Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [be] talking to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compare the level of formality in the above dialogue with that in the following extract from another dialogue where Charles is talking to his father , who happens to be the Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard : |
| 2 | Seeing that George was talking to one of the shepherds , he came forward to join them . |
| 3 | But when he turned to look , she was gone and Marcus was talking to someone else . |
| 4 | Dieter was deep in conversation with Eric and Daphne , and Rose was talking to Janey and Sue . |
| 5 | Yeah I agree with that , if you know somebody well , especially if you know somebody well and if you work with people and you communicate with people you build up trust , and if the communication 's there and people are talking to each other and passing on information , information 's going round and round trust 'll be there , the only time trust disappears is when somebody feels somebody 's keeping something back . |
| 6 | One day I was in the wheelchair and people were talking to John and Jo but ignoring me . |
| 7 | Lula and Claire were talking to her , a sort of duet : Lula was persuasive and chatty , Claire chimed in with sharp ideological comments or scornful snorts : hard cop , soft cop . |
| 8 | Cos Tim 's talking to me as well , and I 'm not being that clever . |
| 9 | And I 'm only putting Helena and Emma were talking to each other on the bus . |
| 10 | Seven o'clock tonight it 's er Radio Nottingham Sport and it 's Colin on tonight , and er John from ten until midnight with a behind the scenes look at This Is Your Life with Roy and John 's talking to Geoff as well who 's er a painter of reproductions of art history . |
| 11 | And , you may remember the incident where , in er th the story , Through the Looking Glass , and Alice is talking to the Queen and er , the Queen says to Alice I am one hundred and one ! |
| 12 | Whilst Hennessy was talking to the soldier outside , Donaldson found a light switch for three unshaded bulbs high in the rafters . |
| 13 | As Maggie 's talking to me I mean you can see like my here I mean I 've got all sorts , as you would use that , those pages for , there 's notes as I 'm going through of things that we were doing and er the university and , and everything like that and there 's other parts of it that , I mean the , the things that you would come back to and elaborate more on |
| 14 | Even the cameraman ignored Milstone 's command of ‘ Roll 'em ’ when Brando was talking to him . |
| 15 | I remember some lines from his play The Tempest , when Prospero is talking to his daughter Miranda . |