Example sentences of "they 're talking to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Brian , ’ Mr Sherwood calls , ‘ they 're talking to you . ’ |
| 2 | These guys are nudging each other , they go up to her , the music changes , and they 're talking to her , and she says no or whatever , and then the last guy walks up to her , the woman turns round , and she 's been replaced by someone wearing the same dress but she 's really fat . |
| 3 | Lots of people turn off as soon as the person they 're talking to reveals an interest in or opinion on something they dislike or disagree with . |
| 4 | ‘ They 're talking to you , are they ? ’ |
| 5 | They 're going to be confused yes , very confused , I mean on the football pitch you usually get the trainer run man and they 're talking to the footballer and it 's looking at them all the time and he will ask questions , erm what 's your name ? |
| 6 | Some are completely on another plateau , you know , they 're just not in the real world ; they wander round and do n't make eye-contact unless they 're talking to you ; they just look at the ceiling all the time when they 're lecturing . |
| 7 | I think when somebody teaches it they teach it in the premise that everybody they 're talking to is heterosexual . |
| 8 | Er and then to contrast this you 've got like the feminist view er well it 's a just reconstruct a lot of these ideas instead of saying that women 's talk was diffident they said it was more considerate , and so the idea that quite often A lot of the features that are in this conversation are n't because women want to be deferential to the men they 're talking to , it 's that they actually want to show some consideration to the turn-taking or the conversational style that 's going on . |
| 9 | Er it sort of goes in four ways I mean the fathers talk more directly than the mothers whether or not it 's a boy or a girl they 're talking to . |
| 10 | But they 're going to say , if they 're talking to Liz , presumably the trainer as well as a person , you know , what |
| 11 | Sit down and they , they swear to me when they 're talking to me and what have you , you know , but we can go into them without appointments , you know , we can work them in between . |
| 12 | ‘ You can see it in their eyes when they 're talking to you . |
| 13 | Turn your back they 're talking to you say they 've been nasty and then they come back and talk to you . |
| 14 | of tricking people into believing sort of things that are n't true , which they 're saying that er they 're talking to deceased people like people said they talked to er Elvis Presley |
| 15 | right , and I mean they , they 're talking to you right and all the time they 're like this themselves like . |
| 16 | though depending on who they 're talking to , you know . |
| 17 | I mean biologists , when they 're talking to one another , are , by and large , talking about Darwin and that 's what I 've been trying to do . |