Example sentences of "[verb] talking to [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Thus , children in our classroom practice sample spent a high proportion of their time working when they were engaged in tasks which involved talking to the class , talking to the teacher , construction , listening or collaboration .
2 And that involved talking to the client to find out what it was they wanted ?
3 The two claimed they were engaged , since an lranian woman caught talking to a man not related to her by blood or marriage is considered a prostitute .
4 She was seen talking to a man outside the house by a neighbour at 1pm , then vanished without trace .
5 Joanne Fitzgerald , a market researcher from Brentford , Middx , was last seen talking to a man in Dunkin Doughnut in Piccadilly in London 's West End on March 15 .
6 In Birmingham , Alabama , you could be banished from the city for being seen talking to a Communist , which was held to be committing a public nuisance .
7 This was bad luck on Helga , who got drunk with an American soldier and was not allowed to forget it , and on Hildegard , who was taken in by the police when she was seen talking to an ex-convict , but worked in favour of Martin , who made quite a business out of playing cards for money but who was judged ‘ on the whole to be doing no worse than any other boy of his age in his particular Position ’ .
8 The fifteen year old was seen talking to the attacker at the Glue Pot pub in Swindon .
9 She did n't mind talking to the doctor for a few minutes , if that was what he wanted .
10 ‘ We had good people in south London , but people do n't necessarily like talking to the South East .
11 Whitlock caught up with Mobuto but remained discreetly in the background while he finished talking to the Chief of Protocol .
12 But while they were out in the garden during the afternoon they began talking to the man next door who had a motorbike and was leaving for the City on it at seven .
13 Time will be well spent talking to the vendor and neighbours from whom you can learn a great deal as to what crops and livestock have been produced over the years , and with what success .
14 On the third evening , I was sitting drinking alone and started talking to a man who offered to walk me back to the hotel .
15 Maybe without fully recognising it , the government has , in fact , started talking to the ANC — for if there is one thing Mr Mandela has made clear throughout his long incarceration , it is his unwavering allegiance to the movement , whose foremost leader he remains .
16 Just move onto the next one then media trainer I started talking to the training school about doing some training for officers it started with C I D cos you often find that a D S is an acting D I and when we asked them to do an interview about a crime or incident they say we 've not done radio interviews before , so Phil has er supported it and we 're gon na run some sort of training scheme one day courses for them .
17 We then p positioned ourselves further into the room er P C obviously was still with me behind the shield erm once we 'd got ourselves in a in a better position , as far as we were concerned , P C then started talking to the people , erm who were in the bed .
18 There was a hesitation , as if neither of them knew how to start talking to the other .
19 It also advises talking to a number of franchisees in the proposed franchise .
20 And as for yourself , you too should try talking to a friend or relative whom you trust — the chances are that they may already have realised that things are going badly .
21 It might be rubbish , try talking to a farmer occasionally .
22 Try talking to the people at Relate .
23 Most of us went , to savour talking to the man who abhorred women , in the forbidden room with its hard chairs and unopened windows and the heart bleeding over the door .
24 ‘ Probably got talking to a neighbour and forgot all about you .
25 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 .
26 I got talking to a Faber editor I knew slightly .
27 ‘ So I checked into Park West , had dinner , got talking to the barman , said what I was after .
28 Well when you collected the dues er it meant taking it up to the office every Monday and when you got up to the office and got talking to the officials and such like the interest became greater and er it developed from there that er the workers of thought they should have er should have a representative on the committee .
29 For the moment , buying almost anything in east Germany apart from the groceries involves talking to the Treuhandanstalt , the trust body charged with privatising the territory 's 8,000 enterprises .
30 She turned to the stranger who had just finished talking to a mechanic who was now giving her car the once-over .
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