Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] talking to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was sitting talking to him — Chet dropped me off there and after a couple of hours Chet came back and was talking to Scotty , and I was thinking , ‘ If I was a music writer , this would be just pure gold ! ’ |
| 2 | I was sitting talking to the skipper in his cabin when we heard the wheel go hard over . |
| 3 | The disc-jockey put on Earth , Wind and Fire and Olivia was whisked away by a young columnist from Amritsar ; I was left talking to a rather bulbous Congress MP . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | She was seen talking to a man outside the house by a neighbour at 1pm , then vanished without trace . |
| 6 | Art raised his eyes to the receiving desk , she was standing she was standing talking to a young man . |
| 7 | And also , if she came in when I had the triplets it meant that erm you know , she was sitting talking to me when I wanted to be playing with them and taking them out and getting on with doing things with them . |
| 8 | He was sitting talking to a middle-aged , bearded man dressed in a curiously outdated suit which he was wearing shirtless , over a vest . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's because he was found talking to you . |
| 10 | Graham hoped they all realised that just because he was standing talking to Slater , that did n't mean he was gay too . |