Example sentences of "[verb] talking to the [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 fifteen year old was seen talking to the attacker at the Glue Pot pub in Swindon .
4 She did n't mind talking to the doctor for a few minutes , if that was what he wanted .
5 ‘ We had good people in south London , but people do n't necessarily like talking to the South East .
6 Whitlock caught up with Mobuto but remained discreetly in the background while he finished talking to the Chief of Protocol .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 There was a hesitation , as if neither of them knew how to start talking to the other .
13 Try talking to the people at Relate .
14 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 .
15 ‘ So I checked into Park West , had dinner , got talking to the barman , said what I was after .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 He had just finished talking to the Procurator Fiscal 's office ,
19 De Villiers was left talking to the air , a very thoughtful look on his face as he leaned against the doorway and watched fitzAlan stride across the bailey , towing Isabel behind him .
20 I was sitting talking to the skipper in his cabin when we heard the wheel go hard over .
21 It 's very easy to get talking to the patients .
22 So the people who start talking to the Nüremburg rally sound terrible .
23 Mr Major just grinned and continued talking to the children , from Dulwich College , south London .
24 Our problem with Sir Thomas Beecham was that he usually kept talking to the orchestra while he conducted , and his words of encouragement or complaint came through loudly , especially in the pianissimo passages .
25 Apart from the lack of the most wishful of commands , most of your work will involve talking to the women .
26 Whilst the man and one of the women stayed talking to the householder , the other woman , holding the child , was directed to the toilet .
27 While the man and one of the women stayed talking to the householder , the other woman , still clutching the child was directed to the toilet .
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