Example sentences of "[was/were] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | On board the steamer the two of them were talking about what would happen to the title if Lord Woodleigh was to die before they had any children , and Lord Woodleigh said — Sven Hjerson 's ears heard it — although now you get the estate . |
| 2 | Anyway , I was dusting in the library on the morning they all left , and I remember Mrs H.-S. and Sir Harry walking into the library , he was looking very suspicious and upset , and both were talking very Low . |
| 3 | Few were talking . |
| 4 | Besides it was Colm they were talking about . |
| 5 | As a mother I warm to someone who observes that so many of the modern theories on childcare ‘ show utter contempt for women 's judgement ’ , and who points out that , when it comes to smacking , ‘ if we were talking about any other activity which was so widespread , people would say this was a method which was tried and tested and obviously worked . |
| 6 | People seem to take the party for granted , as they now do the unity accord , which they were talking gratefully about in November last . |
| 7 | His officials were talking last night to the nuns ' lawyers . |
| 8 | As we were talking the guns started up again , making conversation very difficult . |
| 9 | It was good to be sitting down with a family for dinner even though I did n't understand everything the Frenchman and his wife were talking about . |
| 10 | Those who afterwards blamed Lambeth 1958 for platitudes did not know what they were talking about . |
| 11 | The other , more disturbing reading is that the Shakespearian phrases are made appropriate because the present situation reinterprets them in such a way that we are forced to wonder if a Burbank-Volupine situation was not just the sort of thing they were talking about all along . |
| 12 | So if we were talking about the Middle Ages we had Gregorian chants , or if we were doing the First World War we had First-world-war songs . |
| 13 | Nathan turned the conversation to the bear trap in the museum , asking Odd-Knut if he had seen it , and soon we were talking about the killing of film on seal killing had been shown , an indictment of the Norwegian sealers . |
| 14 | telephone conversation took place , as if two deaf people were talking to each other on a rowdy main road , but fragments of conversation filtered through as Frau Nordern repeated what Karl , presumably , was saying . |
| 15 | He could bring people together who would not under normal circumstances converse ; and once they were talking , of course , there was hope . |
| 16 | ‘ We were talking about the Battle of Jutland . |
| 17 | ‘ We were talking shop ; it was shop-talk , not gossip . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ If we were talking about tuition fees , not maintenance , then talking about serious disincentives would carry a great deal of weight , ’ he said . |
| 19 | You were talking about life 's punishments just now , and maybe the fact that love is doomed from the off is one of them . |
| 20 | They were talking of the developed countries , of course , perhaps with North America mainly in mind . |
| 21 | He said the police were talking to everyone Angie had seen in the two weeks before she … well … vanished , and so far had come up with nothing . |
| 22 | They had checked Angela 's diary for the two weeks before she had gone missing and were talking to everyone in it . ’ |
| 23 | They were sitting on the terrace outside her curved stables-cottage , watching the sun go down over Capability Brown 's vista , uninterrupted because of the ha-ha ( however did it get that name ? ) — and they were talking , over glasses of wine , about poetry . |
| 24 | They were talking about him , he was sure of that . |
| 25 | And when he pointed out that these were Irish , not British Trade unions they were talking about , it was sadly admitted that the English disease had poisoned the minds of many impressionable Irish trade unionists and that it would of course take time entirely to eradicate malign English influences from the land of Saints and Scholars . |
| 26 | We were talking about Andrew coming home for the weekend and having the Bunkers round for drinks . |
| 27 | The gun lay on the covers , where she had put it down while they were talking . |
| 28 | ‘ But if I tell you , ’ Harriet Shakespeare said , as though she were talking to an idiot , ‘ I 'm putting Liam 's life in worse danger . |
| 29 | The bus trundled out into the Avenida Generalissimo Franco , a name that made my heart sink — again the sharp , imperious police whistle — faces looking in on us from outside , where the slow-moving crowds were talking and laughing . |
| 30 | And all the time , in this turmoil of sexual ambiguities , we were talking about words , about poetry . |