Example sentences of "[verb] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've enjoyed talking to you . |
| 2 | I 've always enjoyed talking and arguing since I was a kid . |
| 3 | er , this had that night er but , one , in one bit it said he said that night they di fa found that Melissico was n't enjoyed talking to them long af till long after the stars came out . |
| 4 | But Svidrigailov ignores the question and starts talking about politics . |
| 5 | Everyone starts talking at once — some of them shouting and others just laughing . |
| 6 | ‘ Anyone who starts talking about reviewing territorial frontiers is consciously moving towards confrontation , and incidentally , not only with local significance , ’ he warned . |
| 7 | If she starts talking about sexual matters they may jump in hastily , saying , ‘ Do n't talk about that ’ without explaining why they are disturbed by what she has said . |
| 8 | ‘ So if somebody starts talking about racism when they see our work , that 's very good . |
| 9 | These are passages where the author suddenly starts talking about what ‘ we did ’ . |
| 10 | When Pino starts talking about his ideal woman we know we 're more likely in a fantasy land than a green ginger one . ’ |
| 11 | We 've got to keep him quiet before he starts talking about us to his new friends . ’ |
| 12 | If anyone starts talking about sex or looking at the Indian women , someone always says , ‘ Riddled with diseases I 'm sure . ’ |
| 13 | When we go to see if the bathroom is free , a young guy I ai n't seen before starts talking in the corridor . |
| 14 | Erm at the bottom of the page then , George starts talking about Martha , Martha 's father and it gets very funny this bit , very naughty . |
| 15 | He then starts talking about Martha 's father , who was not going to die apparently . |
| 16 | I knew I 'd have to sit on my hands before I came here , but what if some sex offender starts talking about this or that ? |
| 17 | Having apparently made a good case ( to wit , the UK now spends nearly two per cent less per head on education than in 1980 ) it starts talking about education . |
| 18 | WHEN THE PLANT OPERATOR STARTS talking about ‘ zero defects ’ , the price of non-conformance' and ‘ corrective action teams . ’ |
| 19 | and then suddenly from the other end there 's this like , cos we , it 's like a big room , it 's the other end of the room all the dealers there , and er anyway and er and suddenly I hear , and then someone 's like saying talking , they 're all , somebody 's like mi microphone and starts talking to them about er what 's happening in the market , things like that blah blah blah blah blah , and this means blah blah blah blah so watch out for blah blah blah and I thought it 's like living in a different world , it 's amazing . |
| 20 | I know but if she s she starts talking she never bloody stops . |
| 21 | Soon as soon as he starts talking about cars yap yap yap yap yap yap he does n't stop . |
| 22 | She made a very positive effort to be the right kind of person to be around — in other words , she was not a liability , she was an asset , an extremely good cook and a very good organiser , and having discovered that we both went to the same school in Switzerland where French was the main language taught , we would enjoy talking to each other in French , much to the annoyance of David who could n't understand the language . ’ |
| 23 | You may enjoy talking but this does not make you a wizard at verbal presentations . |
| 24 | I do n't enjoy talking about Susan much . |
| 25 | The local stone here is gritstone , much of it brought down I suspect from the quarries on the flanks of Penhill , and on a summer 's evening , when the children are playing on the swings and people are sat talking quietly in the dying sunlight outside the pub while an old dog wanders across the green sniffing his way towards the children , then , when every building is tinted with amber and the gardens are heavy with blooms , it could well be said to be " t'prattiest lal spot i't'Dales " . |
| 26 | We must have sat talking for nearly fifteen minutes , in this absurd stilted way . |
| 27 | SLEEP TALKING |
| 28 | ‘ The first sign of madness , ’ joke people who have been caught talking to themselves , confident of course that it is not . |
| 29 | He tried talking but the teachers would n't listen and thought he was repeating words like a parrot or just being cheeky . |
| 30 | Sometimes she tried talking to him about India , with a genuine impulse to do what she could . |