on the ferry who said they did this trip every year did n't they ? |
| 13 | Anyway , er they were talking to her , they explained about that money |